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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Ruling on breaking the fast in Ramadan for the sake of taking medication

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His second question is from Adel Nasser al-Fasam, who says: I have a mental illness. I presented myself to a doctor, and he prescribed me doses in the form of pills, for a period of five years, one pill every twelve hours. What should I do, especially in the month of Ramadan, given that the length of fasting in a day reaches fifteen hours? If I delay this time by even less than an hour, this illness—the seizure—may return. Please advise us, may Allah reward you?
Answer: Allah, (Exalted and Majestic is He), says:
So fear Allah as much as you are ableفَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ مَا اسْتَطَعْتُمْ
[Surat al-Taghabun: 16]. So if the illness occurs by delaying the dose from its time, there is no harm in breaking the fast, if the day is long, like fifteen hours in these days. There is no harm in him taking the prescribed pill and breaking his fast with it, and making up this day. He takes it, abstains, and makes it up; because the breaking of the fast is for its sake, he abstains and makes it up afterwards. However, if he is able to postpone it and it does not burden him, then he must postpone it until he takes it at night.
The presenter: He is actually saying: I am not able to postpone...
The Shaykh: As he said, we said: if he is not able, he takes it, and praise be to Allah, and he makes up the day in the short days, in the cold days.
The presenter: In the cold days?
The Shaykh: Those in which the day does not exceed twelve hours. Yes.
Source binbaz.org.sa

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