Fasting of a woman with diabetes
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Fatwa number ( 2433 )
Q: I have a wife whom I married in 1377 AH, and now we have ten children, six boys and four girls. This wife, praise be to Allah, is righteous and fears Allah. Since our marriage, she has been diligent in her religion, performing the five obligatory prayers and fasting Ramadan. I have not noticed any laziness on her part in performing the obligation of prayer and fasting the blessed month of Ramadan. When she breaks her fast in Ramadan for a valid religious excuse, which is the monthly period of women, and the month of Ramadan ends with five days remaining, she makes up the days she missed on her own initiative. A year ago, she was afflicted with diabetes in the blood and urine, where her sugar levels rose to the point of fainting, and we took her to the hospital. After months, praise be to Allah, her condition improved after the illness, but the diabetes remains with her. The doctors have decided that this disease (diabetes) cannot be cured. In the month of Ramadan of 1398 AH, she gave birth to a male child in the first days of the blessed month of Ramadan. After she had passed forty days following the birth, she tried to make up the fasting of the month that coincided with the days of her childbirth, which was Ramadan. She fasted until the call to the midday prayer, when she experienced dizziness and was unable to
stand up because of it, so she was forced to break her fast. After she consumed some water and food, the dizziness left her. A few days later, she fasted, and when the midday time came, she experienced dizziness again, and so on for a period of three days. Every time she tried to fast, she would experience dizziness and be forced to break her fast. She even cried out of fear of Allah that the coming Ramadan would find her in this state. She asked me to write to your eminence regarding her situation. If Allah wills, she will try to fast, but if she is unable to fast due to the dizziness she experiences as a result of fasting, what is obligatory for her, or for me as her husband, to do for the sake of Allah? I ask for your guidance. May Allah guide you to what He loves and is pleased with, keep your steps steady, and make Paradise your abode. .
A: If the situation is as you described, regarding the continuation of her weakness due to her illness and her inability to make up the fasts, there is no harm in delaying the making up of the fasts until she is able to do so, even if it is after another Ramadan. If her inability to make up the fasts continues, it is obligatory for her to feed one poor person for every day she missed from Ramadan. This is done by giving half a sa' of wheat, dates, rice, or similar customary food in your area to a poor person for every day she missed. The obligation to make up the fasts is lifted from her as long as she is unable to do so.
And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions.
Q: I have a wife whom I married in 1377 AH, and now we have ten children, six boys and four girls. This wife, praise be to Allah, is righteous and fears Allah. Since our marriage, she has been diligent in her religion, performing the five obligatory prayers and fasting Ramadan. I have not noticed any laziness on her part in performing the obligation of prayer and fasting the blessed month of Ramadan. When she breaks her fast in Ramadan for a valid religious excuse, which is the monthly period of women, and the month of Ramadan ends with five days remaining, she makes up the days she missed on her own initiative. A year ago, she was afflicted with diabetes in the blood and urine, where her sugar levels rose to the point of fainting, and we took her to the hospital. After months, praise be to Allah, her condition improved after the illness, but the diabetes remains with her. The doctors have decided that this disease (diabetes) cannot be cured. In the month of Ramadan of 1398 AH, she gave birth to a male child in the first days of the blessed month of Ramadan. After she had passed forty days following the birth, she tried to make up the fasting of the month that coincided with the days of her childbirth, which was Ramadan. She fasted until the call to the midday prayer, when she experienced dizziness and was unable to
stand up because of it, so she was forced to break her fast. After she consumed some water and food, the dizziness left her. A few days later, she fasted, and when the midday time came, she experienced dizziness again, and so on for a period of three days. Every time she tried to fast, she would experience dizziness and be forced to break her fast. She even cried out of fear of Allah that the coming Ramadan would find her in this state. She asked me to write to your eminence regarding her situation. If Allah wills, she will try to fast, but if she is unable to fast due to the dizziness she experiences as a result of fasting, what is obligatory for her, or for me as her husband, to do for the sake of Allah? I ask for your guidance. May Allah guide you to what He loves and is pleased with, keep your steps steady, and make Paradise your abode. .
A: If the situation is as you described, regarding the continuation of her weakness due to her illness and her inability to make up the fasts, there is no harm in delaying the making up of the fasts until she is able to do so, even if it is after another Ramadan. If her inability to make up the fasts continues, it is obligatory for her to feed one poor person for every day she missed from Ramadan. This is done by giving half a sa' of wheat, dates, rice, or similar customary food in your area to a poor person for every day she missed. The obligation to make up the fasts is lifted from her as long as she is unable to do so.
And success is from Allah, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions.
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