In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. A woman asks.

A woman got her period when she was twelve years old, and she did not fast.

Because she thought she was not required to do so until she turned fifteen, and her father would get angry with her about it, saying: Do not fast until you reach fifteen.

Now she has heard in fatwas that reaching puberty and being held accountable starts from the time of menstruation, whenever it happens, so what should she do now?

If the girl who reached

menstruation at the age of twelve.

But she did not fast until she turned fifteen.

Based on her belief that fasting is only required of her once she reaches fifteen.

And based on the fact that her father used to hit her.

If she fasted, then we say if she

At that time, she believed that fasting was obligatory for her.

Then she must make up the missed fasts.

Because her father beat her for not fasting.

That does not mean it is no longer required of her. But if she does not know.

Anyone who grows up in the desert, far from cities and far from scholars, is he required to make up the fast?

The guideline in these matters, which is useful in this and other issues, is that someone who is ignorant in a way that is excusable.

The religious obligations are not required of him.

He is exempt from the religious obligations, as Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyya, may Allah have mercy on him, said.

The religious laws are not binding before knowledge.

He supported this with narrations from the Prophet ﷺ.

And his statement is correct, that the religious laws do not cease.