The Meaning of Enema and the Types of Injections that Break the Fast
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you. A questioner asks: Does the term "enema" refer to the nutritional injection, or does it mean all of them?
The Shaykh:
An enema in the stomach via the rectum is called stomach cleansing, is it not? It is called stomach cleansing. This is not permissible because the blood vessels are nourished by this injection.
The questioner:
Well, may Allah reward you. Regarding injections, does it include both nutritional and non-nutritional injections, or are the injections that break the fast only the nutritional ones, and non-nutritional ones do not? Or are only the nutritional ones the ones that break the fast?
The Shaykh:
Nutritional injections break the fast by consensus, because they are equivalent to eating and drinking. The disagreement is regarding non-nutritional injections that are administered via the vein and mix with the blood; this is where the disagreement lies. As for those administered under the skin, they do not break the fast by consensus; we do not know of anyone who said that they break the fast. So injections are of three types. The first type is what is administered under the skin; this does not break the fast. The second type is what is administered via the vein and is nutritional; this breaks the fast by consensus. The third type is what is administered via the vein and is non-nutritional, being only medicine; this is the subject of disagreement. Yes.
May Allah reward you. A questioner asks: Does the term "enema" refer to the nutritional injection, or does it mean all of them?
The Shaykh:
An enema in the stomach via the rectum is called stomach cleansing, is it not? It is called stomach cleansing. This is not permissible because the blood vessels are nourished by this injection.
The questioner:
Well, may Allah reward you. Regarding injections, does it include both nutritional and non-nutritional injections, or are the injections that break the fast only the nutritional ones, and non-nutritional ones do not? Or are only the nutritional ones the ones that break the fast?
The Shaykh:
Nutritional injections break the fast by consensus, because they are equivalent to eating and drinking. The disagreement is regarding non-nutritional injections that are administered via the vein and mix with the blood; this is where the disagreement lies. As for those administered under the skin, they do not break the fast by consensus; we do not know of anyone who said that they break the fast. So injections are of three types. The first type is what is administered under the skin; this does not break the fast. The second type is what is administered via the vein and is nutritional; this breaks the fast by consensus. The third type is what is administered via the vein and is non-nutritional, being only medicine; this is the subject of disagreement. Yes.
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