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Ramzan Fasts Exemption Condition
I am seeking your guidance on how to compensate for missed fasts due to a severe, long-term medical condition. When I was three years old, I had three major intestinal surgeries. My doctors strictly instructed my parents that I would be physically weak until my 20s and must avoid any physical stress, including fasting, to prevent severe medical casualties. Because of this, my parents did not allow me to fast. I reached puberty around age 13, which means I have missed approximately 10 years of Ramadan fasts (around 300 days) strictly due to this prolonged medical weakness and doctor’s orders.
Alhamdulillah, I am now 24 years old, and this is the first Ramadan where my body is finally fit enough to fast throughout the day without experiencing severe dizziness or health issues. However, the thought of making up 300 missed fasts is incredibly daunting. Because my health has only just stabilized after two decades of weakness, I genuinely fear that attempting to fast hundreds of extra days outside of Ramadan could physically break my body down, reverse my health progress, and trigger the very medical emergencies my doctors spent years trying to prevent.
I have read in the Quran (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:184) regarding fasting: “And upon those who are able [to fast, but with hardship] – a ransom [as substitute] of feeding a poor person.” Given my extensive medical history of intestinal surgeries, the sheer volume of missed fasts, and the legitimate medical fear that attempting to make them up will severely harm my newly recovered health, does my situation qualify under this verse? Can I pay Fidyah to feed the poor as compensation for those past 10 years instead of making them up physically?
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Ramzan Fasts Exemption Condition
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There is no hurry to make up the missed fasts. You can keep them while marinating your health. For example, You can keep one fast a week or two fasts a month to make up the missed fasts.
However, if your medical condition doesn’t allow you to keep fast you can give fidya.
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