The Requirement of Islam for the Physician in the Ruling to Break the Fast
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If a physician forbids a patient from fasting and orders him to break his fast during the day in Ramadan, is it required that this physician be a Muslim, or is only expertise required?
Answer:
It is required that he be a Muslim, because the testimony of a disbeliever is not accepted in matters of worship. Only the testimony of a Muslim physician is accepted in matters of worship. Yes, unless a majority of specialized physicians gather and decide that fasting harms him, in which case he breaks his fast. Yes, but a single physician who is not a Muslim? No.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: If a physician forbids a patient from fasting and orders him to break his fast during the day in Ramadan, is it required that this physician be a Muslim, or is only expertise required?
Answer:
It is required that he be a Muslim, because the testimony of a disbeliever is not accepted in matters of worship. Only the testimony of a Muslim physician is accepted in matters of worship. Yes, unless a majority of specialized physicians gather and decide that fasting harms him, in which case he breaks his fast. Yes, but a single physician who is not a Muslim? No.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 23-02-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (52:52)
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