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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Do nutritional injections and others break the fast?

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Question : Honorable Shaykh, this questioner asks about nutritional and non-nutritional injections: do they break the fast?

Answer : Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and I send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions, and upon those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Judgment.
The principle is that the fasting person's fast is valid, and it is not permissible for us to invalidate it except with a legal proof. It is known from the legal proofs that the things that break the fast are eating, drinking, sexual intercourse, and the emission of semen through direct contact, or kissing, or something similar. Cupping and vomiting. Post-natal bleeding.
However, if we find something new that is equivalent to these things that break the fast, it is included with them, because the Islamic Shari'ah came from a Wise and Knowing One, so it does not distinguish between two similar things, nor does it combine two different things. Accordingly, if injections do not take the place of eating and drinking, they do not break the fast. Yes.
They are not eating or drinking, nor are they in the meaning of eating and drinking, so the principle is the validity of the fast and its not being invalid. As for if they take the place of eating and drinking, they break the fast because they are in the meaning of eating and drinking. And as we mentioned earlier, the Islamic Shari'ah does not distinguish between two similar things, nor does it combine two different things. What we see in the issue of injections is that whatever takes the place of eating and drinking and one is content with it instead of eating and drinking is a thing that breaks the fast, and whatever is other than that does not break the fast, whether it is taken through the vein or through the muscles.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 1117- هل الأبر المغذية وغيرها تفطر الصائم؟ /سؤال على الهاتف 📞 /ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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