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One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

I would like to know if a fast is broken if a woman is releasing discharge. 

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Answer:

Menses does woman discharge break fast

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 222:

222 They ask thee concerning women's courses. Say: ‘They are a hurt and a pollution; so keep away from women in their courses and do not approach them until they are clean. But when they have purified themselves ye may approach them in any manner time or place ordained for you by Allah. For Allah loves those who turn to Him constantly and He loves those who keep themselves pure and clean.’

If by ‘releasing discharge’ you mean the discharge relating to menstrual cycle of the women, then indeed this discharge breaks the fast of the believing woman. As soon as the woman experiences her menstrual discharge, she should consider her fast broken and she is required to make up her missed fasts at any time after Ramadan.

Fiqh-us-Sunnah Fiqh 3.120

The scholars and jurists of Islam are of the opinion that it is obligatory for menstruating women and women with post-childbirth bleeding to break the fast and to make up the missed days later on. Al-Bukhari and Muslim recorded that 'Aishah said: "When we would have our menses during the lifetime of the Prophet (saws), we were ordered to make up the days of fasting that we had missed (due to menstruation) but were not ordered to make up the prayers that we had missed.”

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Burhan