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Anal-Injections And Using Suppositories And Similar Things For The Fasting Person
QUESTION: Is one'sfast invalidated by getting an injection in the vein or muscle? And also anal- injections and using ointments or suppositories in the anus because of hemorrhoids, etc.?
Answer by Sheikh Yussuf Al-Qaradawi:
Everybody knows the meaning of a basic fast. It is to abstain from eating, drinking, and going to women with desire. These have been clearly defined in the Qur'an. Also, everybody knows the meaning of these things that are forbidden. The early Arabs during the prophetic era knew it. They did not need to be taught the meaning of food and drink because they knew it by logic. Everybody knows the distinct wisdom for siyaam, which is to make one's worship of Allah manifest by abstaining from bodily desires and also to obtain the pleasure of The Glorified. As Allah said in the hadeeth qudsi “All actions of the son of Adam are for himself except siyaam; Verily it is for Me. And I will reward him for it. He leaves his food, drink, and desire for My sake. “
If this is clear, then we see that getting different kinds of injections and using different kind of ointments, which have been mentioned by the petitioner, are not food or drink in the language aspect or knowledge aspect, and do not contradict the intention of the shari'ah concerning
siyaam. So therefore they do not invalidated ones fast. And this is not the place to become strict in a matter which Allah has not placed in it any difficulty. Allah said in the ayah on siyaam: “Allah intends ease for you and does not intend difficulty for you.” (2:185)
And we know that eating and drinking is not by way of the buttocks, urethra, ears, eyes, nose, or an injury to the stomach or the head. And He never prohibited anything to reach the stomach, other than food or drink, except those which have already been forbidden for us.
Sheikhul-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said concerning kohl, injections, drops of medicine in the urethra, medicines reaching the internal organs by way of surgery, etc.: “What has more support is that these things do not invalidate the fast. Fasting in the religion of Islam is a point of knowledge that is needed to be known by both the scholar and the common person. And if these things (kohl, injections, etc.) are from the things which have been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger concerning siyaam and are things which ruin the fast, then it would have been obligatory upon the Messenger (pbuh) to make this clear. If he did mention this, then the companions would have known it and would have informed the nation about it just as they informed them about the rest of the shari'ah. So when no one from the people of knowledge have transmitted any hadeeth about this from the Prophet (pbuh) - not an authentic, weak, musnad, or mursal hadeeth - then one should know that he has not mentioned anything about this. And Allah knows best.”
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