Why does a disabled person have to pay a ransom inspite of being exempted from fasting?
Dr Zakir Naik: Allah says in the Quran in Surah Baqara ch. 2 verse 184 that
"If it is difficult for a person to fast he can either fast or pay a ransom, that is feeding of an indigent person or a poor person"
The reason is that if a person is disabled or if he's sick permanently and there are no signs that he will become healthy where he can observe a number of fasts. So the question on him compensating, now the question for him to keep the fast later on doesn't arise at all. So that's the reason for him there is ransom that he has to pay something that is equivalent to feeding an indigent person or feed indigent person for every fast that he has missed.
