What is Kaffarah

You will need to pay Kaffarah, or Kaffara, for breaking fasts or making fasts invalid, when there is no good reason, and you cannot fast at a later time for 60 continuous days.

Here are a few examples of situations when you need to pay Kaffarah: 

• Intentionally eating food or drinking water
• Masturbation or sexual intercourse during fasting
• Intentionally making yourself throw up
• Planning or intending to deliberately miss fasts
• Deliberately hurting yourself or any other person or animal

For your broken fast, you will need to pay Kaffarah, as well as making up for that missed fast at a later date. If any of the above examples apply to you, and you cannot fast at a later time for 60 days in a row, you will need to pay Kaffarah.