Is fasting the six days of Shawwal to be consecutive or scattered?
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The questioner : This questioner asks: Is fasting six days of Shawwal to be consecutive or scattered?
The Shaykh : It is sufficient whether he fasts them scattered or consecutive, and whether he fasts them on the second day of the festival or delays them until the middle or until the twentieth.
The important thing is that Shawwal does not end without him having fasted them, unless there is an excuse, such as if a woman gives birth on the day of the festival, for example, and is unable to fast them—meaning: the six days—until after Shawwal has ended, then there is no blame on her, because she delayed the fasting for an excuse. And whoever delays a temporary act of worship for an excuse, he makes it up when that excuse is removed.
The Shaykh : It is sufficient whether he fasts them scattered or consecutive, and whether he fasts them on the second day of the festival or delays them until the middle or until the twentieth.
The important thing is that Shawwal does not end without him having fasted them, unless there is an excuse, such as if a woman gives birth on the day of the festival, for example, and is unable to fast them—meaning: the six days—until after Shawwal has ended, then there is no blame on her, because she delayed the fasting for an excuse. And whoever delays a temporary act of worship for an excuse, he makes it up when that excuse is removed.