PREGNANT WOMAN EXPERIENCING BLEEDING DURING RAMADAN #QUESTION: I was pregnant during the blessed month of Ramadan. I had a vaginal bleeding on Ramadan 20th, but I neither ate nor drank, i.e., I kept fasting. During my stay in the hospital I broke my Sawm (Fast) for four days. After Ramadan I made up for the days of Sawm I missed. Should I make up for them again, bearing in mind that I have not given birth yet? Please advise me, may Allah reward you. _____________ #ANSWER: Your observing Sawm while having vaginal bleeding during pregnancy has no effect on the validity of your Sawm, just like the case of Istihadah (abnormal vaginal bleeding outside the menstrual or post-partum period). Therefore, your Sawm is valid. Moreover, your making up for the four days you missed during your stay in hospital after Ramadan discharges the obligation, and you do not have to fast them again. May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions. ¤ Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ BREAST-FEEDING & BREAKING THE FAST #QUESTION: Is it permissible for a breast-feeding woman to break her fast? And when should she make up for it? And may she feed (poor people instead of fasting)? #ANSWER: If the breast-feeding woman fears that the fasting will harm her child by reducing the milk, then she may break her fast, but she must make up for it later, because she is similar to a sick person, about whom Allaah says: ... and whoever is ill or on a journey, the same number [of days which one did not observe Saum (fasts) must be made up] from other days. Allaah intends for you ease, and He does not want to make things difficult for you. [al-Baqarah 2:185] Then once the danger is past, she may make it up for, either during the winter, when the days are shorter and the weather is cooler, or, if she is unable to do it in the winter, then in the following year. But as for feeding (poor people), it is not permissible except in a situation where the thing which prevents her from fasting or the excuse for not fasting is continues, and it is not expected that it will be removed, in these circumstances, she may feed (poor people) instead of fasting. ¤ Shaykh Uthaymin Source: Fatawa Arkaanul-Islaam, DARUSSALAM, vol.2, page.643 ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ FASTING FOR THE PREGNANT OR BREAST-FEEDING WOMAN #QUESTION: Regarding the pregnant woman and the breast-feeding woman; if they fear for themselves or upon the child during the month of Ramadhaan; such that they eat, what then is due upon them? Should they eat and feed others (i.e. to the poor) and make up the fasts or should they eat and make up the fasts and not feed others or should they eat and feed others not make up for them? What is correct from these three? #ANSWER: If the pregnant woman fears for herself or for her baby for the reason of fasting during Ramadan; then she should eat and upon her is to make up for them only. Her state in that is similar to the state of the one who is sick and is unable to find strength to fast or that he fears some harm upon himself. Allaah The Most High says: And whosoever is sick or is upon a journey; then the period is made up from other days … [Soorah Al-Baqarah: 185] Likewise is the case for the breast-feeding woman if she fears for herself when she breast-feeds her child during Ramadan. Or that she fears upon her child if she were to fast and not breast-feed him, then she is to eat and upon her is to make up for them only. ¤ Permanent Committee for Research and Verdicts Source: Fataawaa Al-Lajnah ad-daaimah vol. 10 page 220 question two of fatwa number 1453
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