Title: Fasting for a diabetic patient.

Question: If I am a diabetic patient is it necessary to have fast in the month of Ramadan continuously. Doctor advice is that the sugar patient should eat something at every three hours interval or drink water quite frequently. Please reply if a sugar patient can give up the fasting and perform only other prayers.

Answer ID: 60708Posted on: Sep 1, 2020

Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

(Fatwa: 955/966/H=10/1436) If it is must to eat or drink in each gap of three hours and at present there is no way of keeping fast as well as there is no hope of restoring strength for fast then it is lawful not to keep the fasts. However, it shall be wajib to pay fidyah equal to one Sadaqah al-Fitr in return of each fast. Sadaqah al-Fitr is one kilo 633 gram wheat or three kilo 266 gram barley which should be paid to poor and needy ones. Right now if you have no strength of keeping fast, but you may keep it during the days of winter, then in such a case it is wajib for you to make their qaza during the winter days and in this case fidyah shall not be enough. You should solve your case as per the above details.