2) Zakaat on cash and jewellery to the value of R20,000 has to be paid. But if after deducting your debts, the balance is less than R3,000. (which is the nisaab of zakaat), you don't need to pay zakaat.

1. If you have a fixed cycle for your monthly flow, such as 7 days, or 8 days, and now you have passed that number of days and the spotting continues, then you must regard the previous fixed cycle as your menses. The rest of the days are istihaadah, meaning that you must still fast and make salaah but for salaah you need to make wudhu for every new salaah time.

2. If there is no fixed cycle then consider your haidh as 10 full days (if the spotting continued as you say) The rest of the days of spotting are istihaada which have the same rule as above, i.e you must fast and offer salaah.

3. If you had not fasted during the days of istihaadah then remember that you have to pay back these fasts after Ramadaan.

4. Also remember that if you have a 15-day clean, dry period wherein there is no flow or spotting, then the next time after that any blood flow or spotting that occurs will be a new haidh or menstruation.

Mufti Siraj Desai

A. If a person starts fasting then breaks the fast without a valid reason, he will have to keep Kaffaarah of sixty consecutive fasts as well as one Qadhaa, totalling sixty-one days. It is necessary that the sixty days of Kaffaarah be kept consecutively. If a person misses one day of fasting at any stage during the sixty days, he will have to begin that Kaffaarah all over again, even if he had fasted 59 of the 60 days. If it is a lady, her Haidh (periods) in-between will not be considered as missing a few days. She will have to carry on with the Kaffaarah as soon as her Haidh is over.

If a person broke a few fasts, he will keep one Kaffaarah and Qadhaa of the days missed. (Ahsanul Fataawa V4 P434)      

If one does not observe the fasts of Ramadhaan, there is no Kaffaarah, only Qadhaa for each fast missed. However, the sin is equally major. The Hadeeth Shareef states that one who misses one fast of Ramadhaan without illness or a valid excuse, will not be able to make up for the reward of that day even if he has to fast his entire lifetime. (Fazaa-ile A’maal)

Fasting is Fardh and the person who neglects a Fardh is neglecting a direct command of Allah Ta'aala and one cannot imagine the punishment for such violation of the command of Allah.

May Allah grant all Muslims the guidance to fulfil their duty towards Him, Aameen.

Moulana Yusuf Laher

Checked and approved by: Mufti Siraj Desai

Q: My father is retired and he took his pension fund and all his retirement money from goverment. Does he have to pay Zakat on this money?

Moulana Yusuf Laher

Q: If one takes a vitamin B injection during the day during the month of ramadaan is ones fast broken?

Mufti Siraj Desai

A: Zakaat has to be paid on the gold content of the coin, not on its inflated value. It is clear that the substantial value of this coin is not due to any increase in the gold price; instead it is the name the coin bears that enhances its value, as well as market demand. That is not a criterion for zakaat.

 

And Allah Ta'ala knows best.

A: The only way to get Allah's mercy if one had broken a fast intentionally is to compensate for that act by fasting 60 days one after the other. This is called kaffara. A person who breaks a fast intentionally has to keep this kaffara to make up for the wrong-doing. If one does not do this, he will not earn Allah's Pleasure.