 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته Welcome to Ahkam SOS The Ramadan Special I hope you have it, very very blessed Ramadan And Insha'Allah. You know eating too much I'm your host Mosin Shah and joining me is Sheikh Ali Ma'aash السلام عليكم Sheikhna How are you, how's your fast going? Alhamdulillah I've sent, I've sent We've been discussing fasting We've been discussing the Niaw fasting and how to fast Certain people are actually exempted from fasting can we go through a couple of examples of who does not have to fast in the month of Ramadan أعوذ بالله السميع العليم من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصر الله على محمد وآله الطيبين الطاهرين there are certain individuals that fasting is not wajib and obligatory on them one of them is the one in which fasting is very difficult due to being in the old age the elderly ones for example those who are let's say in the 80s 90s 70s sometimes they can't fast they have to eat something during the day in the morning they have to have breakfast they can't fast a whole day then they're exempted from fasting other individuals for example the pregnant woman the one who's expecting baby for example and they call it the one who is expecting nearly so the one who's expecting to have a child okay so we're I think in English we're heavily pregnant or coming towards the end of the nine months exactly the delivery date is very close by exactly but even if that woman who is pregnant in her first months and she cannot fast she finds a difficulty in fasting or it would be a danger for her fetus to remain alive and to remain in her womb then she has to break her fast and also the woman who is giving breast milk to the baby who was born and that might harm the baby or okay because the baby is feeding exactly but she's also exempted exempted from fasting on that day and of course the issue of traveling if you travel outside your hometown and you go away more than 22 km going on coming so roughly 45 km you go let's say you go from London to Luton and you come back so in Luton you can break your fast for example it's more than 22 km is that the same amount of distance for Qasr Salah exactly the same whenever you see this is the rule whenever you break whenever you do the Qasr Salah then you break your fast that's the rule whenever there's Qasr you break your fast okay this attachment between the Qasr Salah shortening of your Salah and shortening of the fast basically breaking fast okay breaking the fast exactly and what about those who are ill and sick for example those who are diabetic who need to inject themselves exactly they also exempt from fasting those who cannot bear fasting for the whole day they need injection to swallow tablets for example and specific medication they have to follow that and I was during the day those who are sick in a specific ailment then they are exempt as well but as I've said it has to be as Proust said it has to be a severe condition so it's not just well I have a cold or a fever then I'll just break my fast or it's just an illness that won't harm me it depends on let's say the level of diabetics one, two I don't know the level how extreme it is can you actually fast without any issue? fine if the doctor says you can't fast that's fine there's no issue with it okay so you must and you think that you can fast then go for it then go for it but if it's harming you then fast it depends the condition and if you are exempted from fasting is there القضاء or a kafara or is there an alternative or are you just totally exempt you don't have to fast and you don't have to worry about anything else carry on well there's two scenarios here number one if the condition let's say the woman stops feeding the baby her milk and she didn't fast the whole month from Ramadan in this year so for the next upcoming year and before the next Ramadan if she stops giving the baby the breast milk then she must do the قضاء okay but if she continued the breast feeding till the next Ramadan then there's no more قضاء so she enters the second Ramadan and is still giving the breast milk to the baby no sometimes two years to be exempted even the قضاء there's no more for the first of Ramadan the first year of Ramadan in this case so the قضاء only lasts from one Ramadan to another Ramadan yeah for the for such cases for such cases if the illness continues let's say somebody is if the illness if they can't repay the قضاء in that one year that is it's dropped you don't have to worry about it exactly yes okay شكرا if someone is exempted from fasting is there something else that they can do instead of fasting or is it okay I'm not fasting I'm not fasting don't have to worry about anything that's it or is there some sort of alternative substitute that they can do okay you're not fasting maybe you can you know give some money to the poor or something well initially for those who let's say they are ill or they have critical conditions they can't fast in this case they can give what is called as a mood okay so the not fasting that day due to illness for example pregnancy breastfeeding and so forth they have to give one mood per day that they did not fast and mood is for those who don't know mood is actually a weight isn't it weight it was a measuring unit exactly it's roughly how much today 750 grams 750 grams exactly 750 grams so they give 750 grams per day that they didn't fast okay let's say if the pregnant woman didn't fast for the whole month and it was only 29 days they give 750 grams per day for the rest of 29 days okay and that's given to the poor as a food so you have to buy food 750 grams yeah so I was going to ask you 750 grams of what yeah exactly so it's like wheat barley and so forth okay so grains grains exactly you buy them food because you can't just give cash away and walk away you have to make sure they buy with it food such as the can I give other things can I give milk can I give meat can I give what is mentioned in the مسألة is wheat barley dates raisins and so forth these are the main ones okay which are mentioned in the مسألة and that's given as I've said to the poor person so this is the first scenario for those who will do the about later on so let's say the one who was breastfeeding now she's finished she stopped giving the baby the milk anymore and she wants to do the قباء so she just gives one mood per day okay and that's it but let's say the case of not being able to fast continues till the next and the second Ramadan the month of Ramadan of the next year which means she can't do the قباء of the current year of Ramadan what is outstanding she can't repay that by the next Ramadan exactly in this case she has to pay the first mood which is the 750 grams per day on top of that she has to pay another mood extra mood for not being able to fast that of that year of that day okay is this still considered for the year or is this some sort of penalty like a kafara you see there's this difference between for the year and kafara okay kafara is when somebody deliberately breaks it fast he eats or drinks so that's a penalty that's a penalty that he has to for example fast 60 continuous days or give um to 64 food for example okay and so forth so that's the kafara of those who intentionally break their fast okay so that's a penalty that's a penalty that's kafara it's called yes to do with those who can't fast okay due to a is this something like compensation towards Ramadan you can say that yeah it's an alternative or a substitute exactly so you were saying the lady breastfeeding exactly it's been one year she couldn't repay what was outstanding she couldn't do the kafara exactly so she has to give the mood for what she's missed yes and an extra mood on top per day yes so that's two mood a day wow that's 1.5 kilograms a day yes of wheat barley and so forth to give it to the poor person because she she wouldn't be able to do the kafara that year of month Ramadan and she's now entering the second year of Ramadan month Ramadan and she's still breastfeeding for example okay or she's having the second pregnancy for example and so forth in this case they have to pay true mood to fulfill this requirement the third year is this wajib or is it mustahab or is it to stop you doing the qadr no it's wajib it's wajib because you're not fasting exactly you have to do it's not that you're not fasting you're exempt because you're exempt from fasting you have to pay the fidea exactly you have to do the alternative or the substitute and because you couldn't do the qadr as well during that year okay there's an extra one exactly you have to do so there's one for missing it in Ramadan and there's one for not being able to pay the qadr exactly okay so sheikhna if I'm exempted from fasting for example I'm ill or something like that and I pay the fidea does that exempt me from the qadr or do I have to pay I have to give the fidea and do the qadr as well well in this case let's say that if you were ill for 10 days during the month of Ramadan and then you became all afterwards and you continue fasting for the rest of the month from Ramadan after this holy month initially you have to do the qadr of that 10 days and also pay the fidea for every day that I couldn't fast due to the illness so you pay the fidea the 750 grams per day of the illness and also you have to do the qadr okay so you have to pay the fidea fidea because you were exempted and now that you are capable of doing the fast you would do the qadr as well is there a time limit on the qadr and also on the fidea is there do I have to do it straight away as in the day I didn't fast is the day I have to go and give fidea or is there a time limit for this amount of time you have to give something to the poor well with regard to fasting the qadr you must make sure that you do the qadr before the end of the month of Shaban before the next forthcoming month of Ramadan the next year that's important so you have 11 months from the first month of Ramadan to the next one to do the qadr so you have to make sure that you do the qadr within this limit so from the day after the fidea exactly all the way to the end of Shaban exactly between you have to repay your qadr exactly so basically the exemptions are pregnant women those who are traveling those who are ill is there any other ones? those who are reaching the age okay old age and it's difficult for them to fast exactly the mother who breastfeeds her baby for example and it's harming the baby if she does do the fasting okay so she's exempted as well and then if you are exempted you have a fidea to pay and when you are capable you should repay the fast exactly before the next Ramadan if you can't you have a double fidea to pay if you don't do the qadr and the next month from Ramadan yes comes then you have to pay to fidea not being able to do the qadr and for not fasting that day and thank you very much to all our viewers for joining us on this episode Insha'Allah you are not exempted from your fast and that you are capable and healthy enough to complete all of them Insha'Allah until next time السلام عليكم رحمة الله وبركاته