The Ruling on Attending Gatherings of Evil and the Ruling on Perfumes for the Fasting Person
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. The listener Fayyad al-Asmarani also asks: Are perfumes among the things that break the fast in the month of Ramadan?
The Shaykh:
And the rest of the answer. Yes, yes. From a while ago. Yes, yes. The buyer asked: Do we attend these? Yes. The gatherings. And. And we say it is not permissible to attend them except for one who rebukes their people and calls them to Allah the Exalted and Majestic, and hopes for their guidance. As for one who attends them and remains silent and does not rebuke them, it is not permissible for him to do so; because he becomes a partner to their people in the sin, and encourages them in their transgression. And as for his second question, which is
The questioner:
Are perfumes among the things that break the fast in the month of Ramadan?
The Shaykh:
Perfumes are not among the things that break the fast in the month of Ramadan. It is permissible for the fasting person to use perfume on his clothes or on his body, except for perfumes that have a substance that rises to the nose and throat, such as incense. The fasting person does not intentionally smell incense because it rises to the brain and to the throat. Likewise, that powdered perfume, such as musk, from which something rises to the nose and then goes to the brain and to the throat; the fasting person does not intentionally smell this. As for liquid perfumes that are applied to the body or to the clothes, there is no harm in the fasting person using them, and they do not affect his fast. Yes.
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. The listener Fayyad al-Asmarani also asks: Are perfumes among the things that break the fast in the month of Ramadan?
The Shaykh:
And the rest of the answer. Yes, yes. From a while ago. Yes, yes. The buyer asked: Do we attend these? Yes. The gatherings. And. And we say it is not permissible to attend them except for one who rebukes their people and calls them to Allah the Exalted and Majestic, and hopes for their guidance. As for one who attends them and remains silent and does not rebuke them, it is not permissible for him to do so; because he becomes a partner to their people in the sin, and encourages them in their transgression. And as for his second question, which is
The questioner:
Are perfumes among the things that break the fast in the month of Ramadan?
The Shaykh:
Perfumes are not among the things that break the fast in the month of Ramadan. It is permissible for the fasting person to use perfume on his clothes or on his body, except for perfumes that have a substance that rises to the nose and throat, such as incense. The fasting person does not intentionally smell incense because it rises to the brain and to the throat. Likewise, that powdered perfume, such as musk, from which something rises to the nose and then goes to the brain and to the throat; the fasting person does not intentionally smell this. As for liquid perfumes that are applied to the body or to the clothes, there is no harm in the fasting person using them, and they do not affect his fast. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل العطور من المفطرات في شهر رمضان؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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