The Ruling on Making Up Missed Fasts and the Ruling on One Who Dies with Days of Fasting Outstanding
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Question:
I am a woman who broke her fast in Ramadan in the first year that fasting became obligatory for me. Because of my shyness at the time, I did not make it up. Please note that this has been the case for several years. What is the ruling in this matter? And what is the ruling for a woman who died with days of fasting remaining from Ramadan, which she had broken for a valid religious excuse, but her guardian is not certain of the number of days?
Answer:
We have answered this in the previous question. We said that it is obligatory to make up the fasts. For a woman who has days from Ramadan that she broke during her early years, it is obligatory for her to make up these days. In addition to making them up, she must feed a poor person for each day by giving him half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of food. If she collects the charity for all the days and gives it to one poor person, that is sufficient.
As for a woman who died with days of Ramadan remaining, she is excused from making them up. Instead, a poor person is fed on her behalf for each day. This is what is obligatory: it is obligatory for her guardian to give charity on her behalf by feeding a poor person for each day.
I am a woman who broke her fast in Ramadan in the first year that fasting became obligatory for me. Because of my shyness at the time, I did not make it up. Please note that this has been the case for several years. What is the ruling in this matter? And what is the ruling for a woman who died with days of fasting remaining from Ramadan, which she had broken for a valid religious excuse, but her guardian is not certain of the number of days?
Answer:
We have answered this in the previous question. We said that it is obligatory to make up the fasts. For a woman who has days from Ramadan that she broke during her early years, it is obligatory for her to make up these days. In addition to making them up, she must feed a poor person for each day by giving him half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of food. If she collects the charity for all the days and gives it to one poor person, that is sufficient.
As for a woman who died with days of Ramadan remaining, she is excused from making them up. Instead, a poor person is fed on her behalf for each day. This is what is obligatory: it is obligatory for her guardian to give charity on her behalf by feeding a poor person for each day.
Source
أسئلة وأجوبة ي كليات البنات المتوسطة في شقراء — archive.org (20:06)
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