📖 FIQH OF RAMADAN
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Fidya (Expiation) for Not Being Able to Fast
A very old person who does not have the strength to fast or a very sickly or diseased person who has no hope of recovering after Ramaḍān should pay an expiation for each fast missed in Ramaḍān.
The fidya for a fast is similar to that of a missed farḍ or wājib prayer:
3½ lbs = 1.6 kg of wheat, or 7 lbs = 3.2 kg of barley, or the equivalent of the above in cash or kind.
If the person recovers after Ramaḍān the missed fasts would;
-have to made up
-and the expiation paid would be considered sadaqa.
📌 A few other rulings should be considered:
•No one is allowed to fast for another (sick or fit) person.
•Children should be encouraged to fast, but should not be forced to complete the fast up to sunset if they are unable to bear the hunger.
•If a person’s fast breaks due to any reason, he should continue not to eat or drink anything for the rest of the day. It is wajib to abstain from eating drinking for the rest of the day and act like a fasting person.
•This is the same ruling for a woman whose menstrual periods ends after the morning. She cannot fast that day, and she cannot eat or drink, but she should remain like a fasting person.
•However, a women who starts her menstruation in the middle of the day is allowed to eat or drink.
[Source Fiqh of Fasting Seminar
By:Mufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera]
