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$10 – Fidya if you missed 1 day of fasting for a valid reason.
$50 – Fidya if you missed 5 days of fasting for a valid reason.
$300 – Fidya if you missed 30 days of fasting for a valid reason.
$600 – Kaffarah to compensate for 1 deliberately broken fast.
Not all missed fasts carry the same ruling. If you are genuinely unable to fast due to valid and ongoing reasons such as chronic illness or old age, and you cannot make up the fast later, you are required to pay Fidya. If a fast is intentionally broken without a valid excuse, Kaffarah becomes obligatory.
Fidya requires feeding one person two meals for each fast missed, while Kaffarah requires feeding 60 people for every intentionally broken fast.
Through Human Appeal Canada, your donation provides essential meals to families facing poverty and food insecurity. What fulfils your religious obligation becomes immediate nourishment and dignity for someone in need.
Fulfil your Fidya or Kaffarah with clarity and confidence.
Why Your Fidya and Kaffarah Are Needed Now
Across communities affected by poverty, conflict and displacement, food insecurity continues to rise. Parents struggle to provide daily meals. Children go to sleep hungry.
Your Fidya or Kaffarah payment ensures that someone in need receives nourishment when they need it most. What fulfils your obligation becomes relief for another family.
The Impact of Your Fidya and Kaffarah
Your contribution provides nutritious meals to vulnerable individuals and families during Ramadan and beyond.
Fidya provides one person with two meals for each fast missed due to valid reasons.
Kaffarah provides meals to 60 people for each intentionally broken fast.
Through Human Appeal’s food distribution programs, your payment is used to support those facing hunger in crisis-affected regions and impoverished communities.
Fidya is a donation that is used to make up for any missed obligatory days of fasting for a valid reason such as; extreme illness, traveling, elderly, pregnant, breastfeeding, traveling, etc.
Kaffarah must be done to make up for deliberately missing any obligatory days of fasting without a valid reason.
Yes. As one of the five pillars of Islam, fasting is compulsory for all capable Muslims above the age of puberty. That makes it obligatory for a Muslim to compensate for any missed days fasting even if they have a valid reason, and especially if they do not have one.
Fasting is for a fixed number of days, and if one of you be sick, or if one of you be on a journey, you will fast the same number of other days later on. For those who are capable of fasting (but still do not fast) there is a redemption: feeding a needy man for each day missed. Whoever voluntarily does more good than is required, will find it better for him; and that you should fast is better for you, if you only know. (Qur’an 2:184)
With Human Appeal, you can easily pay Fidya at just $10 per missed day, or Kaffarah at $600 per missed day. While there is no set price for paying Fidya or Kaffarah, the average amount is the cost of a meal for a vulnerable person.
Fidya can be paid at any time of the year.
You can pay Fidya by feeding a vulnerable person per each day missed. This can be done by donating the cost for a meal or by preparing the meal yourself.
Kaffarah can be performed by fasting a specific number of days in a row. To calculate the number of days required to fast, multiply the number of missed days by 60. For example, if you deliberately missed 1 day of fasting, you would have to fast for 60 consecutive days (if you missed 2 days, you would fast 120 consecutive days, etc.).
Alternatively, you could feed 60 vulnerable people, or free an enslaved Muslim, for each day of fasting missed.
Your Fidya or Kaffarah payments will go to those who are eligible to receive it, with Fidya going to eligible families in Palestine, Pakistan, Kashmir, Syria, and Yemen, and Kaffarah payments going to support our Feed the Fasting campaign this Ramadan.
It is important to uphold our Islamic obligations. Fasting is an obligatory act and one of the 5 pillars of Islam. If we are unable to fast, it is important to compensate for this by paying Fidya.
Any capable individual who is accountable for their deeds is required to pay if they have missed or broken their fast.
If you miss a fast without a valid reason, you must pay Kaffarah.
We have been carrying out your Fidya and Kaffarah compensations for 30 years. When it comes to matters as important as compensation for missed fasts, experience is absolutely key. We have a number of longstanding, but regularly updated and assessed, systems in place to make sure that your Fidya or Kaffarah is carried out in a timely and efficient manner, while providing nutritious food to those who need it most - especially in this time of fragile need.
Fasting is for a fixed number of days, and if one of you be sick, or if one of you be on a journey, you will fast the same number of other days later on. For those who are capable of fasting (but still do not fast) there is a redemption: feeding a needy man for each day missed. Whoever voluntarily does more good than is required, will find it better for him; and that you should fast is better for you, if you only know.
Source - Qur’an 2:184
Human Appeal is committed to providing aid in the country or program that you select. In the event we complete the program, exceed the required funds, or are denied access to a particular country for reasons beyond our control, Human Appeal reserves the right to reallocate your donation to another program where it is needed most.
