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Almost everyone who has fasted for years carries a quiet number in the back of their mind: the fasts they still owe. A week lost to flu at nineteen. A pregnancy, a journey, a difficult year. The number is rarely as large as the guilt around it — but until it is written down, it feels enormous and vague, and vague debts are the easiest ones to postpone forever.
This tracker turns the vague number into a written one. Log each block of missed fasts by year and reason, watch the total settle into something concrete, then choose an honest weekly pace — one fast a week, two, three — and see the date on which, God willing, the debt is finished. Mark fasts off as you complete them and the plan adjusts itself.
Scholars across the schools agree on the basic shape of the obligation: fasts missed in Ramadan for a valid reason are made up, day for day, afterwards — this is the qaza. What overwhelms people is rarely the ruling; it is the arithmetic of memory. Reconstructing the past feels like guesswork, so they guess nothing and do nothing.
The tracker only asks for what you can reasonably know: the year, roughly how many days, and the broad reason. If you genuinely cannot recall an exact count, make your best careful estimate — and for the ruling on estimates, doubtful years and old cases, confirm with a local scholar for your situation, because personal circumstances are exactly where general guidance ends.
The reason field is not decoration. Illness and travel are the classic temporary excuses: the fast is postponed, and qaza is owed when the person is able. Pregnancy and breastfeeding involve additional discussion in the schools — some scholars require qaza, some add feeding the poor in certain cases, and the details differ between madhabs. Menstruation is unambiguous: those fasts are made up, while the prayers of those days are not.
Some situations point away from qaza entirely and toward fidya — a permanent inability to fast, such as chronic illness or advanced age. If that may be you, do not log a growing debt here and feel worse: read the fidya guidance, use the fidya calculator, and confirm your position with a scholar. This tracker is for fasts that can, in principle, be fasted later.
The best catch-up plan is boring. One fast every Monday, held for a year, quietly clears fifty fasts. Two a week — Mondays and Thursdays carry their own reward in the Sunnah — clears a hundred. Winter months, with their short days, are the seasoned qaza-faster's secret; many people deliberately save the bulk of their debt for the weeks around the shortest day.
Set the weekly rate in the planner to something you would still manage in a bad week, not your best week. The projected finish date assumes you start on the date you choose and keep the pace outside Ramadan itself; if life interrupts, mark what you truly completed and let the projection move. An honest moving date beats an abandoned perfect plan.
Questions people often ask a scholar at this point: must qaza fasts be completed before the next Ramadan arrives? The majority encourage completing them within the year, and the schools discuss what happens if a person delays without excuse — some require fidya alongside the eventual qaza. Must the days be consecutive? For ordinary qaza, no; they may be spread out. Each qaza day still needs its own intention before Fajr, like any obligatory fast.
None of this is a reason to delay starting. The tradition's tone on debts to God is hopeful, and the practical step — one written plan, one first Monday — is the same whatever the details of your case.
No. It is an arithmetic and planning tool. It totals the fasts you tell it about and projects a finish date. Whether a particular block of missed days is owed as qaza, covered by fidya, or excused is a ruling for your situation — please confirm with a local scholar, especially for pregnancy, long-term illness and very old cases.
Enter your best careful estimate, leaning to the side of caution if you are genuinely torn between two numbers. Many scholars advise acting on the estimate you can stand behind after honest recollection. Keep a note of how you estimated, in case you discuss it with a scholar later.
Generally yes, outside Ramadan, the days of Eid and the days of tashreeq. Mondays and Thursdays are popular because fasting them is itself a Sunnah. Fasting only Fridays, or only Saturdays, is discussed differently in the schools — another detail worth a quick question to a scholar if it is your intended pattern.
Pause the plan rather than forcing it, and take medical and scholarly advice together. If the inability is judged permanent, fidya — feeding a poor person for each day — is the established alternative, and ZakatSuite has a dedicated fidya calculator to work out amounts.
The projection works forward from your chosen start date at your chosen weekly rate. If your plan spans February–March 2027, remember that Ramadan's own fasts take the place of qaza in those weeks, so treat the projected date as approximate and slightly optimistic in that case.