Fasting for a diabetic patient in Ramadan by the decision of doctors
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, regarding the illness of diabetes, is it permissible for a person to break his fast on the days of Ramadan if the doctor tells him to, or should he fast with the people seeking reward?
Answer:
If a doctor, or rather if three doctors, three Muslim doctors, determine that fasting will harm him, then he breaks his fast and makes up the days from other days. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, regarding the illness of diabetes, is it permissible for a person to break his fast on the days of Ramadan if the doctor tells him to, or should he fast with the people seeking reward?
Answer:
If a doctor, or rather if three doctors, three Muslim doctors, determine that fasting will harm him, then he breaks his fast and makes up the days from other days. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (183) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1440-06-02] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (29:49)
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