Do I have to fast 10 whole years in expiation? (no)

From your previous answers, I understand that intentionally breaking your fast through eating or sexual relations requires a person to make up that fast plus 60 days fasting for each broken day of fasting (kaffara). My question is, that I have worked out (realistically) that from the last 7 years I owe approximately 55 days...now that means I need to fast for 10 years.

Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,

Note that two things are required:

a) it is obligatory to make up all missed fasts in the past;

b) one expiatory fast (60 consecutive days, as described in Lesson Two of The Essentials of Fasting at www.sunnipath.com) is necessary for all major past errors.

Wassalam,

Faraz Rabbani
faraz@sunnipath.com
hanafi@sunnipath.com 

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