The Expiation for Intercourse During the Day in Ramadan When One Is Unable to Free a Slave or Fast
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, he says: I inform you that I have had intercourse with my wife on several days in several Ramadans, and I have left that to Allah, and I have made up some of it, but I am deficient regarding seeking forgiveness, for I am unable to free a slave, and the seeking of forgiveness has increased upon me in the fasting. Do I move to feeding, or what? And may Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If you are unable to perform the first two things, neither freeing a slave nor fasting, you move to feeding sixty poor people. But this is in the case of inability; it is for the one for whom it is difficult. If you are unable, you fast. As for the one who cannot, Allah the Exalted says:[Al-Mujadila 58:4] But if you are able, even with difficulty, it is obligatory for you to fast. And perhaps Allah will accept your repentance as well, because you committed a heinous crime.
Honorable Shaykh, he says: I inform you that I have had intercourse with my wife on several days in several Ramadans, and I have left that to Allah, and I have made up some of it, but I am deficient regarding seeking forgiveness, for I am unable to free a slave, and the seeking of forgiveness has increased upon me in the fasting. Do I move to feeding, or what? And may Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
If you are unable to perform the first two things, neither freeing a slave nor fasting, you move to feeding sixty poor people. But this is in the case of inability; it is for the one for whom it is difficult. If you are unable, you fast. As for the one who cannot, Allah the Exalted says:
and he who is unable - then the feeding of sixty poor persons
فَمَن لَّمْ يَسْتَطِعْ فَإِطْعَامُ سِتِّينَ مِسْكِينًا
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شرح نونية ابن القيم [61] — alfawzan.live (1:22:52)
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