What is required of one who did not fast Ramadan due to kidney failure?
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Question:
The questioner, Mashari Uthman, says in this question: that he is a high school student who is seventeen years old. He developed kidney failure six months ago. He says: "I have not fasted Ramadan, and that is due to the failure. In two weeks, I will start dialysis. I asked what I should do regarding not fasting, and they told me: you must distribute a fidyah of thirty sa' for Ramadan, with each sa' for a poor person. Please advise us, may Allah reward you, regarding this."
Answer:
You must consult the specialized doctors. If your recovery is expected, then you must make up the fasts, fasting during the times when there is no dialysis and fasting does not harm you, or during the times when the dialysis is removed—may Allah will it—and you are cured.
As for if the illness continues, and the rule is that this illness persists, and that fasting harms you, then there is no objection to feeding a poor person for each day, half a sa' for the entire month, fifteen sa'.
But it appears—may Allah know best—that this is expected to end, and that the days without dialysis can be used to make up the fasts. So praise be to Allah, you make up the fasts on the days without dialysis if you are able. As for if the doctors determine that this harms you, and that fasting harms you, and that you must continue not fasting, then you feed a poor person for each day, half a sa', one and a half kilograms.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh.
The questioner, Mashari Uthman, says in this question: that he is a high school student who is seventeen years old. He developed kidney failure six months ago. He says: "I have not fasted Ramadan, and that is due to the failure. In two weeks, I will start dialysis. I asked what I should do regarding not fasting, and they told me: you must distribute a fidyah of thirty sa' for Ramadan, with each sa' for a poor person. Please advise us, may Allah reward you, regarding this."
Answer:
You must consult the specialized doctors. If your recovery is expected, then you must make up the fasts, fasting during the times when there is no dialysis and fasting does not harm you, or during the times when the dialysis is removed—may Allah will it—and you are cured.
As for if the illness continues, and the rule is that this illness persists, and that fasting harms you, then there is no objection to feeding a poor person for each day, half a sa' for the entire month, fifteen sa'.
But it appears—may Allah know best—that this is expected to end, and that the days without dialysis can be used to make up the fasts. So praise be to Allah, you make up the fasts on the days without dialysis if you are able. As for if the doctors determine that this harms you, and that fasting harms you, and that you must continue not fasting, then you feed a poor person for each day, half a sa', one and a half kilograms.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good, O Shaykh.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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