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What is the expiation for intercourse, eating, and inserting a finger into the vagina during the daytime in Ramadan, given that she was unaware of the invalidation of the fast and was negligent in performing the expiation until the next Ramadan overtook her?

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If a woman obeys her husband by engaging in intercourse during Ramadan, expiation (kaffarah) is incumbent upon her, along with repentance. The expiation is: freeing a slave; if that is not available, then fasting for two consecutive months; if she is unable to do that, then feeding sixty poor people. It does not become void by delaying it. Inserting a finger into the vagina does not invalidate the fast. Deliberately breaking the fast without a valid legal excuse is a major sin, and a severe warning has been issued concerning it.

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