Calculate missed-fast compensation (Fidya) and broken-fast expiation (Kaffarah). Choose your madhab, region, and staple food basis — get exact monetary amounts in your local currency.
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Two distinct obligations arise around Ramadan fasting — Fidya for fasts that cannot be made up, and Kaffarah for fasts deliberately broken. Mixing them up is one of the most common errors Muslims make. This guide clarifies both.
Fidya is a compensation payment for someone who cannot make up missed Ramadan fasts — typically because of chronic illness, old age, or a condition from which recovery is not expected. The Quran establishes this in Surah Al-Baqarah (2:184): "And as for those who can fast with difficulty, they have to feed a poor person for every day." The payment is calculated per missed fast, based on the cost of feeding one poor person one meal.
Crucially, Fidya does not apply to healthy people who simply missed fasts due to travel, work, or temporary illness. Those individuals must make up the fasts (qada) before the next Ramadan. Fidya is only for those for whom fasting is permanently impossible.
Kaffarah is a heavy expiation for someone who deliberately broke a Ramadan fast without a valid Sharia reason — through eating, drinking, or marital relations during fasting hours. The expiation is severe by design: it is meant to deter casual treatment of Ramadan.
There are three options, in order: (1) free a slave — not applicable in modern times; (2) fast 60 consecutive days, with no break except for a valid Sharia reason (if broken, the count resets to zero); or (3) feed 60 poor people. This calculator computes the monetary value of the third option.
The four Sunni schools differ on the precise weight of staple food owed per missed fast:
The Hanafi amount is double because the school holds that the compensation should equal the food a person would have eaten during the day, not just one meal.
Scholars permit paying the monetary equivalent of the staple food rather than distributing actual grain. The current market price of wheat, rice, or dates in your region is multiplied by the required weight. Our calculator pre-loads 2025 average prices for major currencies but lets you override with local rates for accuracy.
For a detailed walkthrough of every madhab and scenario, read our Fidya Calculation Guide or compare with Fidya vs Kaffarah: Understanding the Difference.