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Is it permissible to give the feeding of the needy for the remaining days of make-up fasting all at once, knowing that it is obligatory to feed one needy person for each day?

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If a wife breaks her fast due to menstruation, illness, or travel, she is only required to make up the missed days (qada'). If she delays making up these days until the next Ramadan, she must make them up and feed one poor person for each day. If she breaks her fast due to pregnancy or breastfeeding, fearing for the fetus, she must make up the missed days and offer expiation (kaffara), which is feeding one poor person for each day (approximately 750 grams of food). It is not permissible to offer feeding as a substitute for making up the fasts if one is able to fast; whoever feeds but does not make up the fasts does not discharge her obligation, and she must make up the days along with the obligatory feeding. Delaying the feeding does not waive it.

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