When you cannot fast, you can still feed.
Age and lasting illness can put fasting out of reach. Fidya is the way Islam keeps you in Ramadan even then: for every day you cannot keep, a person who is hungry is fed in your place.
Give your Fidya
- 1 Donation details
- 2 Your information
- 3 Payment
Why Give Fidya
A concession, not a failing
Fidya means a ransom or a substitute. In Ramadan it is the food given on behalf of someone who cannot fast and cannot make the days up later.
It is meant for a settled situation rather than a passing one: old age, or a lasting illness with no real expectation of recovery. The Quran provides this alternative directly, and there is no blame in taking it.
Where the reason is temporary the fast is normally made up later as qada, and scholars differ on pregnancy and breastfeeding. Fidya is also not Kaffarah, which follows deliberately breaking a fast. If you are unsure which applies, please ask a scholar you trust.
Who Can Benefit
One day missed, one person fed
The obligation is counted in days and paid in meals. For each day of fasting that is beyond you, food is provided for one person who needs it.
HF Trust UK gives Fidya as food: rice, lentils, cooking oil and the rest of a real meal, bought locally and distributed by teams who know which families are genuinely short.
Because it is tied to days it arrives as a run of meals rather than one gesture, which suits the households it reaches: an elderly person living alone, a family whose earner is out of work, a home still recovering after flooding.
Why Choose Us
Given as food, as prescribed
Fidya is specific: it is food, for people who are eligible to receive it. So it should not be handed over as an unspecified donation and left to chance.
When you choose Fidya on the form above it is recorded as Fidya and used for food. HF Trust UK is a charity registered in England and Wales, working in Bangladesh through established local teams who identify the households, buy the staples and deliver them directly.
Those same teams carry the Trust's wider work in orphan care, food, clean water, medical support and emergency relief. If you are unsure whether your situation calls for Fidya, please ask us or a scholar you trust before settling an amount.
Quran & Hadith
Fidya in the sources
Quran
"Fast a prescribed number of days. But whoever of you is ill or on a journey, then let them fast an equal number of days after Ramadan. For those who can only fast with extreme difficulty, compensation can be made by feeding a needy person for every day not fasted. But whoever volunteers to give more, it is better for them."
Hadith
The Prophet (peace be upon him) was asked which aspect of Islam was best, and answered that it was to feed people and to give the greeting of peace to those you know and those you do not.
Fulfil Your Fidya
Keep your Ramadan, one meal at a time
Not being able to fast is not a failure, and Fidya is not a fine. It is the way the month still counts for you: for every day you cannot keep, a person in Bangladesh who would have gone without sits down to a proper meal. Choose your amount above and we will see that it is given as food.