Injections during the Fast

Question

I have turned to you in order to set my heart at rest on a certain matter and to benefit from your guidance. I hope that you will personally take the trouble, give it your attention and favour me with an answer. The fact is that the Dar al-Ulum of Deoband has recently published a booklet in English on blessed Ramadan. This booklet has been issued on behalf of the rector, Qari Muhammad Tayyib, and therefore carries great weight.

Answer

The quoted definition of the fast: abstaining from eating, drinking and sexual intercourse from true dawn until sunset. An injection — whether it is of 50 cc or less or more — does not impair this definition. What eating and drinking are is self-evident, and an injection is not called eating or drinking. The benefit obtained by delivering water into the vessels ('uruq)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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