Fidya & Kaffrah

Fidya is to be paid in circumstances where one is unable to fast due to helplessness. A donation of £4 per missed fast (days) is required for everyone. This donation aims to feed the hungry two meals a day. Some examples of where fidya would be due include:

• The permanently ill

• Elderly people who are unable to fast

• Those in need of regular medication if their wellbeing could be affected

• Those with any form of mental illness

If fasting is not possible for the whole month of Ramadan, the total is £120.

This is a major compensation. If a person breaks a fast intentionally, Kaffarah would then be binding as the form of redemption.

If a Ramadhan fast is broken intentionally, one would need to fast for sixty consecutive days – which is the Kaffarah – and then observe one qadha fast.

If more than one fast is broken intentionally, one will be required to compensate with one Kaffarah – by fasting sixty consecutive days – and a qadha fast for each extra fast broken.

If one cannot do these fasts due to poor health or old age then one must feed sixty poor persons.