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#RAMADAN1436AHDa y18 : LESSON THREE: The Ruling On A Sick Or
Travelling Person Fasting:
Author: Imaam Muhammad bin Saalih
Al-Uthaimeen
Allah the Most high says: ''And whoever
among you is Sick or on a journey then [he may make up] the number of missed
days on other days. Allah wants ease
for you and he does'not want to make
things difficult for you. Quran 2 vs 185.
A sick person falls into two types :
First: whoever has a chronic illness and there is no anticipation of it being cured
like CANCER for example, this person is
not required to fast. This is because he
doesnot have a condition in which it is
expected that he will be able to fast .
However for every a day missed, he must feed a needy person whether if it
is by gathering the same amount of
needy people as the days he missed and
feeding all of them at once as Anas bin
Maalik used to do when he was old. Or it
could be by dividing up the food for the needy people according to the days
missed and then giving every needy
person a quarter of a prophetic saa. This
same rules applies to an elderly person
that is not able to fast,in that he should
feed a needy person for every days missed.
Second: whoever has a temporary that
they will recover from like FEVER and its
like. This kind of illness has three
scenarios :
1. Fasting will not burden or cause harm to him. Such a sick person is obligated to
Fast since he has no excuse to abandon
it.
2. Fasting will be difficult on him but it
won't cause any harm to him. In this
situation, it is detested for him to fast because one is actually refraining from
using Allah's Concession, while at the
same time he is burdening himself.
3. Fasting will harm him, in this situation,
it is forbidden for him to fast because of
the harm that he will be inflicting upon himself. Allah says: 'And do not kill
yourselves,veri ly Allah is All-merciful to you'. Surah nisaa vs 29.
And in a hadeeth, the prophet[sallAll
ahu alayhi wasallam] said: 'There is to
be no harming [of others] nor harm[to
oneself]' reported by ibn Majaah and Al-
haakim and An-nawawee said- its part of narration strengthen one another.
One can found out if fasting will be
harmful to a sick person by [1] that
person feeling it to be harmful on
himself or by [2] him being informed by
a reliable doctor . When a person who falls under dis category of being sick
breaks his fast , he must make up the
number of missed days when he
recovers. But if he dies before he
recovers,then making up the missed
days is no longer binding upon him. Since he is only obligated to fast d
number of missed days on other days
which he was not able to reach.
To be contd from Here In Sha Allah.