Rulings on the Fasting Person Breaking His Fast with What Enters and What Exits
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Question:
This questioner says: We hope that you, our beloved, will clarify for us the management of fasting.
Answer:
In brief, fasting is divided into two categories: what enters the body cavity and what exits from it. What enters the body cavity includes eating, drinking, nourishing enemas, and medications that are swallowed; these break the fast of the one fasting. Blood transfusions and emergency blood administration to a patient also break the fast, because they go into the body cavity and the veins. As for what exits the body cavity, such as bleeding and post-natal bleeding in the case of a woman, because it weakens her, it is not permissible for her to combine the loss of blood with fasting, because this weakens her. Similarly, the emission of semen; the emission of semen also invalidates the fast, and it exits from the body cavity. As for breast milk, Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says that he left his desire, his food, and his drink, so this is a forbidden desire, and it invalidates the fast, whether the semen is emitted through masturbation or through intercourse. If it is through masturbation, it invalidates the fast and requires making up the day only, with no expiation required. If it is through intercourse, it requires repentance to Allah, making up the day, and freeing a slave. Whoever does not find a slave to free must fast for two consecutive months. If he is unable to do so, he must feed sixty poor people.
Likewise, among what exits that breaks the fast is the extraction of a large amount of blood from the body, either by cupping, or by medical suction, whether the intention is to treat the patient by drawing blood, or to treat the fasting person by drawing blood. This is because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he saw a man being cupped while fasting, said: "The one who is cupped and the one who cups have broken their fast." Cupping is strong because it extracts the blood that provides his strength, so fasting weakens him, and these two cannot be combined. However, if he is injured and blood comes out of him without his choice, this does not affect the fast, because it was without his choice. Or if he has a nosebleed, or if he has a nosebleed and blood flows from his side without his choice, this does not break the fast. And among what exits that breaks the fast is vomiting, which is the expulsion of what is in the stomach of food or drink. If he does this intentionally, it breaks his fast. But if it overcomes him and he is overcome by it without his choice, this does not affect his fast. These are the summarized points. Yes.
This questioner says: We hope that you, our beloved, will clarify for us the management of fasting.
Answer:
In brief, fasting is divided into two categories: what enters the body cavity and what exits from it. What enters the body cavity includes eating, drinking, nourishing enemas, and medications that are swallowed; these break the fast of the one fasting. Blood transfusions and emergency blood administration to a patient also break the fast, because they go into the body cavity and the veins. As for what exits the body cavity, such as bleeding and post-natal bleeding in the case of a woman, because it weakens her, it is not permissible for her to combine the loss of blood with fasting, because this weakens her. Similarly, the emission of semen; the emission of semen also invalidates the fast, and it exits from the body cavity. As for breast milk, Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says that he left his desire, his food, and his drink, so this is a forbidden desire, and it invalidates the fast, whether the semen is emitted through masturbation or through intercourse. If it is through masturbation, it invalidates the fast and requires making up the day only, with no expiation required. If it is through intercourse, it requires repentance to Allah, making up the day, and freeing a slave. Whoever does not find a slave to free must fast for two consecutive months. If he is unable to do so, he must feed sixty poor people.
Likewise, among what exits that breaks the fast is the extraction of a large amount of blood from the body, either by cupping, or by medical suction, whether the intention is to treat the patient by drawing blood, or to treat the fasting person by drawing blood. This is because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he saw a man being cupped while fasting, said: "The one who is cupped and the one who cups have broken their fast." Cupping is strong because it extracts the blood that provides his strength, so fasting weakens him, and these two cannot be combined. However, if he is injured and blood comes out of him without his choice, this does not affect the fast, because it was without his choice. Or if he has a nosebleed, or if he has a nosebleed and blood flows from his side without his choice, this does not break the fast. And among what exits that breaks the fast is vomiting, which is the expulsion of what is in the stomach of food or drink. If he does this intentionally, it breaks his fast. But if it overcomes him and he is overcome by it without his choice, this does not affect his fast. These are the summarized points. Yes.
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