{"id":3614,"date":"2011-11-04T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T15:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2011-11-04T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T15:37:52","slug":"a-person-is-healthy-but-is-unable-to-fast-for-60-days-continuously-does-he-have-the-option-to-feed-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/a-person-is-healthy-but-is-unable-to-fast-for-60-days-continuously-does-he-have-the-option-to-feed-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"A person is healthy, but is unable to fast for 60 days continuously does he have the option to feed instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person is healthy, but is unable to fast for 60 days\u00a0continuously; because of\u00a0difficulty\u00a0and\u00a0inconvenience due to work etc. does he have any other option for kaffarah?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Answer<\/h1>\n<p>Allah (SWA) says \u201c\u2026And for him who is unable to do so, he should feed sixty of destitute.\u201d (Surah Mujadalah v.4)<\/p>\n<p>The upshot of the verse is that a person who is unable to fast due to ill health or is too old to fast; he or she will be allowed to feed sixty destitute instead of fasting for sixty days consecutively.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the conclusion we can come to is that it is not permissible for a healthy person to forgo the kaffarah of fasting and feed sixty destitute instead. (Fatawa Darul Uloom Deoband p.456 v.6)<\/p>\n<p>Only Allah Knows Best<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/p>\n<p>Darul Ifta Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person is healthy, but is unable to fast for 60 days\u00a0continuously; because of\u00a0difficulty\u00a0and\u00a0inconvenience due to work etc. does he have any other option for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}