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Is expiation required of one who swore not to commit a sin but then committed it, knowing that expiation for breaking an oath becomes due after the act?

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If someone swears not to do something and then does it, they must offer expiation for breaking an oath, as Allah Almighty says: "So its expiation is the feeding of ten poor people from the average of that which you feed your [own] families or clothing them or freeing a slave. But he who finds not [the means to do so] - then a fast of three days." For feeding, it is sufficient to give each poor person one and a half kilograms of rice or flour, or a lunch or dinner meal. Ignorance of the necessity of expiation is not an excuse for its annulment.

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