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What is the ruling on one who has missed days in Ramadan for several years due to menstruation, and has accumulated approximately 35 days of make-up fasting, and suffers from general weakness and severe emaciation that harms her health when fasting? Can she pay expiation instead of fasting? And what is the method she can follow to convince her fiancé to be regular in prayer, especially with his practice of masturbation and their repeated marriage postponements?

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The questioner should try to eat if her weakness is a satanic delusion. However, if her weakness is real and she is unable to make up the days she missed in Ramadan, she must feed one poor person for each day. As for her fiancé, her relationship with him is not permissible in Islamic law before the marriage contract is concluded. They both must repent and end this relationship until the contract is finalized. If her fiancé continues to abandon prayer, he is an infidel and it is not permissible to marry him. If he prays sometimes and abandons it sometimes, he is a transgressor and it is not advisable to marry him, because compatibility in marriage is considered in terms of religious commitment.

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