Making Up Missed Fasts
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What should a person do who embraced Islam on the seventh of Ramadan and fasted the remainder of it, then the following Ramadan overtook him and he did not fast the first seven days?
Is a woman's fast valid if she miscarried a fetus of six weeks' gestation during the day in Ramadan and completed her fast, considering the blood discharged as corrupt blood and not nifas blood?
Is it obligatory to make up for (missed fasts) for one who masturbated during the daytime in Ramadan while unaware of its prohibition, and what if this occurred repeatedly over most days of several previous Ramadans?
Is the wife obligated to offer expiation along with making up for missed Ramadan fasts due to pregnancy, or is making them up sufficient, and when should expiation be offered along with making them up?
Must one who broke fast in successive Ramadans due to an illicit relationship make up the missed fasts consecutively or intermittently? And does she owe expiation by feeding for each day? Is it permissible to give the expiation in money? And if the number of needy persons is not available, is it permissible to give it to a single person?
What is the intention for making up overdue Ramadan fasts from many years ago, and does the expiation for delaying the make-up fasts multiply with the number of years, or is it the expiation for a single day? Is it permissible to give the cost of two meals to a needy person for each day of delay?
What should I do about my fasting in Ramadan, as a young man on holiday in Europe, knowing that I now suffer from diabetes?
Is it permissible to pay expiation for the days I missed fasting in previous Ramadans due to a legitimate reason, without making them up, knowing that I suffer from extreme emaciation (my height is 165 cm and my weight is 38 kg) and low blood pressure, and I work long hours, and I fast Ramadan with extreme difficulty?
Must a wife make up for the missed days of Ramadan fasting before offering expiation, and is it permissible to send the expiation to another country that has no poor people?
What is the expiation for the years that my friend did not fast, from the age of eighteen to twenty-five, due to an illicit relationship and sexual intercourse? Does she have to make up approximately 240 consecutive days without interruption? And does she have to feed 30 needy persons for each month as expiation for delaying the make-up?
What is the ruling on Tarawih prayer for someone who missed fasting for 20 days of Ramadan in his youth and has now repented, and what must he do to compensate for the missed fasting?
What should my 54-year-old mother do, who previously broke her fast in Ramadan with and without a valid excuse, and is now repentant, but does not know the number of days she missed and is unable to fast all of them?
Is it permissible for the living to fast on behalf of the dead? Is it permissible to intend fasting on behalf of both the father and the mother on a single day? And is it obligatory to fast consecutive days, or is it permissible to fast on Mondays and Thursdays?
What are the best deeds whose reward reaches the deceased, and what is the ruling on prayer, fasting, charity, 'Umrah, Hajj, reciting the Qur'an, and supplicating for the deceased, given that the deceased mother missed some prayers and fasting due to illness?
What should I do regarding making up for two past Ramadan fasts missed due to postpartum bleeding (nifas), menstruation (hayd), and irregular vaginal bleeding (istihada), knowing that fasting causes me severe fatigue because I suffer from chronic migraine?
Must a woman who broke her fast for a number of days in Ramadan due to pregnancy-related bleeding, and does not remember the exact number of these days after about six years, make them up?
Do the six days of Shawwal's White Fasting count as making up for the days missed in Ramadan, or must the missed days be made up separately?
Is the fasting of a woman who felt wetness—without being sure if it was a discharge—after imagining her husband while she was making up a missed fast invalidated, and does she owe expiation if her fasting is invalidated?
Is it permissible to fast six or seven consecutive months to make up for missed Ramadan fasts during childhood, and does this fall under the prohibition of perpetual fasting?
Must one make up for missed Ramadan fasts from many years ago, or is the obligation to make them up waived due to the passage of their specified time, especially given the difficulty this entails for some penitent women?
Is a make-up fast (for a woman) considered "fasting in the path of Allah" as stated in the noble Hadith: "Whoever fasts one day in the path of Allah, Allah will distance him from Hellfire the distance of a hundred years"?
Does a person have to make up for the days they missed fasting in Ramadan due to their scrupulousness about saliva scattering on their lips while speaking or reciting the Qur’an, especially if they feel the need to constantly wipe their lips?
What is incumbent upon a woman who, for several years, broke her fast on most days of Ramadan, ignorantly, with a valid excuse, and without a valid excuse, and did not make up those days and cannot determine their number? And is it obligatory for her to fast along with feeding [the poor], and what is the form of feeding [the poor]?
Is it permissible to fast the six days of Shawwal before making up a day from Ramadan?