The obligation of those afflicted with diabetes in the month of Ramadan
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Regarding those afflicted with diabetes, what does Shaykh Abdul Aziz say to people like them?
Answer: This is as mentioned previously. If the illness harms them and they are unable to fast with it, or if fasting becomes difficult for them due to an increase in their illness and significant, clear fatigue, or if it causes their condition to fail to heal, then they may break their fast. However, if the illness is ordinary for them, whether they fast or not, and it remains with them without changing or harming them, then fasting is obligatory for them; because it is an ordinary illness that fasting does not harm them with. Their case is similar to that of the emaciated or the elderly person whom fasting does not harm. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you. What if they need to take a type of medication, perhaps injections or the like?
The Shaykh: As for eating, no; pills or drinks break the fast of the one fasting. As for injections in the muscles or veins that relieve asthma or the like, there is no harm in that, if Allah wills; because these injections, in our belief and in what we issue as rulings after research, are not considered eating or drinking, but rather treatment and medicine. Yes.
The presenter: Is there a difference between injections taken through the vein and injections taken through another route?
The Shaykh: The correct view is that there is no difference in that. The correct view is that there is no difference, even though vein injections are more effective, but there is no difference regarding breaking the fast. As for injections taken for nutrition in place of food and drink, by which they are nourished, these take the place of food and drink, so they are nutritional injections and they break the fast. Whoever takes them breaks his fast with them. Yes.
Answer: This is as mentioned previously. If the illness harms them and they are unable to fast with it, or if fasting becomes difficult for them due to an increase in their illness and significant, clear fatigue, or if it causes their condition to fail to heal, then they may break their fast. However, if the illness is ordinary for them, whether they fast or not, and it remains with them without changing or harming them, then fasting is obligatory for them; because it is an ordinary illness that fasting does not harm them with. Their case is similar to that of the emaciated or the elderly person whom fasting does not harm. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you. What if they need to take a type of medication, perhaps injections or the like?
The Shaykh: As for eating, no; pills or drinks break the fast of the one fasting. As for injections in the muscles or veins that relieve asthma or the like, there is no harm in that, if Allah wills; because these injections, in our belief and in what we issue as rulings after research, are not considered eating or drinking, but rather treatment and medicine. Yes.
The presenter: Is there a difference between injections taken through the vein and injections taken through another route?
The Shaykh: The correct view is that there is no difference in that. The correct view is that there is no difference, even though vein injections are more effective, but there is no difference regarding breaking the fast. As for injections taken for nutrition in place of food and drink, by which they are nourished, these take the place of food and drink, so they are nutritional injections and they break the fast. Whoever takes them breaks his fast with them. Yes.
Source
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