وَالشَّيْخُ الْفَانِي الَّذِي لَا يَقْدِرُ عَلَى الصِّيَامِ: يُفْطِرُ، وَيُطْعِمُ لِكُلِّ يَوْمٍ مِسْكِينًا، كَمَا يُطْعِمُ فِي الْكَفَّارَاتِ.
Translation: A very elderly person who cannot fast may omit fasting and must feed a poor person for every day, as feeding is done for expiations.
“Al-shaykh al-fānī” refers to a very elderly person who is unable to fast, where the inability is lasting rather than temporary. The limiting phrase is “lā yaqdiru ʿalā al-ṣiyām”—cannot perform the fast.
For such a person, Quduri prescribes feeding one poor person per day on the same measure used in expiatory feeding. This is a different rule from postponement followed by make-up during pregnancy or nursing.