The Fourth of the Things That Break the Fast: What Is Equivalent to Eating and Drinking (Nutritional Injections) with the Evidence.

The Shaykh : The fourth is what is equivalent to eating and drinking, such as nutritional injections that allow one to dispense with eating and drinking. These break the fast. However, someone might ask: What is the evidence that they break the fast? Because anyone who claims that something breaks the fast must provide evidence; if he provides it, otherwise his statement is not accepted. The default ruling for acts of worship is validity until evidence establishes their invalidity. This is a rule: the default ruling for acts of worship is validity until evidence establishes their invalidity. Second, whatever is established by evidence cannot be lifted except by evidence. This fast has now been established by the evidence of the Shari'ah, so it cannot be lifted or invalidated except by Shari'ah evidence. The questioner says: Based on these two rules, where is the evidence that injections which allow one to dispense with eating and drinking break the fast? We say the evidence for that is that Allah the Exalted said in the Noble Qur'an: And He the Exalted said: The balance is that by which things are weighed and compared. When we weigh these injections that allow one to dispense with eating and drinking against eating and drinking, they are equal in ruling. They are equal in ruling. Thus, the statement that they break the fast is based on analogical reasoning (qiyas), analogizing them to what? To eating and drinking.