Discontinuing the voluntary acts of worship that a person is accustomed to
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An elderly woman who always fasts the first ten days of Dhu al-Hijjah every year, except this year,She says: I am not fasting except for three or four days. Does she commit a sin?
The woman who was accustomed to fasting the first ten days of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, and this year there was something preventing her, such as illness, fatigue, old age, or something similar,We say to her: Voluntary acts of worship do not obligate a person, even if he is healthy. So if it is a person's habit to fast the white days, for example, but he is unable to do so this month, or he is lazy about it, there is no blame on him for leaving them; because it is a voluntary act. But if a person leaves this voluntary act for an excuse, its reward is written for him;By the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (Whoever is ill or travels, his reward is written as if he were healthy and resident).
The woman who was accustomed to fasting the first ten days of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, and this year there was something preventing her, such as illness, fatigue, old age, or something similar,We say to her: Voluntary acts of worship do not obligate a person, even if he is healthy. So if it is a person's habit to fast the white days, for example, but he is unable to do so this month, or he is lazy about it, there is no blame on him for leaving them; because it is a voluntary act. But if a person leaves this voluntary act for an excuse, its reward is written for him;By the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): (Whoever is ill or travels, his reward is written as if he were healthy and resident).