What is the ruling on taking a period suppressant during Ramadan for the sake of fasting?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, what is the ruling on women taking pills to prevent menstruation during Ramadan for the sake of fasting?
The Shaykh : What I see is that a woman should not take medicine or eat pills to prevent menstruation for the sake of fasting, because it has been established for us from the medical standpoint that these pills and drinks have a bad effect on the woman in her womb, in her blood, in her nerves, and in her children in the future.
Then, what harm is there to her if she breaks her fast in Ramadan in obedience to the command of Allah and His Messenger, and then makes it up afterwards? It does not harm her in any way.
Furthermore, it is known in the principles of medicine that if a person tries to prevent natural matters, the result of that will be bad. Leave the body and its nature alone, and let everything that Allah created remain as it is, for that is healthier and better.
The Shaykh : What I see is that a woman should not take medicine or eat pills to prevent menstruation for the sake of fasting, because it has been established for us from the medical standpoint that these pills and drinks have a bad effect on the woman in her womb, in her blood, in her nerves, and in her children in the future.
Then, what harm is there to her if she breaks her fast in Ramadan in obedience to the command of Allah and His Messenger, and then makes it up afterwards? It does not harm her in any way.
Furthermore, it is known in the principles of medicine that if a person tries to prevent natural matters, the result of that will be bad. Leave the body and its nature alone, and let everything that Allah created remain as it is, for that is healthier and better.