What serves as a substitute for eating and drinking, such as nutritional injections.
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The Shaykh : The sixth: What is in the meaning of eating and drinking, which is in the meaning of eating and drinking, namely the nutritional injections by which one dispenses with eating and drinking, and the patient remains on them until Allah grants him healing. These are the nutritional injections, and I do not know if there is a doctor around who can tell us their name. Yes.
The student: Jili Kuz.
The Shaykh : ... Yes, Jili Kuz. These are the nutritional injections. Yes, they are the ones by which one dispenses with food and drink. They are the ones that invalidate the fast. Generally, my brothers, generally, they are not needed except for an illness that permits breaking the fast. If a person falls ill, whether... he has the option to break the fast. As for stimulant injections, medication injections, sugar injections, and many other types, they do not break the fast, whether they are in the visible veins or in what? The muscles. They do not break the fast.
If someone asks, "What is your evidence that they do not break the fast?" we can say, "What is your evidence that they do break the fast? What is your evidence that they break the fast? How do they invalidate the fasting of Allah's servants without evidence?" We do not accept that. Which is more cautious now: to say they break the fast, or to say they do not break the fast? To say they do not break the fast, because if we say they do not break the fast, we have been cautious regarding the worship and have not invalidated it, and we have not said to exit from it except with clear evidence. So, which injections break the fast? You see some people call it an injection; we call it an injection, and some people call it a needle. Yes, I was asked by someone in this Holy Mosque, "Does the needle break the fast?" I thought he meant the thorn... on his leg, so I did not understand until he pointed to me, or pointed at me, and said, "Here." Then I knew it was the injection. And I also think, I think the word "injection" is also not a matching name... because the needle is not hollow, and the needle and the nail are the same, and no one says, "Let us drive a nail... what? An injection." The apparent, the apparent best matching term for it is "injection." Yes, what?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Syringe. Hmm, it appears that this is a foreign word from beyond the non-Arabs. Well, in any case, these nutritional injections, unlike the non-nutritional ones, do not break the fast.
If someone asks, "What is your evidence?" because, my brothers, the reality is that Allah the Exalted will ask us on the Day of Resurrection, "What is your evidence for invalidating the worship of My servants?" We will be in a difficult position. What is the evidence? The evidence, and Allah knows best, is that we say the Islamic Shari'ah does not distinguish between two similar things, and there is no difference between the body being nourished through eating and drinking or through these injections. Therefore, we said that nutritional injections break the fast, and non-nutritional ones do not break the fast.
The student: Jili Kuz.
The Shaykh : ... Yes, Jili Kuz. These are the nutritional injections. Yes, they are the ones by which one dispenses with food and drink. They are the ones that invalidate the fast. Generally, my brothers, generally, they are not needed except for an illness that permits breaking the fast. If a person falls ill, whether... he has the option to break the fast. As for stimulant injections, medication injections, sugar injections, and many other types, they do not break the fast, whether they are in the visible veins or in what? The muscles. They do not break the fast.
If someone asks, "What is your evidence that they do not break the fast?" we can say, "What is your evidence that they do break the fast? What is your evidence that they break the fast? How do they invalidate the fasting of Allah's servants without evidence?" We do not accept that. Which is more cautious now: to say they break the fast, or to say they do not break the fast? To say they do not break the fast, because if we say they do not break the fast, we have been cautious regarding the worship and have not invalidated it, and we have not said to exit from it except with clear evidence. So, which injections break the fast? You see some people call it an injection; we call it an injection, and some people call it a needle. Yes, I was asked by someone in this Holy Mosque, "Does the needle break the fast?" I thought he meant the thorn... on his leg, so I did not understand until he pointed to me, or pointed at me, and said, "Here." Then I knew it was the injection. And I also think, I think the word "injection" is also not a matching name... because the needle is not hollow, and the needle and the nail are the same, and no one says, "Let us drive a nail... what? An injection." The apparent, the apparent best matching term for it is "injection." Yes, what?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Syringe. Hmm, it appears that this is a foreign word from beyond the non-Arabs. Well, in any case, these nutritional injections, unlike the non-nutritional ones, do not break the fast.
If someone asks, "What is your evidence?" because, my brothers, the reality is that Allah the Exalted will ask us on the Day of Resurrection, "What is your evidence for invalidating the worship of My servants?" We will be in a difficult position. What is the evidence? The evidence, and Allah knows best, is that we say the Islamic Shari'ah does not distinguish between two similar things, and there is no difference between the body being nourished through eating and drinking or through these injections. Therefore, we said that nutritional injections break the fast, and non-nutritional ones do not break the fast.