Making Up Missed Fasts
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Is it obligatory to prioritize making up for missed Ramadan fasts over fasting for an expiation for an oath (kaffarat al-yameen), or is it permissible to do otherwise?
What is the ruling on one who suffers from severe thirst during the daytime in Ramadan to the extent of vomiting, dizziness, and general weakness, which compels him to drink water, while maintaining his prayers, remembrance of Allah, and recitation of the Quran?
What is the ruling on making up the fast of the first day of Ramadan for those who come from a country where the sighting of the crescent has been confirmed to a country where it has not been confirmed, and is the fast of those who fasted valid?
Is it obligatory to fast the five consecutive days that I missed due to illness, or can I fast them non-consecutively?
What is incumbent upon one who broke their fast for many days in Ramadan due to their inability to study while fasting: is it making up the days (qada'), expiation (kaffarah), or both?
Is it prescribed for someone who is accustomed to fasting Mondays and Thursdays, or something similar, to make up a day that he missed due to an excuse or without an excuse?
What should one do who has had intercourse during the daytime in Ramadan and is unable to fast consecutively, does not own a slave to free, does not possess enough to feed his family, and has 7 days of make-up fasts from previous Ramadans? And how does one repent from this sin?
Is ignorance of the rulings of man-made laws and loving a disbeliever for himself considered among the matters known by necessity to be part of the religion, such that ignorance of them entails disbelief or apostasy, and necessitates making up missed Ramadan fasts?
Is the pilgrim who erred in stoning the Jamarat on the twelfth day, then returned and stoned them at night, considered a "muta'ajjil" (one who hastens to depart) or is he obligated to spend the night in Mina and stone on the following day?
What is the ruling regarding a breastfeeding woman in postpartum bleeding (nifas), if we adopt the view that pregnant and breastfeeding women should feed the poor in Ramadan?
Does a mother who, in her youth, ignorantly missed some days of fasting intend to make up those days, or to fast voluntary days such as Mondays and Thursdays?
Is it permissible to change the intention of a supererogatory fast to a make-up fast after having fasted several days of supererogatory fasts, knowing that I was unaware of the obligation of making up fasts before observing the supererogatory ones, and is it permissible to change the intention during the same day?
What should I do regarding the prayers and fasting that I missed before becoming religiously committed, and what must I do to rectify what I ruined with the girl with whom I had a previous relationship, knowing that she is not yet married and is still not religiously committed?
Is a woman's fast valid if she is making up for missed Ramadan fasts and experiences yellowish discharge during her menstrual period, knowing that she did not see blood and did not stop praying?
What must a wife do who suffers from low blood pressure, which prevents her from fasting? Can she pay a sum of money to feed the poor? Is it permissible for her to direct this money to an Islamic charitable organization that provides food and aid to Islamic countries affected by wars?
What is the ruling on someone who begins the suhoor a little before Fajr, intending to fast if they can finish before the time, and if not, then not? And does this differ between obligatory and supererogatory fasts? And is the intention to make up a day from Ramadan sufficient, or must the specific day to be made up be specified?
Is it permissible to divide the expiatory payment (fidya) for the Ramadan fast on behalf of the deceased, such that half of it is given to a needy person and the other half to the sister who is in need of treatment, with the second part's payment delayed until after Ramadan?
What must a girl do, for whom the bleeding did not cease throughout the month of Ramadan, after she reached puberty on its first day, and thus broke her fast for the entire month?
Is it permissible to feed a poor person for each day, in lieu of fasting the many days you missed due to illness?
Must a bewitched woman who does not pray, fast, or tolerate hearing the Qur'an, and is sometimes not in full control of her mental faculties, offer expiation by feeding the needy if Ramadan comes?
Does the obligation to refrain from prayer and fasting for forty days apply to a woman who miscarried her fetus in the third month and is unmarried?
Should a woman feed a poor person for each day she has to make up, or for all the days at once after she finishes making them up?
Is there an expiation for someone who delayed making up for the days they missed in Ramadan for three or four years? And what is due from someone who bought merchandise for $100 using a "fake or stolen visa [card]"?
Is it permissible to count the current days of making up for Ramadān fasts as making up for previous years after having intended them to make up for the current year and then abandoning this intention after completing the fasting?