If a woman forgets her menstrual cycle and then remembers it, is she required to make up the prayers and fasts?
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Question : Intentionally, and whenever the forgetful woman remembers her cycle, she returns to it because she left it off due to her inability to observe it. Once the inability is removed, it becomes obligatory to act in accordance with it because the impediment has been removed. If it differs from what she had been doing, she must make up the obligatory fasts she missed during the period of her usual cycle, and the prayers and fasts she missed during the time she was in a state of purity, because we have established that she left them off while in a state of purity, and the woman does not become
Answer : The correct view, the correct view is that what she did was based on her independent legal reasoning, so she owes nothing. How can we tell them, "Sit down, do not pray," based on the initial ruling, and say that this is the ruling of Allah, and then afterwards tell them, "Go back and make up the prayers"? The correct position is that she owes nothing, just as if a person fed the poor on behalf of a missed fast and then recovered, he would not repeat the fast; or if he appointed someone to perform Hajj on his behalf due to his inability to do so, and then recovered, he would not repeat the Hajj.
Answer : The correct view, the correct view is that what she did was based on her independent legal reasoning, so she owes nothing. How can we tell them, "Sit down, do not pray," based on the initial ruling, and say that this is the ruling of Allah, and then afterwards tell them, "Go back and make up the prayers"? The correct position is that she owes nothing, just as if a person fed the poor on behalf of a missed fast and then recovered, he would not repeat the fast; or if he appointed someone to perform Hajj on his behalf due to his inability to do so, and then recovered, he would not repeat the Hajj.
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 532 - هل إذا نست المرأة عادتها ثم ذكرتها عليها أن تقضي الصلاة والصيام؟ - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com
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