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Is it obligatory to make up for missed Ramadan fasts for someone who suffers from severe headaches and vomiting when making them up, knowing that she fasts Ramadan without great difficulty, and she has a family, children, and works?

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A woman must make up for the days she misses in Ramadan due to menstruation or other legitimate Shariah excuses. This is by consensus and based on Allah's saying: "For a fixed number of days. But whoever among you is sick or on a journey, then [he must fast] an equal number of other days." If she is able to fast Ramadan, she is able to make up the fasts, the time for which is extended throughout the year. Feeling tired on some days does not mean an inability to make them up. Neglecting to make up missed fasts, despite being able to do so, is considered abandoning a great obligation and a major wrongdoing. If a woman has not made up her fasts throughout her life, she must repent to Allah and make up all those days, and pay expiation for each day she delayed making up until another Ramadan began without a legitimate excuse preventing her.

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