The ruling on one who delays making up fasts for several years
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Question:
May Allah reward you. A message came from a female questioner in the program. She says: Honorable Shaykh, I am a girl who is about twenty years old. I previously broke my fast in many months of Ramadan for a valid religious excuse, but I did not make up these days out of negligence and laziness. What is obligatory for me now? And does this breaking of the fast carry an expiation? Please inform us of this.
Answer:
It is obligatory for her now to hasten to make up the fasts, making up the days she broke in Ramadan. Even if multiple Ramadans have passed, she should count them and make them up, intending for each month in which she left days, and she should fast them as make-up fasts because they are still remaining in her liability. And along with making up the fasts, she must feed one poor person for each day as an expiation for the delay. Yes.
May Allah reward you. A message came from a female questioner in the program. She says: Honorable Shaykh, I am a girl who is about twenty years old. I previously broke my fast in many months of Ramadan for a valid religious excuse, but I did not make up these days out of negligence and laziness. What is obligatory for me now? And does this breaking of the fast carry an expiation? Please inform us of this.
Answer:
It is obligatory for her now to hasten to make up the fasts, making up the days she broke in Ramadan. Even if multiple Ramadans have passed, she should count them and make them up, intending for each month in which she left days, and she should fast them as make-up fasts because they are still remaining in her liability. And along with making up the fasts, she must feed one poor person for each day as an expiation for the delay. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 6604- حكم من أخرت قضاء الصيام عدة سنوات - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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