What is the ruling concerning a woman who has reached sixty years of age and was ignorant of the rulings on menstruation, and did not make up for the Ramadan fasts, believing that they were not to be made up?
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She must repent to Allah for neglecting to ask scholars, and she must make up the fasts she missed, along with feeding a poor person for each day she missed, if she is able. Otherwise, the feeding is waived.
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