Fidya Calculator for Missed Fasts

A fidya calculator for missed fasts per day cost — work out what you owe for fasts you cannot make up. Use the free Fidya Calculator for Missed Fasts below — enter your values and get instant results, right in your browser. Fidya = Missed fasts × Meals per day × Cost per meal. Classically this equals about half a sa' (≈1–1.25 kg) of wheat per day; the cash equivalent uses local food prices.

How to use the Fidya Calculator for Missed Fasts

When someone cannot fast and cannot make the fasts up later — due to chronic illness or old age — fidya is paid instead: feeding a poor person for each missed day. This fidya calculator for missed fasts per day cost multiplies your number of missed fasts by the meals per day and your local meal cost, giving both the total rupees due and the number of meals to arrange.

  1. Enter the number of fasts you missed and cannot make up in the Missed fasts field.
  2. Set meals per poor person per day — 2 is the standard (some scholars say 1 full day's food).
  3. Enter what one decent meal costs in your city in the Cost of one meal field.
  4. Click Calculate to see the total fidya in rupees and the total number of meals to arrange.

Formula

Fidya = Missed fasts × Meals per day × Cost per meal. Classically this equals about half a sa' (≈1–1.25 kg) of wheat per day; the cash equivalent uses local food prices.

Worked example

An elderly person who missed all 30 fasts of Ramadan, at 2 meals a day and Rs 300 per meal, owes 30 × 2 × 300 = Rs 18,000 in fidya — equivalent to arranging 60 meals for the poor. It can be paid to one person over days or many people at once.

Frequently asked questions

Fidya is for those with no hope of making up the fasts: the very old and the chronically ill. A temporarily sick person or traveler must make up (qada) the fasts later instead.

Yes — you may feed one needy person for 30 days or 30 people for one day. What matters is that the total meals equal the missed fasts times the daily amount.

Fidya, like zakat, is generally directed to poor Muslims in the Hanafi view. For feeding the poor in general charity (sadaqah), the scope is wider.

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