Aarij Anwer – Do pregnant women make up the missed fasts of Ramadan?

			This question is related to making up your fast due to pregnancy or, and or breastfeeding. Do I have
to pay anything before Ramadan? Or do I just make up my thoughts when I'm not pregnant or
breastfeeding at that time? This is actually a question that has a lot of a lot of variance in
understanding between the scholars.
		

			And you know, there is some texts from the prophets of Salaam about this like a hadith from the
pasta lamp.
		

			And the Ayad are actually open ended about this, right, because the IRS says, or either ladina up
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			should do this should, should feed a person, right. And this is this is explained as someone who is
sick chronically to can't recover, they're not going to get any better, or someone who's old, and
they're not going, they're not getting any younger. So fasting is not going to become easier next
year for them. Right. So for them, they feed a person and that's it. And then you have the other
scenario where a person has to make up the fast. So
		

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			traveling outside of their city, or someone who is sick temporarily, then they don't fast in
Ramadan. Those days that they're sick are the days they're traveling, they just make it up
afterwards. And then you also have the clear cut example of the woman who is on her monthly period.
She is exempted from fasting, and then she will make up that fast after him a lot. So these are the
clear cut scenarios that I add on holidays are quite obvious about that. The question about
pregnancy and breastfeeding is, well, where does a woman fit? Is she like someone who is sick
temporarily? Or is she like someone who is maybe unable to do so? Because she's had so many
		

			pregnancies and real scenario? This is something that has happens in families is a woman get
pregnant? And she would have issue Mr. Ramadan, then she has a year or year and a half, maybe two
years of breastfeeding, she misses two more Ramadan's. And she gets pregnant again, she misses the
fourth Ramadan, and just two more years of you know, breastfeeding that six years, man, and then she
gets pregnant again. And next thing you know, that's a decade of fast she has missed, right? So
you're gonna ask her to make up 300 fasts. I mean, that's a lot of fasting, you know, ladies in a
lot of trouble.
		

			All right, so this is where the scholars have some differences. I'm going to read you a few opinions
here inshallah, and then I'll give you my take john, so you have number of opinion number one here.
I lay him on Koba forgot, this is the IE mother upon them to is the pregnant lady and the lady who
is breastfeeding, right who is nursing her child.
		

			This is the opinion or this is the position of Imam Abu hanifa. Right. And Ali, you know, the one
who from the Sahaba that's his position as well that they have to make it up irrespective of how
many they have missed. Okay.
		

			The second position here is
		

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			The second position is of an Imam Shafi who say that if the woman is afraid, right of her well being
right, she is afraid that this is going to fasting is going to hurt her, her held, the child is
going to be fine, but she's going to be you know,
		

			she's going to be compromised, right? Then she has to just make up the fast. Okay? If she feels
she's afraid that the child will be harmed, then she has to feed a poor person and also make up the
fast afterwards. Right? Here's we're assuming that they're not fasting at all. The pregnant lady and
the breastfeeding lady are not fasting, if they can fast that's their choice. By the way. Like my
wife she fasted through a couple of my kids pregnancy she was, you know, able to do so it was in the
summer fast. Right? But others she wasn't able to. Right. So this is assuming that the woman is not
fasting. All right. The third position is it human Ramu forgot what are called La La Hema ovalbumin
		

			Sahaba Abdullah in our bustle, the Rama haka, who will Kodama fake money on an island. Okay. The
third position here is they have to only feed a poor person and there is no makeup of the
		

			And this is the position of Abdullah bin Arbus
		

			on Houma and
		

			Omar as well this is his position. Okay.
		

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			so do you have a bunch of options? Right? I would say it goes back to the situation right? That goes
back to you know a situation for example let me just read this to you as well kind of numbers your
Julio mela who habla and NTV Mandela de la de la to people who for Allah kill Fatah wa barlick.
Okay, you know, me, Nebraska to a pregnant lady that you are in the position of or near in the same
same situation, sister, same circumstance as the person who is unable to fast like an old person or
someone's chronically ill. So you just give a failure? And there is no making up the fast right? So
that's the text from the Sahaba. There, okay. So you have a whole host of opinions, right? And this
		

			matter, and we're loving it, I think the best thing to do here is to go back to the situation. If
the situation is the lady has only missed like one or more button, right? of fasting, then the best
thing is you make it up, okay? You make it up? If it's been many Ramadan's, right, like that's five
six Ramadan's in a row, she has missed, that's just gonna take a lifetime to catch up to that right
150 to 100. And fast, you know, even though she's fasting, I don't know.
		

			Like, say, four times a week, right? Or say four times a month, but she's fasting once a once a
week, four times a month, or say once every week that's 48 fests excluding Ramadan, right, that will
take her close to five years of just making up all those fasts that she has missed outside of all
those normal lungs, you see. So that's a very big undertaking. And if a person wants to take that on
hamdulillah there's good insight in that. But I would say in that case, you take the opinion of
Abdullah in our bus and even Omar and just feed right so it's case by case how many how many fasts
Have you missed? If you missed a few make it okay. If you have missed a lot of fasts because of
		

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