Fidyah and Expiation

• Can an urgent answer be provided for question number: 2561696, as the previous referral was insufficient and the travel date is approaching?
• Is it permissible to offer the fidyah (expiatory payment) for fasting on behalf of a chronically ill father who is financially incapable, or to give him money for that purpose, knowing that the questioner is the family's sole provider?
• What is incumbent upon one who intended to perform 'Umrah and donned the ihram garments, but was then unable to complete the 'Umrah due to insufficient funds?
• Is expiation (kaffarah) obligatory for one who intended to fast a make-up (qada’) day but then menstruated on a “day of doubt” (yawm ash-shakk), and was unable to make up what was due before Ramadan?
• How is the meat of the Fidyah distributed, and is it permissible for the household to eat from it?
• What is the ruling regarding someone who passed away having not fasted two months of Ramadan due to illness and old age, and is it incumbent upon his children to fast on his behalf or to offer expiation (fidyah)?
• Is it permissible to offer a meal (rice and chicken) to a needy person as expiation for harm caused during Hajj, at a cost of about 12 riyals, instead of half a saa' of food?
• Is it permissible to remove some beard hair during Ihram due to extreme embarrassment from it?
• Does divorce take effect with the words: "Divorce be upon me from you, I will not speak to her, neither her nor anyone else," then speaking to her occurs, and is an expiation (fidyah) obligatory, knowing that the husband is traveling and his wife is in another country?
• What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding a man afflicted with liver disease who cannot stop taking his medication during Ramadan, and what are the implications for him in this regard?
• Is it permissible for a pregnant woman to break her fast out of fear for the fetus, and is she then required to make up the fast (qada') or offer expiation (fidya)?
• What is the ruling on a husband embracing his wife with desire but without intercourse after the first 'tahallul' and before the second 'tahallul' during Hajj, and is there a sin incurred if the wife was unaware and the husband was in doubt?
• What is the amount of the fidyah mentioned in the Almighty's saying: "And upon those who are able to it, is a fidyah of feeding a poor person"?
• What is the Islamic legal ruling on someone who tortured a cat and strangled it to death? Is there expiation for this sin, and how can he control his soul which incites evil?
• Does paying expiation suffice for making up the days of Ramadan fasting that were broken by masturbation during the daytime?
• What is the ruling on the days that must be made up from Ramadan: are they the last six days or all twenty-six days? And is expiation obligatory if not all the days are made up before the next Ramadan?
• Is it permissible to pay a ransom (fidyah) for a vow to complete the the Holy Quran ten times in one year, if it is impossible to fulfill it due to continuous illness?
• Is a compensatory offering (dam) obligatory for the wife and her mother due to forgetting to shorten their hair and using perfumed soap after throwing the Aqaba (Jamrat al-Aqaba) pebble?
• Must one who broke the Ramadan fast due to undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment make up the days, knowing that he paid an expiatory fee of feeding a poor person for each day?
• Is a financial ransom (fidyah) obligatory for a tattoo made by the mother out of ignorance before her death?
• What is the ruling on someone who broke their fast for three days in Ramadan due to a legitimate Shar'i excuse, then made up two days in Sha'ban, and then their menstrual period began on the third day, preventing them from making it up until after Ramadan? Is expiation (kaffarah) obligatory for her, even though she has repented? If it is obligatory, what is the expiation, and is it permissible for her parents to pay it on her behalf?
• What should one do who broke their fast for several days in the past Ramadan due to menstruation and does not remember the number of days they broke their fast?
• What must the questioner's niece do to make up for the Ramadan fasting she missed, and must she fast two days for each day and feed a poor person?
• What should a pregnant woman do who has to make up 8 days from Ramadan and is unable to fast or make up these days before or during Ramadan due to the fatigue of pregnancy?