EXPIATION (KAFFARAH)
Q. What is the Kaffara (expiation) for the
deliberate breaking of fast?
The actual expiation is freeing a slave.
But as slaves are no longer found in this part of world, expiation could take
two forms: either to fast continuously for two months or if one does not have
strength enough to stand two months fasting, he should feed sixty poor and
hungry persons to their fill two times a day or in lieu give compensation to
sixty persons at the rate of one seer and three quarters at the rate of one
seer and three quarters of wheat or price thereof or some other food grains as
rice, miller etc. (seer here means a seer equal in weight to eighty English one
rupee coins).
Q. Is it permissible to give the entire
quantity of food grain (2 maunds and 25 seers) meant for sixty destitute to a
single needy person?
Yes, it is allowed provided one seer and
three quarters of wheat is given to a single individual each day for sixty days
or he is fed twice a day for as many days. But if more than the measure of food
grain or the price prescribed for one day is given to a person in one lump, it
shall still be counted as expiation for one day and no more.
Q. How is it if less than one seer and three
quarters of wheat is given to a needy person?
It is permissible neither to give more
nor less than the measure prescribed for one day to a person in a single day.
Q. What is the injunction about a person who
breaks several fasts of Ramadhan in the middle?
Only one expiation will be due from him.
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