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What is required of one who broke their fast after puberty, thinking that puberty occurs at the age of 18?

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If you broke your fast in Ramadan after reaching puberty, because you thought fasting was not obligatory for you, then you must make up those days, and the obligation to make them up does not cease. However, if you broke your fast knowing that it was obligatory, and you obeyed your parents in breaking it, then you are disobedient and must repent. But if you had not reached the signs of puberty before the age of eighteen, and you were not inclined to the opinion of puberty at the age of fifteen, then we hope there is no blame on you and you are not required to make up those days, because considering eighteen years of age as the age of puberty is the opinion of some scholars, and a layperson may follow their opinions as long as he is not inclined to others.

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