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What is the expiation for someone who masturbated during the day in Ramadan, is unable to feed the poor, and wishes to fast in compensation for the day they broke their fast?

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Masturbation is forbidden, and there is no expiation for it according to the majority of scholars. What is obligatory is sincere repentance.

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