Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

The Ruling on Smelling Incense and Perfumes for the Fasting Person

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
May Allah reward you and benefit Islam and the Muslims through you. This questioner says: Do perfumes or incense count among the things that break the fast?

Answer:
Yes. If one deliberately smells the incense and it reaches his throat, his fast becomes invalid. If he does so, there are two conditions: the first condition is that he does it deliberately, and the second condition is that it reaches his throat. If both are met, his fast is invalidated. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source شرح كتاب الصيام من الروض المربع [3] — alfawzan.live (46:25)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa