Ruling on making up fasting on behalf of an elderly, sick deceased person
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Question:
I love you for the sake of Allah. My father passed away while he was sick and also advanced in age, and he was unable to fast Ramadan. Should I feed people on his behalf or not?
Answer:
As for love for the sake of Allah, we say: May Allah love you, for you loved us for His sake. Loving one another for the sake of Allah is among the best of the means of drawing near to Him, as He (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih al-Bukhari 16 the hadith. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Muwatta Malik 51:14 and he mentioned among them two men who loved each other for the sake of Allah: they gathered for it and they parted for it. And he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Sahih Muslim 2566 narrated by Muslim in his *Sahih*. And Malik narrated with a sound chain from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: : My love becomes obligatory for those who love each other for My sake, and those who visit each other for My sake, and those who sit together for My sake, and those who exchange gifts for My sake. We ask Allah to make us and you among them.
As for your father: you owe nothing as long as he died while sick and advanced in age, unable to fast. You do not have to make up the fast or feed people if he did not regain health, but died in his illness, or in his old age where he was unable to fast. So you do not have to make up the fast. However, if he was advanced in age, he should feed one poor person for every day during his lifetime. You feed on his behalf one poor person for every day, half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg): dates, or rice, or wheat, if he was unable to fast but his mind was intact. You feed one poor person on his behalf for every day of all the days he did not fast in Ramadan.
As for the sick person who dies in his illness, he owes nothing. Likewise, the one who is unable to fast if his senses change, if his mind changes, he owes nothing. So if it is an elderly person or a sick person whose senses have changed, he owes nothing; because he has become one of those not obligated due to old age or the illness that changed his mind. His ruling becomes the ruling of the insane and the mentally ill; he owes nothing.
I love you for the sake of Allah. My father passed away while he was sick and also advanced in age, and he was unable to fast Ramadan. Should I feed people on his behalf or not?
Answer:
As for love for the sake of Allah, we say: May Allah love you, for you loved us for His sake. Loving one another for the sake of Allah is among the best of the means of drawing near to Him, as He (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever possesses the following three qualities will have the sweetness (delight) of faith: 1. The one to whom Allah and His Apostle becomes dearer than anything else. 2. Who loves a person and he loves him only for Allah's sake
ثلاثٌ مَن كنَّ فيه وجد حلاوةَ الإيمان: أن يكون الله ورسوله أحبَّ إليه مما سواهما، وأن يُحبّ المرء لا يُحبّه إلا لله ..There are seven whom Allah will shade in His shade on the day on which there is no shade except His shade
سبعةٌ يُظلهم الله في ظلِّه يوم لا ظلَّ إلا ظلهAllah would say on the Day of Resurrection: Where are those who have mutual love for My Glory's sake? Today I shall shelter them in My shadow when there is no other shadow but the shadow of Mine.
يقول الله يوم القيامة: أين المتحابُّون بجلالي؟ اليوم أُظلهم في ظلِّي يوم لا ظلَّ إلا ظلِّيAllah the Exalted says:
يقول الله As for your father: you owe nothing as long as he died while sick and advanced in age, unable to fast. You do not have to make up the fast or feed people if he did not regain health, but died in his illness, or in his old age where he was unable to fast. So you do not have to make up the fast. However, if he was advanced in age, he should feed one poor person for every day during his lifetime. You feed on his behalf one poor person for every day, half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg): dates, or rice, or wheat, if he was unable to fast but his mind was intact. You feed one poor person on his behalf for every day of all the days he did not fast in Ramadan.
As for the sick person who dies in his illness, he owes nothing. Likewise, the one who is unable to fast if his senses change, if his mind changes, he owes nothing. So if it is an elderly person or a sick person whose senses have changed, he owes nothing; because he has become one of those not obligated due to old age or the illness that changed his mind. His ruling becomes the ruling of the insane and the mentally ill; he owes nothing.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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