The ruling on a sick woman who requires daily medication in Ramadan
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Question:
The questioner says: A woman is ill, and the doctors have prescribed a medication for her to take daily, every 12 hours, for a period of five years. Perhaps she will be cured after that, and perhaps she will not. What should she do in the month of Ramadan during these five years? Does she feed people, or does she wait for a cure and make up the fasts?
Answer:
She breaks her fast in these Ramadans; she breaks her fast and takes the medication, and praise be to Allah. If she recovers after that, she makes up the fasts. If the doctors determine that there is no hope for her cure, then she feeds people at that time. If making up the fasts becomes impossible, then she feeds people at that time.
The questioner says: A woman is ill, and the doctors have prescribed a medication for her to take daily, every 12 hours, for a period of five years. Perhaps she will be cured after that, and perhaps she will not. What should she do in the month of Ramadan during these five years? Does she feed people, or does she wait for a cure and make up the fasts?
Answer:
She breaks her fast in these Ramadans; she breaks her fast and takes the medication, and praise be to Allah. If she recovers after that, she makes up the fasts. If the doctors determine that there is no hope for her cure, then she feeds people at that time. If making up the fasts becomes impossible, then she feeds people at that time.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما الواجب على امرأة مريضة قرر لها الأطباء دواء تأخذه بشكل يومي كل 12 ساعة ولمدة خمس سنوات... — youtube.com
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