Does cupping without the tube break the fast?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, if the cupper...
The Shaykh : If so.
The questioner : If the cupper performs cupping without the tube.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : What is the ruling on fasting?
The Shaykh : If the cupper performs cupping without the tube, meaning with instruments separate from his mouth, the school of thought is that it breaks the fast, because they consider that cupping which breaks the fast is based on worship (ta'abbud), not on analogy and reasoning. The Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) chose that it does not break the fast, based on the fact that the operative cause is rational, and if the cause is absent, the ruling is absent. In my view, this is closer to the truth than the opinion that it breaks the fast. So, if there are instruments by which people are cupped without the cupper sucking the cup, he does not break his fast in that case. Just as if he draws blood by incision or lancing, or in order to cup a patient who needs blood, he breaks his fast according to the stronger opinion, even if it is not cupping. Yes, after that.
The Shaykh : If so.
The questioner : If the cupper performs cupping without the tube.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : What is the ruling on fasting?
The Shaykh : If the cupper performs cupping without the tube, meaning with instruments separate from his mouth, the school of thought is that it breaks the fast, because they consider that cupping which breaks the fast is based on worship (ta'abbud), not on analogy and reasoning. The Shaykh al-Islam (may Allah have mercy on him) chose that it does not break the fast, based on the fact that the operative cause is rational, and if the cause is absent, the ruling is absent. In my view, this is closer to the truth than the opinion that it breaks the fast. So, if there are instruments by which people are cupped without the cupper sucking the cup, he does not break his fast in that case. Just as if he draws blood by incision or lancing, or in order to cup a patient who needs blood, he breaks his fast according to the stronger opinion, even if it is not cupping. Yes, after that.