What is the expiation for breaking the fast of a sick person in Ramadan?
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Question:
As for the first question of this evening, the questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, I am suffering from severe high blood pressure, and the doctors have advised me to break my fast in Ramadan, saying that fasting increases the illness. What do you advise me to do, and what is the expiation for breaking my fast?
Answer:
We advise you to follow the doctors' opinion and to break your fast out of fear that the illness will worsen. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is the One who granted you a dispensation,[Al-Baqarah 2:185], so break your fast and do not fast. If Allah heals you in the future, or if your blood pressure decreases and you are able to fast, then you must make up the missed days, and praise be to Allah.
As for the first question of this evening, the questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, I am suffering from severe high blood pressure, and the doctors have advised me to break my fast in Ramadan, saying that fasting increases the illness. What do you advise me to do, and what is the expiation for breaking my fast?
Answer:
We advise you to follow the doctors' opinion and to break your fast out of fear that the illness will worsen. Allah, Mighty and Majestic, is the One who granted you a dispensation,
and whoever is ill or on a journey - then an equal number of other days
وَمَن كَانَ مَرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِّنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما كفارة إفطار المريض في رمضان؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (0:25)
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