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Sick and bedridden, and unable to fast

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Categories of people fasting, Fatwa, Fasting [صوم] 28 June 2015 Abu 'Abdullaah

An elderly woman of 85 years of age, is sick and bedridden and cannot stand – not even to use the bathroom. The question: Is salaah and fasting obligatory upon her? Please advise us and may Allaah reward you with good.

Heart condition and unable to fast

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Categories of people fasting, Fatwa, Fasting [صوم] 27 June 2015 Abu 'Abdullaah

I inform your eminence that I am a man of 80 years of age, and I am afflicted by an illness of the arteries and the heart.

Hemiplegia, high blood pressure, diabetes and heart condition

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Categories of people fasting, Fatwa, Fasting [صوم] 25 June 2015 Abu 'Abdullaah

My mother is between 85 and 90 years of age, and has been afflicted with hemiplegia of the left side along with high blood pressure, diabetes and a heart condition. All this is based upon the doctor’s report.

The diabetic during Ramadhaan

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Categories of people fasting, Fatwa, Fasting [صوم] 24 June 2015 Abu 'Abdullaah

I have a wife who is approximately 85 years of age; She is a Muslimah and in shaa.-Allaah she is from among the good people. During the latter years of her life, she has been afflicted with diabetes and has reached such a state of weakness that she has to be hospitalised and becomes unconscious, and sometimes when she is at home.

Suffering from intermittent excretion of semen

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Making-up the missed days & expiation, That which does & does not break the fast, Fatwa, Fasting [صوم] 6 June 2015 Abu 'Abdullaah

Whilst fasting in Ramadhaan, I suffer from an intermittent excretion of semen without having a wet dream or masturbating. So does this affect my fast?

Had a nosebleed whilst fasting

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Making-up the missed days & expiation, That which does & does not break the fast, Fatwa, Fasting [صوم] 6 June 2015 Abu 'Abdullaah

Ramadhaan, while I was fasting I had a nose bleed and the blood entered my body (i.e. flowed down the back of my throat and into the stomach).

Overcome by vomiting whilst fasting

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, Making-up the missed days & expiation, That which does & does not break the fast, Fatwa, Fasting [صوم] 28 May 2015 Abu 'Abdullaah

Is the one who is overcome by vomiting during the day in Ramadhaan required to make up [the fast for that day]?

Applying eyeliner and dying hair whilst fasting

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, That which does & does not break the fast, Fatwa, Fasting [صوم] 25 May 2015 Abu 'Abdullaah

Is the fast of the woman who applies al-kohl (eyeliner) and dyes her hair during the day in Ramadhaan broken or not?

Looking at immodestly dressed women whilst fasting

The Permanent Committee for Islaamic Research & Verdicts, That which does & does not break the fast, Fatwa, Other issues pertaining to the fast, Fasting [صوم] 24 May 2015 Abu 'Abdullaah

Does going out during the day in Ramadhaan to attend to one’s needs and then being struck by the immodestly dressed women [who uncover those parts of the body which are prohibited to uncover] invalidate the fast or not?