Making up the fast for the one who left it in her youth
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The questioner:
I have one question, please, Shaykh. My wife was very young, perhaps fifteen years old, and her mother died, and her father had no mahram (relative one may not marry) and he used to send her out to graze the sheep. Ramadan would come and they had no one to prepare the pre-dawn meal or the breaking of the fast for them. She was out grazing the sheep and did not fast for about, perhaps, five years. We know that she should have been careful to preserve it, so what should she do to make it up?
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
Yes, if a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it is obligatory for her to fast and pray and fulfill the obligatory acts of the religion. If she left fasting, she must make it up, and feed one poor person for every day for the delay, because it remains a debt in her conscience. She makes it up according to her ability; it is not necessary for her to make it up all at once, or to make up all the months at once. No, she distributes it according to her ability until she is done with it.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
And she distributed it.
I have one question, please, Shaykh. My wife was very young, perhaps fifteen years old, and her mother died, and her father had no mahram (relative one may not marry) and he used to send her out to graze the sheep. Ramadan would come and they had no one to prepare the pre-dawn meal or the breaking of the fast for them. She was out grazing the sheep and did not fast for about, perhaps, five years. We know that she should have been careful to preserve it, so what should she do to make it up?
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
Yes, if a woman reaches the age of menstruation, it is obligatory for her to fast and pray and fulfill the obligatory acts of the religion. If she left fasting, she must make it up, and feed one poor person for every day for the delay, because it remains a debt in her conscience. She makes it up according to her ability; it is not necessary for her to make it up all at once, or to make up all the months at once. No, she distributes it according to her ability until she is done with it.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
And she distributed it.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (054) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1435-05-11] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (37:47)
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