FAI Lecturer; Here's How to Pay Years of Fasting Debt

• 01 Apr
• 2022

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FAI Lecturer; Here's How to Pay Years of Fasting Debt

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The month of Ramadan has arrived. The month in which Allah obliges Muslims to fast. But sometimes fasting is not fulfilled for various reasons. Some of these fasting debts have not been paid for years.

Thoat Stiawan, a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Religion (FAI), explained that Al-Baqarah verses 183 and 184 have beautiful consonance (munasabah). When Allah obliges fasting, based on Surah Al-Baqarah: 183, Allah then explains about some people who leave fasting for certain reasons.

So whoever among you is sick or on a journey (then does not fast), then (must make up) the number of days (which he did not fast) on other days. And for people who are hard to do it, it is obligatory to pay fidyah, which is to feed a poor person. (Surah Al-Baqarah: 184).

In this verse, Allah explains that there are 3 people who have the potential to have a fast debt, namely people who are sick (marid), people who are traveling (travelers), and people who are unable or difficult to fast.

"For reasons of illness and traveling, and for these reasons it is permissible for a person to break the fast, but with the condition of paying the debt for fasting outside the month of Ramadan, as meant in Surah Al-Baqarah: 183. So, how to pay for it by fasting outside of Ramadan. ,” said Thoat Friday (1/4/22)

He explained that this group also included women who were menstruating, as hadith of Aisyah narrated by Muslim No.789. Imam al-Nawawi in commenting on this Muslim hadith, commented that in relation to this group there are 3 things that scholars agree on, namely for menstruating people it is not obligatory to pray and fast, it is not obligatory to pray qada', and it is obligatory to qada fasting (al-Minhaj Syarh Muslim bin al-Hajjaj, Juz. 02 p.46).

"Meanwhile, for people who are not strong or heavy with fasting, then it is obligatory to pay fidyah only, there is no need to replace fasting (qada). The scholars explain that this weak person is an old person (al-syaikh al-kabir), as in the Hadith of Ibn Abbas in al-Mustadrak Al-hakim No. 1607," he added again.

Included in this group, as the scholars of the Tarjih Council added, are pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. This is in line with the hadith of Ibn Abbas in the history of al-Bazar No.4996. So, only paying fidyah in the form of 1 mud of staple food (to the amount of 0.6 kg) for each day of fasting that is missed.

"However, as Contemporary Jurisprudence Expert Prof. Ahmad Zahro and Tarjih Ulama argue, the choice of how to pay is still there, between being able to make up for fasts (if there is an opportunity), or may also be sufficient for the fidyah that has been paid.

“What if this fasting debt goes on for years? The tarjih scholars see the generality of the verse that there is no deadline for when to make up for fasting (qadla). Of course, it would be much better to pay for the fast before the next Ramadan arrives," he concluded.