Is it permissible to make up for missed fasts due to menstruation since puberty by feeding a needy person for each day, instead of fasting them, out of fear of death before completing the make-up?
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The missed days must be made up, and feeding the poor does not substitute for making them up. One must feed a poor person for each day that the making up was delayed until the entry of the next without a valid excuse.
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