The ruling on fasting for a person with a chronic heart condition
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Question:
We take Abu Sarah from al-Qassim. Go ahead, Abu Sarah. Peace be upon you. You have questions. My mother had open-heart surgery, and she did not fast this year or last year. She has diabetes and heart surgery. If the doctor were to look at her fasting, he would say, “By Allah, I do not see that she should fast.” All right, let the Shaykh answer. All right, go ahead, Shaykh Salih.
Answer:
This is a patient with a chronic illness who is unable to fast, neither in its proper time nor by making it up. Therefore, he must feed the poor. He feeds one poor person for each day the amount of one and a half kilograms, meaning for the entire month, forty-five kilograms are given to a needy family or to a needy individual. Yes.
We take Abu Sarah from al-Qassim. Go ahead, Abu Sarah. Peace be upon you. You have questions. My mother had open-heart surgery, and she did not fast this year or last year. She has diabetes and heart surgery. If the doctor were to look at her fasting, he would say, “By Allah, I do not see that she should fast.” All right, let the Shaykh answer. All right, go ahead, Shaykh Salih.
Answer:
This is a patient with a chronic illness who is unable to fast, neither in its proper time nor by making it up. Therefore, he must feed the poor. He feeds one poor person for each day the amount of one and a half kilograms, meaning for the entire month, forty-five kilograms are given to a needy family or to a needy individual. Yes.
Source
قناة «مكة و المدينة»، 12 فتاوى على الهواء - 06 / 09 / 1433هـ _ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (26:18)
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