Please advice from what age fasting becomes compulsory for children.
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Age fast child
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Like all the obligatory acts of worship, fasting becomes
obligatory upon every muslim who has reached the age of puberty, which is most
cases should be between 10-12 years of age.
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Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
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