The Criterion for Things That Break the Fast: What Enters the Body and What Exits It
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the criterion for the things that break the fast which enter the body?
The Shaykh:
Eating and drinking, and whatever is in the same category as them that nourishes the body and strengthens it. Yes.
The questioner:
And he says: Does everything that exits the body break the fast of the one who is fasting if it weakens his body?
The Shaykh:
What weakens his body is only these substances: vomiting food from the stomach, or intercourse and the emission of semen, meaning this is his strength, or the blood that is drawn from him through cupping; this undoubtedly weakens him. As for urinating or passing wind, this does not harm, or spitting, or something entering that harms; this does not affect it. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the criterion for the things that break the fast which enter the body?
The Shaykh:
Eating and drinking, and whatever is in the same category as them that nourishes the body and strengthens it. Yes.
The questioner:
And he says: Does everything that exits the body break the fast of the one who is fasting if it weakens his body?
The Shaykh:
What weakens his body is only these substances: vomiting food from the stomach, or intercourse and the emission of semen, meaning this is his strength, or the blood that is drawn from him through cupping; this undoubtedly weakens him. As for urinating or passing wind, this does not harm, or spitting, or something entering that harms; this does not affect it. Yes.
Source
مختصر زاد المعاد (للإمام محمد بن عبدالوهاب)، مختصر زاد المعاد [16] — alfawzan.live (47:54)
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