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    Ramadan For The Pregnant, Nursing and Elderly: Nuruddinzangi March 1, 2019

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    The document discusses guidelines for fasting during Ramadan for pregnant women, nursing women, and the elderly. It presents differing views on whether verses in the Quran allow exceptions for these groups or if the exceptions are abrogated. The majority view is that pregnant and nursing women may choose not to fast if they fear harm and instead feed the poor without making up days later. The elderly able to fast with difficulty may feed the poor each day instead. Those unable to fast are not required to feed the poor.

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    The document discusses guidelines for fasting during Ramadan for pregnant women, nursing women, and the elderly. It presents differing views on whether verses in the Quran allow exceptions for these groups or if the exceptions are abrogated. The majority view is that pregnant and nursing women may choose not to fast if they fear harm and instead feed the poor without making up days later. The elderly able to fast with difficulty may feed the poor each day instead. Those unable to fast are not required to feed the poor.

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    Ramadan for the Pregnant, Nursing and Elderly

    beneficialilm.com/2019/03/01/ramadan-for-the-pregnant-nursing-and-elderly/

    nuruddinzangi March 1,
    2019

    You who believe, fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before
    you, so that you may be mindful of God. Fast for a specific number of days, but if
    one of you is ill, or on a journey, on other days later. For those who can fast only
    with difficulty, there is a way to compensate- feed a needy person. But if anyone
    does good of his own accord, it is better for him, and fasting is better for you, if
    only you knew. (Q2: 183-4).

    Salamah ibn al-Akwa’ (ra) said: In the days of the Messenger of Allah (salla Allahu alayhi
    wa sallam), at first we used to have a choice in Ramadan: those who wanted to, fasted,
    and those who wanted to, did not fast, and compensated for it by feeding a needy
    person. This was the situation until the following verse was revealed:

    (It was in the month of Ramadan that the Quran was revealed as guidance for mankind,
    clear messages giving guidance and distinguishing between right and wrong.) So any
    one of you who is present that month should fast, (and anyone who is ill or on a
    journey should make up for the lost days by fasting on other days later. God wants ease
    for you, not hardship. He wants you to complete the prescribed period and to glorify Him
    for having guided you, so that you may be thankful). [Sahih Muslim]

    Imam Bukhari referred to this hadith of Salamah and one like it by Ibn Umar. He then
    narrated the same on the authority of the Tabi’i Ibn Abi Layla, who was told the same by
    several Companions (Sahih Bukhari – Kitab al-Sawm)

    In his Chapter of Tafsir, for verse (2:184), Imam Bukhari narrated with his chain to Ibn
    Abbas (ra):

    “For those who can fast only with difficulty, there is a way to compensate- feed a
    needy person (2:184) is not (fully) abrogated. It still applies to the elderly who cannot
    fast (but are neither sick nor travelling). They are to feed a needy person instead of each
    day.

    Imam Bukhari continued to narrate that Anas ibn Malik (ra), when he got old, stopped
    fasting and would feed a poor person every day bread and meat. He also quoted Hasan
    Basri and Ibrahim Nakhai’s opinion: which is that the elderly simply feed people, but
    those who are pregnant or nursing, and fear for themselves or for their children, they
    should not fast, and then make those days up later.

    However, Abu Dawud narrates with his chains in his Book of Fasting, in a section he
    titled: ‘Those who say [this verse] is not abrogated in relation to the elderly and pregnant’
    two hadiths of Ibn Abbas:
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    1) Qatada said: Ikrimah told him that Ibn Abbas said: ‘It is not abrogated, and remains in
    the case of those who are pregnant and nursing.’

    2) On the authority of Sa’id ibn Jubayr that Ibn Abbas said: ‘[This verse] was a
    dispensation for the elderly who can fast (with difficulty) to not fast and to feed a needy
    person for each day, and likewise those who are pregnant or nursing if they fear .’

    Abu Dawud said: ‘Meaning, they fear for their children. In this case they do not fast, and
    compensate by feeding the needy (and do not have to make it up).’

    Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (ra) said in the Futuhat (v. 1, p. 623):

    Section: On the Pregnant and Nursing Who Are Able to Fast Being Given a Choice
    Between Fasting and Not Fasting

    Those who are pregnant or nursing (can) feed and they do not need to make the fasts
    up, as per the wording of the Quran…. Some say (the verse 2:185) abrogated the one
    before it, and others said it only particularised it (i.e. limited its applicability), and that is
    our madhhab. Therefore the ruling of the verse (2:184: on the compensation by feeding)
    remains with regard to those women who are pregnant or nursing if they fear for their
    children, and God called that ‘doing good of one’s accord.’ He did not specify the ‘good,’
    and it therefore covers both feeding and fasting. Bukhari narrated regarding the verse:
    ‘For those who can fast only with difficulty, there is a way to compensate- feed a
    needy person (2:184)’: Ibn Abbas said: It is not abrogated, it is for the elderly. Abu
    Dawud narrated that Ibn Abbas said: It (also) remains for the pregnant and nursing.

    [This position of Ibn Arabi (to feed and not make the fast up) is also that of Abdullah ibn
    Umar, Ibn Abbas, and Sa’id ibn Jubayr, may Allah be pleased with them all.

    His position that the ‘doing good of one’s accord’ includes the feeding of the needy is also
    that of Ibn Abbas. Al-Bayhaqi narrated that Ibn Abbas said: ‘This verse is not abrogated.
    ‘If anyone does good of his own accord’ – and feeds an extra needy person – ‘ it is
    better for him’.]

    Regarding the elderly who *are not able to fast* he said in the Futuhat (v. 1 p. 617):

    Some say they need to feed and some say they do not need to but it is still
    recommended for them to do so, and I take this second opinion. I say: The feeding of the
    needy was only prescribed for those (elderly) who *are able to fast* with difficulty (as the
    Quran states). As for those who are unable, the duty (taklif) no longer applies to them.
    The Sharia does not hold that one who is like that should have to feed when he is not
    able to fulfil the commandment. ‘God does not burden any soul with more than it can
    bear’ (2:286), and He did not burden it with having to feed. If He had burdened it with
    feeding even when it is unable to fulfil what is prescribed, then that is what we would
    have followed and nothing else (but He has not done so)

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    [Ibn Arabi’s position that they do not need to feed (but it is recommended) is that of
    Imam Malik]

    As for Shaykh Ahmad ibn Idris (may Allah be pleased with him), he said that those who
    are pregnant and nursing may break the fast if they fear harm for their fetus or
    pregnancy, but they need to both feed and make it up, and that is the opinion of Imam
    Shafi’i.

    Related: Fasting While Traveling

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