Question Summary:
What should be done to expiate fasts broken intentionally in Ramadan?

Question Detail:

I am a reverted lady, i turned to islam few years ago. My iman now is very low and this ramadan i broke the fast intentionally 4 days.Simply i couldnt cope with it. Now i want to repent as i realise of my mistake an i know this is agrave major sin. Will Allah forgive me and give me tha Jannah or i will never be forgiven?
How can i make up those days and ioffer expiation (i read i have to fast during 2 months together for each day? Some people say its ok if i give charity only. Please answer me im very desperate of my big sin. 

Answer :

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
Sister in Islam, your Iman is not low. You have lived your life in Kufr and made a great sacrifice to accept Islam. That is a high level of Iman and honesty to Allah. We make dua that Allah keep you firm and steadfast on Iman and on the dictates of Iman. Aameen.
To fast and then to break the fast intentionally without a valid excuse in Shariah is a major sin. It is due to your Imani conscious that you feel guilty for breaking your fasts and enquire how to make up for that. Such a feeling of guilt is tawfeeq and a blessing from Allah. Allah will give you the strength and courage to fulfil the Kaffarah (compensation) for the broken fasts.
In principle, one will have to fast for two months consecutively (60 days) as Kaffarah for a deliberately broken fast as well as make Qadha (make up) for the missed fast.[1]
In the case of a female, if there is an interruption due to the monthly menstrual cycle, she will be excused from the obligation of continuity in fasting. However, she will have to make up for the number of fasts missed due to her menstrual cycle. [2]
The Fuqaha have taken into consideration the enormity of Kaffarah especially if they are multiple as in your case, where you broke four fasts which result in two hundred and forty days of Kaffarah and four days of Qadha.
You have to offer only 60 days Kaffarah and four days Qadha which will include the Kaffarah of the remaining 3 broken fasts as well.[3] To simplify, the four Kaffarahs of two hundred and forty days will be incorporated in one set of Kaffarah of sixty days four days of Qadha. All in all you have to keep sixty four days’ fasts; sixty consecutive fasts and four days Qadha.
Also make lots of Istighfaar to Allah and resolve never to repeat this sin in future. The Kaffarah fasts may be kept in the winter days when the days are relatively short.
 
And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best
Nabeel Valli
Student, Darul Iftaa
Zambia
Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.