Fasting: Missed 120 Fasts — Is 60 Days of Kaffārah Required for Each One?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Fasting: Missed 120 Fasts — Is 60 Days of Kaffārah Required for Each One?

English:

Question #810:

A person did not fast for 120 days. What must he do? Does he have to fast for 60 days for every missed fast, and does he have to pay kaffārah?

Answer #810:

He has to perform qaḍā’ for the Ramadan fasts he missed. If he broke the fast intentionally and not for some shar‘ī reason, then he has, in addition to performing their qaḍā’ , to pay the kaffārah, which is fasting for sixty days or feeding 60 needy persons, or giving one mudd (750 grams) of food to each of the sixty.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Fasting