Fasting for people with diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease or ulcers

A question about fasting for people with diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease or ulcers, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that someone wholly unable to fast breaks the fast and pays the fidya without making up the days, someone able on some days fasts those and makes up the rest, and someone burdened in summer but able in winter breaks the fast and makes it up later. ¹

The questioner asked about the ruling on fasting for people with diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease or ulcers. ¹

The Department answered that someone wholly unable to fast does not fast and owes the fidya, feeding a poor person, but no making up, citing the verse on the fidya in Surat al-Baqara 2:184. ¹ It said that someone able to fast on some days of the month but not others fasts what he can and makes up the missed days after Ramadan whenever he is able, with no fidya. ¹ It added that a sick person for whom fasting is a hardship in the long, hot days of summer but who can make up the days in the short days of winter breaks the fast and makes it up when able, with no fidya. ¹

Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4095, dated 25 January 2026. ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.