📖 FIQH OF RAMADAN
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Genuine excuses for not fasting or postponing
1) Being sick
2) A traveller
3) Pregnant
4) Breastfeeding
5) Extreme weakness which can lead to illness
6) Insanity
7) Being unconscious for long periods, as in coma
8) Being in the battlefield, striving for the cause of Allah سبØا نه وتعالى
When these excuses finish. One has to fast. If illness continues and
the person is unable to make Qadhaa at a later date, then they have
to give fidya, which is the amount of Sadaqatul Fitr for every missed fast.
Further clarification on who is excused from fasting.
[Taken from: The Complete Guide to Fasting by Sister Naielah Ackbarali:(Supplement to A Gift for Ramadan)]
*⃣ Sick people and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding are obliged to fast. However, illness can excuse a person from fasting if one reasonably fears that the act of fasting would increase the sickness or slow the recovery process. The same ruling applies to a woman who is pregnant or breastfeeding and reasonably fears that fasting will harm her or her baby. Reasonable fear is known by:
- Manifest signs
- A relevant past experience
- The notification of an upright, Muslim doctor/expert.
[Shurunbulali, Maraqi al-Falah; Shurunbulali, Imdad al-Fattah]
*⃣ A traveller is also excused from fasting if he initiates his journey
before the time of Fajr enters. However, it is better that he fasts
providing that this does not cause undue hardship. If a person
begins fasting a day of Ramadhan and then travels, he is obliged to
complete his fast. [ibid]
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Source: A Gift for Ramadhan by Shaykh Abdul Raheem hafizahullah
