Making Up Missed Fasts
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What is the ruling on delaying making up missed fasts for many years due to illness for a wife, and is expiation due from her? And how can one deal with her refusal to pray due to her illness?
What is the ruling on one who is distracted in prayer and suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) which causes him to forget the number of rak'ahs or prostrations? Is he obligated to build upon the minimum when in doubt? And when does doubt become an obsession? Is it recommended to repeat the prayer when obsession is frequent? And is there a contradiction between building upon the minimum in doubt and the fatwa "she is only required to fast one day" regarding missed fasts?
What is the expiation for masturbating during the daytime in Ramadan—given the uncertainty and ignorance of its ruling—for someone whose age was between 13 and 15 years, and was he considered an adult and accountable at that time?
Is it permissible to delay making up the missed days of Ramadan until after the next Ramadan, given that the day is long and the Maghrib prayer is at approximately nine in the evening, and is it true that it is not permissible to fast during the second half of Sha‘ban to prepare the body for Ramadan?
What is the ruling on making up an inverted fast due to ignorance, and is it sufficient, and is it obligatory to repeat it after knowing the ruling, given the difficulty of repeating it?
Is the marriage of a man who did not regularly perform prayers until the age of thirty-four, and committed abominations such as abortion and breaking fast in Ramadan, then married at thirty-six, valid? And what are the implications for the prayers and fasting he intentionally missed?
Is it obligatory to offer the expiation of feeding sixty needy people for each day one intentionally broke their fast in Ramadan, and how can the number of unknown days be estimated, and is the feeding to take place in the country where the breaking of the fast occurred?
How can what Umm Atiyyah said—that yellowness and a brownish discharge after purification are not considered anything—be reconciled with the fatwas that consider yellowness and a brownish discharge during the menstruation period (15 days) as menstruation, even if they appear after seeing the sign of purity? And what should a woman do if she fasts compensatory days and then sees yellowness before the completion of 15 days of menstruation?
What is the expiation for a false oath, and what is incumbent upon one who doubts whether they swore an oath and then broke it or not, and what should one begin with first if they have accumulated both the expiation for making up missed days of Ramadan and the expiation for an oath?
Is the death of a mother while she is fasting in the last ten days of Ramadan considered a sign of a good ending, and what is the legal ruling regarding the days she broke her fast due to surgery and menstruation, and is it permissible to fast on her behalf, and what is the ruling on keeping her pictures, and are all visions of the deceased true?
Is it obligatory for one who was observing the fasting of David to make up for missed days due to menstruation?
What is the legal ruling regarding not making up for many days of fasting from Ramadan for seven years, due to a chronic illness that prevents both fasting and making up for missed fasts?
Is a patient who suffers from continuous sweating and the presence of deposits and sand in the urinary tract, and knows with certainty that he will be exposed to severe pain and urination of blood if he fasts, obliged to fast until these symptoms appear and then break his fast, or is he permitted to break his fast immediately, and what are the consequences in both cases?
Is the expiation for making up missed fasts repeated with the repetition of years?
Must I make up the prayers and fasting that I missed in the past, based on my mistaken belief that the age of legal majority (baligh) is only menstruation, and that I did not intend to fast during the night with a firm intention?
Is it permissible to pay a fidya for 40 days of missed fasting due to illness and the difficulty of making them up, and what is the value of the fidya?
What is the ruling on kissing a friend on the mouth? Is it permissible to break the fast in Ramadan due to strenuous work? What is the expiation for intentionally breaking the fast during Ramadan? Is there a way to repent from sodomy? And is the repentance of one who swears and promises not to return to sin, then returns to it, accepted?
Is it obligatory to make up for the Ramadan fasts of the years in which I reached puberty partially, and the years in which I fasted voluntarily and not obligatorily, with a clarification of the ruling on feeding the poor in each case?
Is it necessary to pay expiation on behalf of my brother who does not fast?
What is the ruling on a woman who broke her fast during Ramadan for eight years due to illness, and did not feed a poor person due to financial hardship, except for five days in a year?
Is it permissible to fast the Day of Arafah while still owing days from Ramadan?
Is it permissible to fast for the missed days and then give charity for them all at once after completing the make-up for all the days, or is it obligatory to give charity for each day on the day of its fasting?
Is it permissible for someone who owes fasting days to seek forgiveness, knowing that one of the conditions for the acceptance of seeking forgiveness is to establish Allah's religion?
What is the expiation for husband and wife having sexual intercourse during the daytime in Ramadan for 11 days, knowing that they regret it and wish to repent, and that they are traveling in a foreign country (China) and cannot fast there?