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Ignorant
about obligation of fasting
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Question: Ten years ago, I reached adolescence
as a result of the passing of it's known signs. So in my first
year of puberty I let Ramadhaan pass without fasting and this
was without a valid, Islaamic reason but, rather, out of ignorance
about it's obligation at that time. Do I have to make up those
days I missed and do I have to do anything other than make
up those days such as expiation?
Response:
You have to make up the days you missed for that particular
month which you did not fast, in addition to making repentance
and seeking forgiveness. Also, you have to feed a poor person
for every day missed and it's amount is half a saa'a of the
food of the land such as dates, rice or other than these,
if you are able to do that. If you are poor and unable to
do so, then nothing is required of you except (fasting) the
days you missed.
Shaykh
Ibn Baaz
Fataawa Ramadhaan - Volume 2, Page 559, Fatwa No. 542;
al-Fataawa libni Baaz - Kitaab ad-Da'wah, Volume 2, Page 158
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