Injections for Diabetes, Kohl, and Eye Drops for the Fasting Person

The questioner:
He says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, do diabetic injections break the fast?

The Shaykh:
Injections into the vein or the muscle, in the case of feeding, do not break the fast according to the correct opinion. However, if they are feeding injections that provide nutrition, they do break the fast.

The questioner:
The same applies to kohl and drops in the eye and the ear.

The Shaykh:
Drops do not invalidate the fast, neither in the ear nor in the eye. But should they be applied at night or not? To avoid the difference of opinion, and to be safe, one drop or one injection does not break the fast. However, if it is for nutrition, if one is taking injections for food, these break the fast because one is nourished by them. As for drops in the eye or ear, or injections into a muscle or vein, these do not break the fast. But leaving them for the night is better and safer, due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) . Leaving them for the night is more appropriate, better, safer, and further from doubt, except if they are injections for nutrition, in which case one is nourished by them and they break the fast.