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13
year old daughter too weak and frail to fast during Ramadhaan
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Question:
A man who has a daughter of 13 years of age began her menses
just before the month of Ramadhaan. So he told her to fast.
However, because she was weak and frail, the fasting became
difficult for her. (As a result of this) she did not fast
the last part of the month because she was unable to do so.
Is she now required to make up the fasts for these days (she
missed) or is she relieved from doing so because of her inability
that she cannot fast?
Response:
Since this (your) daughter attained puberty just before the
month of Ramadhaan, by the presence of one of the signs of
puberty - that being her having started her menses, then fasting
has become obligatory upon her. So the days in which she left
off fasting because she was unable to fast due to being weak
and frail, then she is not relieved of these fasts, rather
she is to fast them when she is able to do so, as Allaah (Subhaanahu
wa Ta'aala) says:
{…and
whoever is ill or on a journey, the same number (of days which
one did not observe fasting must be made up) from other days},
[Soorah
al-Baqarah, Aayah
185]
And
with Allaah lies all success, and may Allaah send prayers
and salutations upon our Prophet Muhammad (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam)
and his family and his companions.
The
Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research and Fataawa,
comprising -
Head: Shaykh
Ibraheem ibn Muhammad Aal ash-Shaykh
Deputy Head: Shaykh
'Abdur-Razzaaq 'Afeefee;
Member: Shaykh
'Abdullaah Ibn Ghudayyaan;
Member: Shaykh
'Abdullaah Ibn Munee'
Fataawa Ramadhaan - Volume 1, Page 388, Fatwa No.345
Fataawa al-Lajnah ad-Daa.imah lil-Buhooth al-'Ilmiyyah wal-Iftaa.
- Fatwa No.84
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