• Prayers & Duties >> Sawm (Fasting)

    Question ID: 16185Country: India

    Title: Aslamalakum , my question is my wife is pregnent five month passed, now ramadan month is going on and she can live fasting or she should keep fasting. during fasting she become tired and filling not well. please give the answer what is the actul rule for fasting during preganancy and what is kaffara or qada.

    Question: Aslamalakum , my question is my wife is pregnent five month passed, now ramadan month is going on and she can live fasting or she should keep fasting. during fasting she become tired and filling not well. please give the answer what is the actul rule for fasting during preganancy and what is kaffara or qada.

    Answer ID: 16185

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 1528/1209/L=1430)

     

    A woman should keep fasts in pregnancy as well. But, if she fears her life or the life of the foetus, she is permitted not to fast. If a pregnant woman, misses the fasts due to some compulsion, she will only make up the missed fasts later, there is no kaffarah on her.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India