Question: Is a person who leaves off fasting due to laziness and heedlessness like the one that leaves off prayer in the respect that he is a disbeliever (kaafir)? Response: The one that leaves off fasting out of heedlessness and laziness is not a disbeliever. That is because the basic rule is that a person […]
Month: June 2012
Suffering from blood flowing from between the teeth whenever I touch them.
Question: During one of the days in Ramadhaan, about fifteen minutes before Maghrib, I wiped my teeth with a tissue and some blood began flowing but I had not intended this. I have had this illness for some time and even when I brush my teeth with a miswaak (tooth stick), blood begins to flow […]
Blood flowing from between the teeth accidentally.
Question: Does the blood that comes out from between the teeth accidentally, break the fast? What if it is from other than himself, i.e. that someone had hit him accidentally? Response: Blood which comes out from between the teeth accidentally does not break the fast, whether it is from
Going to the dentist whilst fasting.
Question: If one felt pain in his teeth and went to the dentist who either cleaned them or removed one of his teeth, does any of this have any effect on his fast? If the dentist gave him an anaesthetic injection, does this affect the fast? Response: None of that which is mentioned in the […]
Having a tooth pulled out whilst fasting.
Question: If one causes blood to flow, such as having his molar tooth pulled out? Response: There is no problem, because he did not have his tooth pulled out to cause blood flow, rather, because of pain. So therefore, he wished to have his tooth removed. Then it is the norm that blood will flow […]