The Ruling on Intramuscular Injections for a Fasting Person
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is the ruling on a fasting person using an intramuscular injection to reduce his high fever?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that. Intramuscular injections are permissible because they are not nourishing and because they do not mix with the blood; rather, they are under the skin, so there is nothing wrong with them. As for nourishing injections, these break the fast by consensus. As for intravenous injections that are not nourishing, there is scholarly disagreement on them, and the stronger position is that they also break the fast, because they travel with the blood and move throughout the body. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: What is the ruling on a fasting person using an intramuscular injection to reduce his high fever?
Answer:
There is nothing wrong with that. Intramuscular injections are permissible because they are not nourishing and because they do not mix with the blood; rather, they are under the skin, so there is nothing wrong with them. As for nourishing injections, these break the fast by consensus. As for intravenous injections that are not nourishing, there is scholarly disagreement on them, and the stronger position is that they also break the fast, because they travel with the blood and move throughout the body. Yes.
Source
المنتقى من أخبار سيد المرسلين 13-04-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (46:56)
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