A girl who reached puberty at the age of eleven, but due to her young age and ignorance of the rulings of the religion, believed that fasting is not obligatory except for those who reach the age of fifteen
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The questioner : She states in her question that she is a girl who reached puberty at the age of eleven, but due to her young age and ignorance of the rulings of the religion, she believed that fasting is not obligatory except for those who reach the age of fifteen. Therefore, four years passed without her fasting Ramadan. What must she do now?
The Shaykh : What I see in this matter is that if she was in a country far from Islamic knowledge, and neither she nor her family had knowledge, then she owes nothing. However, if she was in a country where there are scholars and her family knows that if they asked them, they would inform her, then she is negligent and she must make up the months she did not fast after reaching puberty. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you. You say.
The Shaykh : What I see in this matter is that if she was in a country far from Islamic knowledge, and neither she nor her family had knowledge, then she owes nothing. However, if she was in a country where there are scholars and her family knows that if they asked them, they would inform her, then she is negligent and she must make up the months she did not fast after reaching puberty. Yes.
The questioner : May Allah reward you. You say.