Is it a sin to break ones fast due to illness?

Dr. Zakir: If a person is dying as you said, dying of hunger or dying of thirst…

Yusuf Chambers: Yes…

Dr. Zakir: …while fasting if he feels hungry and thirsty and if he feels that if he does not take something, does not take some food or does not take some water, it will damage some of his organs of the body, if he feels his life is threatened or may cause a major damage to some of his organs then if he breaks the fast to save his life, it is accepted, Allah will forgive him but he will have to make up for his fast after the month of Ramadhaan is over. But if someone finds it hard, difficult to fast because if he’s doing a laborious work or he is finding difficulties, he is feeling thirsty in this case breaking the fast is a sin. But if he is really dying of hunger and then if he breaks, Allah will forgive him but he’ll have to make up for that fast later on.