Making Up the Fasts Missed over a Lifetime

Question

A person has fard fasts remaining upon him: after reaching puberty he did not keep many fasts consecutively and many fasts non-consecutively. How should he make up the fasts and the prayers?

Answer

Both fasting and prayer become fard upon reaching puberty. So he should count from the time he reached puberty and make up six prayers for every day, that is, the five fard prayers and, sixth, the witr. And from that same time he should keep the fasts of every Ramadan, specifying the Ramadan in the fast, for example: “I am keeping the fasts of the first Ramadan that became…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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