Tamara Gray – Fasting in Shawwal

When you come off of Ramadan, if you are a woman, you have probably

six to seven days that you need to make up. Some will have 10. Some

will have 15. As we go into Shoal, you will have another six or seven

days or 10 or 15 that you can't fast. So for some women, it is

literally impossible to make up all of your Qatar fast in Shoal

and do the six sunnahs.

So the question is, what is what are we going to do? Then, how are

we managing our fast? And I've also realized that a lot of women

are not making up the fast from one year to the next, and so they

are piling up fasts. And then some women even are are doing Sunda

fast, but not making up their fast. So all of this has really

motivated me to talk about and talk about this and really think

about this. And how are we interacting with our fasting? How

are we interacting with other fasting? How are we interacting

with sunnah fasting? And what does that mean for us as women,

especially a lot of women have, on top of the week or so of Ramadan

to make up, they have days of

a whole ramadans From the time that someone told them they

couldn't fast when they're pregnant or nursing, and so they

have all these days.

It's a lot of days, and it's a, it's a, it's a difficult thing for

so many women. We are losing our understanding of the importance of

funneled losing our understanding of the role that fuddled has in

our lives.

Now our funneled fasting, I'm going to we have fuddled fasting.

We have photo prayers that need making up. I'm only going to talk

about fasting right now our followed fasting is something we

owe God. We have a debt to Allah

and a very beautiful opportunity to pay it back, and that can be

paid back at any time. Followed is first before sun. It is the most

important thing, and as many women have many days to make up, I

suggest that you don't worry about Sanna. Leave it to the side right

now, do your kada fast and yes, as quickly as possible. Now, if you

can do those kada fasts in Shawal and gain the benefit of shawan.

Alhamdulillah, maybe you do six of them. Maybe do six of your and

show what. Because you're saying to yourself, you know, I know the

Prophet sallallahu mentioned six days of shawar. I want to just

have a nod to that. I know a lot of women who make up their fast on

Mondays and Thursdays. They make them up in the days of the Hijjah.

That doesn't mean they're combining two intentions. It means

they understand there's blessing of fasting in those days, and so

they're fasting on those days to make up their.