Qada
*Qada* is performing a missed obligatory act of worship at a later time.
What it means for me: Most questions in this chapter share one shape: I missed something, so what now? Qada answers that the act is not gone; it is owed later. Qada is not a punishment. It is the ordinary way what was missed gets made up, once the excuse that caused the miss has passed.
Example: A woman missed several days of fasting for a valid reason during Ramadan. The answer she reads tells her she owes qada: the same number of days, fasted at another time.
Do not confuse with: *Ada* and *i'adah*. Ada is done inside the time, and qada is done after it. I'adah repeats an act within the same time, for a defect. The same word also names a judge's ruling in court, a different sense entirely.
If scholars differ: Some scholars require qada fasts to be made up on consecutive days; others allow separate days. They also differ on what is owed by someone who delayed qada without excuse until the next Ramadan arrived. The difference is named here as a difference and not decided; the mufti is the reference.
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What are Divine Decree (Qada’) and Divine Preordainment (Qadar)? Does it mean Allah’s writing of what the servant will do, then His will and creation of the action, then the servant’s performance of it? And does this conform to the creed of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama’ah (the People of the Sunnah and the Community)?
The four levels of divine decree are: knowledge, writing, will, and creation. Knowledge is eternal, while writing is a temporal event that occurred fifty thousand years before the creation of the heavens and the earth.…
Is my wife permitted to break her fast in Ramadan due to her pregnancy and its accompanying symptoms? Does she only have to make up for the days (qada') or make up for them along with feeding the poor (qada' and it'am)? And how does she make up for the days from last Ramadan about which she is unsure?
A pregnant woman is permitted to break her fast if she fears for herself or her child. She is only required to make up the days (qada') if she broke her fast fearing for herself. However, if she broke her fast fearing…
Is performing the Fajr Sunnah immediately after Fajr prayer and before the Fajr time expires considered a make-up (Qada') or on-time (Ada') performance?
Scholars have differed regarding the permissibility of performing the Fajr sunnah (supererogatory prayer) after the obligatory prayer and before sunrise. Among those who permitted its performance, there were varying…
Questions that use it
What is the ruling of the Shari'ah concerning a pregnant woman who intentionally induced vomiting to alleviate pregnancy symptoms, being unaware that doing so invalidates the fast, and has now stopped doing it? Is she required to make up the fast (qada'), or both make up the fast and offer expiation (qada' and kaffarah), or is nothing required of her?
Is merely getting up for Suhur before Fajr with the intention of making up a fast (qada') sufficient as a nia (intention), even without uttering it or specifying it for qada'?
Is it true that divine decree (qada’) in Islam is not divided into absolute (mubram) and suspended (mu’allaq) decree, and that, according to the Sunnis, there is only absolute decree?