Blood comes from my tooth gums and enters my mouth without my awareness during the day of Ramadan, especially after waking up from sleep
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The questioner : The questioner says: May the Shaykh advise me, blood comes from my tooth gums and enters my mouth without my awareness during the day of Ramadan, especially after waking up from sleep. What is the ruling on this blood entering my mouth? Does it invalidate my fast?
The Shaykh : It does not invalidate your fast. As long as you are not aware of it, and it enters without your choice, it does not invalidate the fast, based on the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He:[Al-Ahzab 33:5].
However, I advise the brother questioner, from a medical perspective, to consult dental and gum specialists to examine them, and to maintain them with toothpaste and constant cleaning. This will stop, by the permission of Allah.
And it is strange that I was asked a question, which I will put to you. Look at the answer. Does a person break his fast by swallowing his saliva?
The student: No.
The Shaykh : Be careful, my brother, in haste there is regret. Do you say no? What is the detail?
The questioner : It is that if a person intentionally collects his saliva ... .
The Shaykh : We did not say stone, we did not say anything, after stone what is this! Does one swallow a stone?
The questioner : Some people prefer to bring up saliva, and then intentionally swallow it ... .
The Shaykh : Meaning, you say: If he collects his saliva and swallows it, he breaks his fast, and if he does not collect it, he does not break his fast. Is this it? Is this the detail?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Be decisive.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Okay. I say: It does not break the fast at all, even if he collects it and swallows it. But in my opinion, no one among people collects their saliva and swallows it. Rather, some people, when they stand to recite, the saliva gathers. It gathers without intention. This also does not break the fast. And saliva is blood secreted by the mouth. It is not something external to say that it breaks the fast. Rather, the scholars differed on phlegm if it reaches his mouth and he swallows it. Does he break the fast or not? Some said he breaks the fast because phlegm is not customary saliva. And some said he does not break the fast. This is if it reaches the mouth. As for the phlegm that is from the throat and windpipe and does not reach the mouth, this does not break the fast without dispute. Yes.
The questioner : What is the ruling on using ...?
The Shaykh : For this reason, we criticize some people when they feel phlegm in their bone marrow, they try to bring it up to get it out. This is wrong. Let it go. It does not invalidate the fast.
Yes.
The Shaykh : It does not invalidate your fast. As long as you are not aware of it, and it enters without your choice, it does not invalidate the fast, based on the saying of Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He:
And there is no blame upon you for that in which you have erred but [only for] what your hearts intended
وَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ فِيمَا أَخْطَأْتُمْ بِهِ وَلَكِنْ مَا تَعَمَّدَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْHowever, I advise the brother questioner, from a medical perspective, to consult dental and gum specialists to examine them, and to maintain them with toothpaste and constant cleaning. This will stop, by the permission of Allah.
And it is strange that I was asked a question, which I will put to you. Look at the answer. Does a person break his fast by swallowing his saliva?
The student: No.
The Shaykh : Be careful, my brother, in haste there is regret. Do you say no? What is the detail?
The questioner : It is that if a person intentionally collects his saliva ... .
The Shaykh : We did not say stone, we did not say anything, after stone what is this! Does one swallow a stone?
The questioner : Some people prefer to bring up saliva, and then intentionally swallow it ... .
The Shaykh : Meaning, you say: If he collects his saliva and swallows it, he breaks his fast, and if he does not collect it, he does not break his fast. Is this it? Is this the detail?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Be decisive.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh: Okay. I say: It does not break the fast at all, even if he collects it and swallows it. But in my opinion, no one among people collects their saliva and swallows it. Rather, some people, when they stand to recite, the saliva gathers. It gathers without intention. This also does not break the fast. And saliva is blood secreted by the mouth. It is not something external to say that it breaks the fast. Rather, the scholars differed on phlegm if it reaches his mouth and he swallows it. Does he break the fast or not? Some said he breaks the fast because phlegm is not customary saliva. And some said he does not break the fast. This is if it reaches the mouth. As for the phlegm that is from the throat and windpipe and does not reach the mouth, this does not break the fast without dispute. Yes.
The questioner : What is the ruling on using ...?
The Shaykh : For this reason, we criticize some people when they feel phlegm in their bone marrow, they try to bring it up to get it out. This is wrong. Let it go. It does not invalidate the fast.
Yes.