Will Having An Injection Break The Fast?

Darulifta Ahlesunnat

(Dawateislami)

Question

  What do the respected scholars and the muftis of jurisprudence say regarding this matter that diabetic patients use insulin injections which are injected in fat layer rather than the vein. So can a diabetic patient use insulin injections in the state of fasting or not? Will the fast break with this or not?Questioner: Muhammad Adnan Attari (Markaz Awliya, Lahore)

بِسْمِ اللہِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ

اَلْجَوَابُ بِعَوْنِ الْمَلِکِ الْوَھَّابِ اَللّٰھُمَّ ھِدَایَۃَ الْحَقِّ وَالصَّوَابِ

  It is permissible to use an insulin injection in the state of fasting. This will not break the fast, as generally, the needle of the injection does not reach the stomach or the internal parts of the routes leading to the stomach or the brain, nor is even any temporary route made for it by which, the medicine could reach the stomach or the internal parts of the routes leading to the stomach. Therefore, this injection is not a means of breaking the fast. Anything entering through the pores is not a negation of the fast anyway, just like applying oil does not break the fast as even though it does enter the body but it does so through the pores, and this is not contrary to fasting.

  It is written in Fatawa Fayz-ur-Rasool: Research entails that an injection does not break the fast, whether it is injected in the vein or the flesh.(Fatawa Fayz-e-Rasool, vol. 1, pp. 516)

وَاللہُ اَعْلَمُ  عَزَّوَجَلَّ  وَرَسُوْلُہ اَعْلَم صَلَّی اللّٰہُ تَعَالٰی عَلَیْہِ وَاٰلِہٖ وَسَلَّم

Answered by:Abu Mustafa, Muhammad Majid Raza Attari Madani

Verified by:Mufti Fuzail Raza Attari