Ramadan followed one after another, and she did not make up the days she missed. What should she do?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. After this, a message reached the program from the Eastern Region, sent by one of our sisters. The sender is from the Eastern Region, Dammam, M-Ein. She asks and says: I am a woman who is approximately twenty-four years old, and praise be to Allah, I fulfill what Allah has made obligatory upon me, such as fasting, prayer, and other religious obligations, and I praise Allah for that. However, I remembered that in the past, approximately three or four Ramadans passed during which I did not fast, due to monthly menstruation and also due to ignorance. Now I ask your eminence what is obligatory for me now? Since I was from the Bedouin and did not know the matters of my religion. May Allah reward you with good?

Answer:
What is obligatory for you now are two things. The first thing is making up the days you fasted, even if they were from a long time ago, because they are a debt in your conscience and an obligation in your conscience, so it is necessary to perform them. Fasting Ramadan is a pillar of Islam. The second thing is that you must feed a poor person for each day as expiation for the delay in making up the fast until this time. The amount of food for the poor person is half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), which is approximately one and a half kilograms for each day. You gather this expiation for the days and pay it to one poor person, or to several poor people, or to one of the houses of the poor, or to several houses. All of that is sufficient, and praise be to Allah, whether you pay it all together or separately. There is no harm in that. Yes.