Is a bipolar patient required to offer expiation for oaths made during a manic episode that he subsequently became unable to fulfill? What is the Sharīʿah's view on the financial responsibility of a financially capable father to support his unmarried daughters, including clothing and medical treatment, if the mother claims that this is not obligatory for him?
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If you utter oaths during manic episodes without intention or choice, then you are not held accountable, and nothing is entailed by them. This is because whoever is overcome in their mind by an illness is not bound by anything. Just as the divorce of someone with obsessive thoughts does not occur if it was not intentional, an oath is even more deserving of excuse than a divorce.
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