I would like to ask about using eye drops while a person is fasting. Are they among the things that invalidate the fast?
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Question:
I would like to ask about using eye drops while a person is fasting. Are they among the things that invalidate the fast? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Many jurists have mentioned that an eye drop, a nasal drop, or something in the mouth, if one intentionally uses it, invalidates the fast of the person who is fasting because it reaches the throat. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade exaggerating in sniffing water, saying: “Exaggerate in sniffing, except if you are fasting.” This indicates that intentionally causing water to reach the throat through the mouth, through the nose, or through the eye is invalidating, because the eye is a passage through which what is placed in it reaches the throat, and its taste is found in the throat. This has been tested, so it is a passage. Therefore, the best and most appropriate course is to avoid these matters, because many scholars hold that they invalidate the fast because they seep into the throat, and the person places them in his eye intentionally, so they resemble the exaggeration in sniffing that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade. Yes.
I would like to ask about using eye drops while a person is fasting. Are they among the things that invalidate the fast? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
Many jurists have mentioned that an eye drop, a nasal drop, or something in the mouth, if one intentionally uses it, invalidates the fast of the person who is fasting because it reaches the throat. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade exaggerating in sniffing water, saying: “Exaggerate in sniffing, except if you are fasting.” This indicates that intentionally causing water to reach the throat through the mouth, through the nose, or through the eye is invalidating, because the eye is a passage through which what is placed in it reaches the throat, and its taste is found in the throat. This has been tested, so it is a passage. Therefore, the best and most appropriate course is to avoid these matters, because many scholars hold that they invalidate the fast because they seep into the throat, and the person places them in his eye intentionally, so they resemble the exaggeration in sniffing that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، أود أن أسأل عن استعمال قطرات العيون والإنسان صائم، هل هي من المبطلات للصوم؟ الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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