Tafheem ul Quran
Surah 2 Al-Baqarah, Ayat 184-184
اَيَّامًا مَّعۡدُوۡدٰتٍؕ فَمَنۡ كَانَ مِنۡكُمۡ مَّرِيۡضًا اَوۡ عَلٰى سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِّنۡ اَيَّامٍ اُخَرَؕ وَعَلَى الَّذِيۡنَ يُطِيۡقُوۡنَهٗ فِدۡيَةٌ طَعَامُ مِسۡكِيۡنٍؕ فَمَنۡ تَطَوَّعَ خَيۡرًا فَهُوَ خَيۡرٌ لَّهٗ ؕ وَاَنۡ تَصُوۡمُوۡا خَيۡرٌ لَّـکُمۡ اِنۡ كُنۡتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُوۡنَ
﴿2:184﴾
(2:184) Fasting is for a fixed number of days, and if one of you be sick,
or if one of you be on a journey, you will fast the same number of other days
later on. For those who are capable of fasting (but still do not fast) there
is a redemption: feeding a needy man for each day missed. Whoever voluntarily
does more good than is required, will find it better for him;184
and that you should fast is better for you, if you only know.185
Notes
184. This act of extra merit could either be feeding more than the one person
required or both fasting and feeding the poor.
185. Here ends the early injunction with regard to fasting which was revealed
in 2 A.H. prior to the Battle of Badr. The verses that follow were revealed
about one year later and are linked with the preceding verses since they deal
with the same subject.