We are a medical team that does a large number of surgeries all-year. As a result, we can`t delay the already scheduled surgeries, which are more than a thousand, till after Ramadan under the excuse that patients are observing fast. In most scheduled cases, patients are forced to break their fast for a day or two until they return to normal. However, there is a new surgical procedure that we perform on patients suffering from "excessive obesity" where they are forced to break their fast and follow a diet for a minimum of three weeks. Is it permissible to perform this procedure in Ramadan?

Is it permissible to advance the payment of the Fidyah (compensation for not fasting)due on an old person who is unable to fast, or should it be paid day by day?

Is it permissible for the pregnant and the breastfeeding women to break their fast because of hardship, and what is incumbent on them in this case ?

I can`t fast because of being inflicted with an incurable disease, I haven`t observed fasting since 1993, what is the expiation due on me?

Is the guardian obliged to pay the fasting ransom on behalf of the mentally handicapped who has passed puberty?

What`s the ruling on the fasting of manual laborers?

What should a sick person, who is incapable of fasting, and who didn`t make up for missed fasting days, do?