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Fasting: Missed fasts and related questions

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Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

I am really confused regarding the making up of fasts missed..i was always told that if you missed fasts during ramadhaan and did not make them up before the next ramadhaan started, your chance had passed. Thus the debt could not be cleared. Is this the case or have i always been given the wrong information? Also, if fasts were missed due to illness,can a payment be made to cover them? Lastly,if i am unsure of how many fasts i have missed over the years how can i make them up i.e do i work out a rough calculation and then add on 60days continuous fasting??

Answer:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah,

(1) If you miss a fast, you must make it up. This duty is not lifted if you fail to make it up before the next Ramadan.
(2) The duty is to make up one’s missed fasts. Unless one is elderly and permanently unable to fast, one can’t give expiatory payments instead.
(3) If unsure about how many fasts one missed, one should make a reasonable-yet-conservative estimate. The general principle is that when certainty is not possible, one resorts to reasoned judgment.

(Ala’ al-Din Abidin, al-Hadiyya al-`Ala’iyya)

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Jazakum Allahu Khaur
Wassalam

Faraz Rabbani

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