Ruling on fasting on behalf of a sick person to make up missed fasts
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Q396: My father was afflicted last year with high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. He broke his fast for sixteen days of Ramadan and has not made them up to this day. Is it permissible for us to make up the fasts for him and fast on his behalf?
A396: If it is expected that he will be able to make up the fasts, even if it is delayed, he should be waited for. If he becomes strong enough to make them up, he must make up Ramadan, because he is sick, and Allah granted a dispensation for the sick person to break his fast and make it up. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:184]. As for if it is not expected that he will be able to make them up, then a poor person is fed on his behalf for each day, in the amount of one and a half kilograms of food, for the number of days he broke his fast in Ramadan. The Exalted said: [Al-Baqarah 2:184].
A396: If it is expected that he will be able to make up the fasts, even if it is delayed, he should be waited for. If he becomes strong enough to make them up, he must make up Ramadan, because he is sick, and Allah granted a dispensation for the sick person to break his fast and make it up. Allah the Exalted said:
So whoever among you is ill or on a journey [during them] - then an equal number of days [are to be made up]
فَمَنْ كَانَ مِنْكُمْ مَرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَى سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَAnd upon those who are able [to fast, but with hardship] - a ransom [as substitute] of feeding a poor person
وَعَلَى الَّذِينَ يُطِيقُونَهُ فِدْيَةٌ طَعَامُ مِسْكِينٍ
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