Is it permissible to pay the expiation for intentionally breaking the fast in Ramadan in cash to the Mosque's poor fund instead of feeding the poor, and what is the required monetary amount to be paid in this case?
Intentionally breaking the fast in Ramadan by means other than sexual intercourse necessitates repentance and making up the missed fasts, and, according to the preponderant opinion, no expiation is required for it. However, if it was by intentional sexual intercourse, then the major expiation is obligatory, in order: freeing a slave; if one cannot find a slave, then fasting for two consecutive months; if one is unable to do that, then feeding sixty poor persons, approximately 750 grams of the staple food of the country to each poor person. The food itself must be given, not its monetary value, according to the majority of scholars. However, it is permissible to give its value if it is more beneficial for the poor or if it is difficult to give the food, as in the case of the questioner, with the clarification that it is an expiation of feeding sixty poor persons for whoever undertakes its distribution. The value of the feeding is calculated by multiplying the price of 750 grams of the staple food of the country by sixty.
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