What is the ruling on a woman who has days of fasting to make up, but she fasted before making up the days she missed in Ramadan, on virtuous days such as the Day of 'Arafah and the Day of
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The questioner : Her second question is: I ask the honorable Shaykh about the ruling on a woman who has days of fasting to make up, but she fasted before making up the days she missed in Ramadan, on virtuous days such as the Day of 'Arafah and the Day of Ashura, and she has not yet made up her fasts. Please inform us, may Allah reward you with good?
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah. What a person should do is begin with the obligatory before the voluntary. So what is prescribed for this woman and others who have Ramadan fasts to make up is to begin with making up the fasts first, then with voluntary fasting. If this woman fasted the voluntary days, the days on which fasting is prescribed, with the intention that they count as making up her missed fasts, that would be better. She would obtain the reward of fasting on that day, and her obligation to make up the fasts would be discharged.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : We have said that what is prescribed is for a person to begin with the obligatory before the voluntary. Yes.
The Shaykh : Praise be to Allah. What a person should do is begin with the obligatory before the voluntary. So what is prescribed for this woman and others who have Ramadan fasts to make up is to begin with making up the fasts first, then with voluntary fasting. If this woman fasted the voluntary days, the days on which fasting is prescribed, with the intention that they count as making up her missed fasts, that would be better. She would obtain the reward of fasting on that day, and her obligation to make up the fasts would be discharged.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : We have said that what is prescribed is for a person to begin with the obligatory before the voluntary. Yes.