Fasting Six Days Of Shawwal

[laian]

Assalamu alaikum,


I just have a question about fasting the 6 days of shawwal....


If you intend to fast the 6 days of shawwal, but also have days to make up from Ramadan (for illness, or menses or whatever) which should you do first? By instinct I would say that because the days to make up for Ramadan are fard they should come first. However, those days can be made up at any time of the year (before the next Ramadan), and the 6 days only in shawwal... so if one is not able to make up the days and do the 6 days all in shawwal, will it still count to do the 6 days and then later make up the fard days?


Also, if you are in the habit of fasting mondays and thursdays, and the 14th, 15th, and 16th days, do those days in shawwal count as part of the 6 days, or are they separate because the intention is different? or can the intention be to combine them?


Hope I'm making sense


wasalam