Can a Muslim pay to avoid Ramadan?

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Answer

Yes, possible on conditions.

Fasting is one of Islam five pillar. Every year in the month of Ramadan, all Muslims fast from dawn until sunset. During fasting, it is not allowed to eat, drink, or making sexual contacts.

Although fasting is beneficial to health, it is regarded principally as a method of spiritual self-purification. By cutting oneself off from worldly comforts, even for a short time, a fasting person gains true sympathy with those who go hungry, as well as growth in his or her spiritual life. Forbidding yourself during from what is allowed to you after fast breaking gives you motivation to forbid yourself from all what is prohibited by religion, like drinking alcohols, taking drugs, gambling, prostitution, cheating, etc..

However, if one is on travel or ill during Ramadan then he allowed to break fasting during these days and compensate the fasting for these days after Ramadan when the reason for breaking fasting is no longer valid.

However, it is allowed for:

• elderly people whose health never allows them to fast or
  
• women having a newly born child that she feeds him during Ramadan and finds difficulty to fast
  
• people suffering from life illness that with which they can't fast.
  

not to fast and pay money to the poor in amount equivalent to the cost of hull day meals multiplied by the number of days that were not fasted in Ramadan.