The Elderly Person Who Has Lost His Strength Regarding Abandoning Fasting
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: As for the elderly person who has lost his strength, is there a specific age at which it is said that if he reaches it, he does not fast?
Answer:
As long as he has his mind, it is obligatory for him to feed people in place of fasting. But if he is, meaning, senile, having no mind and not knowing, then he owes nothing. And as long as he has his mind, prayer is obligatory upon him, fasting is obligatory upon him, and the four acts of worship are obligatory upon him. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: As for the elderly person who has lost his strength, is there a specific age at which it is said that if he reaches it, he does not fast?
Answer:
As long as he has his mind, it is obligatory for him to feed people in place of fasting. But if he is, meaning, senile, having no mind and not knowing, then he owes nothing. And as long as he has his mind, prayer is obligatory upon him, fasting is obligatory upon him, and the four acts of worship are obligatory upon him. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 27-04-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (51:34)
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