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Questions and Answers

Are women permitted to fast during their cycle or during post-natal bleeding?

Women are not permitted to fast on the days of their cycle nor post-natal bleeding. Those fasts must be made upon later date, after Ramadan. (Ahsan al-Fatawa 4/438)

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Prepared by Darul Ifta, Shariah Board, New York