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The ruling on fasting for a woman with kidney failure and making up missed fasts when there is hardship

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The questioner:
A woman was afflicted with kidney failure, and after a year had passed, the doctors permitted her to fast. Fasting became very difficult for her due to the change in her medication schedule and because of her high blood pressure, so she was only able to fast for fourteen days. What is the ruling for this woman? If she is able to make up the fasts, she is able.

The Shaykh:
Yes. If she is not able to make up the fasts, and it is not expected that she will be able to, then she must feed a poor person for each day.

The questioner:
That is possible.

The Shaykh:
In this matter, if Allah wills. Yes.

The questioner:
And is she required to make up the fasts despite the hardship? No. Is it with hardship or without?

The Shaykh:
If fasting does not burden her, she must make it up; if it does burden her, she does not have to. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, says: He says, “And He has not placed.” Yes.
Allah does not intendمَا يُرِيدُ اللَّهُ
[Al-Ma'idah 5:6]
that He would place upon you any hardship in the religion. Yes.
and has not placed upon you in the religion any difficultyوَمَا جَعَلَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ مِنْ حَرَجٍ
[Al-Hajj 22:78]
. Yes.
Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardshipيُرِيدُ اللَّهُ بِكُمُ الْيُسْرَ وَلَا يُرِيدُ بِكُمُ الْعُسْرَ
[Al-Baqarah 2:185]
. Yes.
Source الصيام مع المشقة — alfawzan.live

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