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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The obligation upon a woman to hasten in making up the fasts of Ramadan to clear her conscience

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. One of the listening brothers sent a collection of questions via a message, and at the end he signed as your brother in Allah, Iyad Abu Salah. Brother Iyad has a collection of questions, as I mentioned, and in one of them he says: Some women experience their monthly excuse during Ramadan, and they delay making up the fasts until Ramadan is about to arrive, or until a year has passed, and they remember and break their fasts regarding this matter. What is the guidance for our sisters? May Allah preserve you.

Answer:
The guidance is that whoever has fasts to make up from Ramadan, it is recommended for him to hasten in making them up in order to clear his conscience of the obligation, and to compensate for the delay in order to attain reward and recompense from Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, because he is in urgent need of that. However, it is permissible for him to delay until there remain of the coming Ramadan only the number of days he owes. At that point, it becomes obligatory for him to make them up, and it is not permissible for him to delay until after Ramadan without an excuse.
The result is that whoever has fasts to make up from Ramadan, it is recommended for him to hasten in making them up. He may delay them until there remain of the new Ramadan only the number of days he owes. At that point, it becomes obligatory for him to make them up in order to be rid of them before the new Ramadan enters. If he delays without an excuse until after the new Ramadan, two things become obligatory upon him: it becomes obligatory for him to make up the fasts, and it becomes obligatory for him to feed a poor person for each day of the delay.
And the Mother of the Believers, Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her), reported that she used to have fasts to make up from Ramadan, but she could not make them up except in Sha'ban, because of the position of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). This indicates the permissibility of delaying until there remain only the number of days he owes before the new Ramadan.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4095- الواجب على المرأة المبادرة في قضاء رمضان ابراء لذمتها - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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