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Tue 9 Ramadan 1445AH 19-3-2024AD at 11:31 am #91247
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MATTERS RELATED TO FASTING – EPISODE 9️⃣
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THE SICK
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In the event of sickness, a person is allowed not to fast because Allaah says;“… and whoever is ill or on a journey, the same number [of days one did not fast must be made up] from other days…”
[Al-Baqarah 2:185].1️⃣ But if the ailment is minor, such as a cough, it is not a reason to break one’s fast.
2️⃣ If fasting will cause unconsciousness, he should break his fast and make it up later.
(al-Fataawa, 25/217).If one falls unconscious in the day and recovers before Maghrib or after, his fast is still valid; if he is unconscious from Fajr until Maghrib, then his fast is not valid.
According to majority of scholars, a person who falls unconscious must make up his fasts later, no matter how long he was unconscious.
(Al-Mughni ma’a al-Sharh al-Kabeer, 1/412, 3/32; al-Mawsoo’ah al-Fiqhiyyah al-Kuwaytiyyah, 5/268).Some scholars issued fatwaas that a person who falls unconscious or takes sleeping pills or receives general anaesthetic for a genuine reason, and becomes unconscious for 3days or less, must make up the fasts, because he is like one who sleeps; if he is unconscious for more than 3days, he does not have to make up the fasts, because he is regarded like one who is insane.
(Fataawa of Shaykh Ibn Baaz, issued verbally).1️⃣ If one feels extreme hunger or thirst, and fears death or damage to some of his faculties, and has rational grounds for thinking this, he may break his fast and make it up later.
But it is impermissible to break one’s fast due to bearable hardship or tiredness or fear of imagined illness.2️⃣ People who work tedious jobs are not allowed to break their fast. If they cannot stop working and face some extreme hardship that causes them to break their fast, they should only eat enough to help them bear the hardship, then refrain from eating until sunset, and they must make the fast up later.
3️⃣ Students’ exams are no excuse for breaking one’s fast in Ramadaan, and it is impermissible to obey one’s parents in this, because there is no obedience to the creation in disobedience to the Creator.
(Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 10/241).4️⃣ The sick person hoping to recover should wait until he gets better, then make up the fasts missed; he is not allowed just to feed the poor.
5️⃣ The person who has a chronic illness with no hope of recovery and elderly people who cannot fast should feed a poor person with half a saa’ of the staple food of his country for each day missed. (Half a saa’ is roughly equal to one and a half kilograms). He may do this all at once, at the end of the month, or feed a poor person each day. He must give actual food.
(Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 10/198).
But he can give money to a trustworthy person or charitable body to buy food and give it to the poor on his behalf.6️⃣ If a person is waiting to recover from his illness and hopes to get better, but dies, there is no “debt” on him or his heirs.
If one is chronically ill, so he feeds the poor, then advances in medicine now find a cure, with which he gets better, he needs not make up the fasts missed.
(Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 10/195)1️⃣ If a sick person recovers, and can make up the missed fasts but does not, and then dies, money should be taken from his estate to feed a poor person for every day he missed.
If his relatives want to fast on his behalf, then this is OK, because it was reported in al-Saheehayn that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Whoever dies owing some fasts, let his heir fast on his behalf.”
(Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, volume on Da’wah, 806).To be continued… ان شاء الله
May Allaah (ﷻ) have mercy on us and guide us through the straight path.
آمين
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