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Monday, 2, October, 2006 (10, Ramadhan, 1427)
Pregnancy, Nursing and Fasting
Edited by Adil Salahi
Q. I could not fast during the last two years because I was pregnant
first and then I was breast-feeding my child. On doctors' advice, I felt that I
should not fast. How should I compensate for non-fasting?
Ummu Salma
A. Women often find themselves in the situation where they are pregnant
one year and breast-feeding the next year. If this carries on for a few years
during the reproductive period in a woman's life, it is likely she will not be
able to fast for several years. If she is required to make up for all this in
fasting, she will find herself with a very heavy load of compensation, that she
may not be able to manage. Since Islam is both practical and easy to implement,
God has allowed women in such a situation to resort to the other method of
compensation, which is to feed a poor person two meals for each day of
non-fasting.
This means that the lady reader should make this sort of compensation,
feeding a poor person for sixty days, or sixty poor persons for one day, or any
combination of the two, provided always that for each day, she gives one poor
person two meals of the average type her family gets in normal time
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