Is it permissible for a person with a chronic diabetic condition to break his fast in Ramadan?
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The questioner : A man was afflicted with a disease called in medicine diabetes insipidus...
The Shaykh : What is diabetes?
The questioner : Diabetes insipidus. His medical analysis shows that the pituitary gland in the brain stops secreting the hormone that prevents urination. Naturally, the cause of the severe thirst he suffers from is its continuous nature. He is fasting, so fasting is difficult for him. They prescribed a treatment for him, giving him the missing hormone. This disease is approximately chronic, as the doctors said. What is the ruling on this man’s fasting, and what is required of him?
The Shaykh : If the doctor who ruled that his illness is a chronic disease is first a Muslim and second a skilled expert in his craft and medicine, then his ruling is that he must expiate for each day by feeding a poor person.
The questioner : Is he required to buy the medicine?
The Shaykh : What did you say?
The questioner : The medicine gives him the ability to continue fasting because it compensates for the hormone that... each dose lasts about six hours, which might help him fast. Is he required to buy the medicine in order to fast? The medicine is expensive.
The Shaykh : When does he take the medicine?
The questioner : Of course, the medicine is in the form of a spray or an injection.
The Shaykh : I am asking you, when I ask you about its type, I am asking you when he takes it?
The questioner : The doctor says at iftar and at suhur.
The Shaykh : At iftar and at suhur. And we return to verifying the previous report: did he rule that this disease is incurable?
The questioner : It is incurable.
The Shaykh : Then the answer is what you heard, and he is not obligated to take the treatment.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And you as well.
The Shaykh : What is diabetes?
The questioner : Diabetes insipidus. His medical analysis shows that the pituitary gland in the brain stops secreting the hormone that prevents urination. Naturally, the cause of the severe thirst he suffers from is its continuous nature. He is fasting, so fasting is difficult for him. They prescribed a treatment for him, giving him the missing hormone. This disease is approximately chronic, as the doctors said. What is the ruling on this man’s fasting, and what is required of him?
The Shaykh : If the doctor who ruled that his illness is a chronic disease is first a Muslim and second a skilled expert in his craft and medicine, then his ruling is that he must expiate for each day by feeding a poor person.
The questioner : Is he required to buy the medicine?
The Shaykh : What did you say?
The questioner : The medicine gives him the ability to continue fasting because it compensates for the hormone that... each dose lasts about six hours, which might help him fast. Is he required to buy the medicine in order to fast? The medicine is expensive.
The Shaykh : When does he take the medicine?
The questioner : Of course, the medicine is in the form of a spray or an injection.
The Shaykh : I am asking you, when I ask you about its type, I am asking you when he takes it?
The questioner : The doctor says at iftar and at suhur.
The Shaykh : At iftar and at suhur. And we return to verifying the previous report: did he rule that this disease is incurable?
The questioner : It is incurable.
The Shaykh : Then the answer is what you heard, and he is not obligated to take the treatment.
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And you as well.
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