Exemptions and Excuses
652 questions
What should a Muslim do who is unable to fast in Ramadan—due to illnesses that necessitate taking medication regularly during periods that prevent fasting—based on the advice of a non-Muslim doctor, and what is the expiation in this case, and is it permissible to pay it before the month, or after it, or in installments?
Is it permissible for someone who intentionally broke their fast for a number of days in Ramadan during their youth, and was unable to make them up in their old age, to appoint someone to fast on their behalf for financial compensation? And have scholars differed on this issue?
What is the expiation for a woman who engages in sexual intercourse during the daytime in Ramadan willingly, without being coerced, given her inability to emancipate a slave or fast for two months due to pregnancy, and is it permissible for her to feed sixty needy persons?
Is it permissible for a husband to have intercourse with his wife at dawn in Ramadan immediately upon his arrival from travel, knowing that he cannot wait until Maghrib?
Is it permissible to break one's fast after fasting for a day while traveling if one began the fast a little before dawn?
Is the woman who dies during childbirth, and does not pray and owes days from Ramadan, considered a martyr as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) informed?
Is a woman required to make up for missed Ramadan fasts due to pregnancy or breastfeeding, and what is the evidence for that?
Is fasting obligatory for a traveler from Los Angeles to Morocco on the mentioned dates, or is she permitted to break her fast, and can she complete the fast of Monday then break it on the plane?
Must one who intends to travel in Ramadan make the intention to break their fast the night before, and if the journey is canceled, is one obligated to fast, or may one break their fast until they are certain of their travel?
Does a woman's fasting become invalidated if she touches her vulva and feels a thrill during a Ramadan day?
Is it permissible to continue studying at a mixed-gender university, despite the corrupting influences of mixing therein, or should one search for another non-mixed and academically suitable university, even if that necessitates traveling abroad, given its conflict with family circumstances?
What should a wife do with her husband who eats in Ramadan and refuses to fast, and is it permissible for her to remain with him when there are children?
Will the husband be sinful for not providing for his wife who refuses to travel to him and demands a divorce after discovering she is afflicted with magic, and is the wife entitled to all her rights if she insists on divorce, even though the husband does not wish to divorce her?
Should one make up a fast for a specific day that was vowed and then forgotten?
What is the ruling on a pregnant woman in her seventh month, who is currently in Ramadan, delaying the repayment of an obligatory debt from last year?
What is the Sharia ruling regarding a wife whose husband is absent for long periods, and she has a strong sexual desire and cannot control herself? Is it permissible for her to masturbate or not, and what is your guidance for her?
What is the ruling on someone who broke their fast for the entire month of Ramadan due to illness and travel, and was unable to make up those days because of studying and working? Is it permissible for him to give charity by feeding a poor person for each day, and what is the amount of this charity in Saudi Riyals?
Is the female doctor obligated to pay blood money or to fast for two consecutive months following the death of her patient, to whom she administered a painkiller, given the doubt that the cause of death was due to complications of her illness and not to the doctor’s action?
Is it obligatory to pay a doubled expiation and fast for someone who broke their fast in Ramadan due to illness and was unable to make up the days or pay the expiation?
Is it permissible for a traveler to combine the Maghrib and Isha prayers by delaying the Maghrib prayer to be performed with the Isha prayer (Jam’ Takhir), half an hour before the Isha Adhan, based on the understanding that the time for Isha extends until the true dawn, as stated by Ibn Taymiyyah?
Does the repentance of one who has committed incest and fornication with foreign women get accepted, and is it permissible to travel to distance oneself from them while one's parents are elderly, and will one bear the sin of those who commit fornication after one has distanced oneself from them?
What must a female inquirer do who made two vows—while young—one being "never to disobey Allah" if she is cured, and the other "to fast two months or more" if she is cured, knowing that she does not specifically remember the details of the two vows and has not fully recovered from her illness yet?
What must a woman do who reached puberty and then was negligent in fasting days of Ramadan for years, then got married and became pregnant and did not fast the months of her pregnancy due to her severe exhaustion, knowing that she does not remember the number of days she missed fasting before her marriage?
What is the ruling regarding the four Ramadans that the wife missed due to pregnancy and breastfeeding, and then the fifth Ramadan that she missed due to cancer and treatment? Is she required to make up the fasts (qada’) along with expiation (kaffara), or qada’ only, or kaffara only? Knowing that she has fed the poor for the first four Ramadans but did not make them up. And is it permissible for the husband to fast on her behalf, or is that restricted to the deceased only?