Question:Can I use mouth gargling during fasting because of bad breath in the mouth as a result of infection in the throat or the like?

Answer:In the name of Allah, it is permissible if it was as a treatment. However, to preserve your fasting, the medicine should be removed from your mouth through gargling several time with water and nothing is to be swallowed inside, whether medicine or water. Allah knows best.

Question:If the fasting person in the month of Ramadan had fondled his wife during the day and was not sure whether or not ejaculation occurs. However, he did not ejaculate. Does this invalidate his fasting? If it does, does he have to perform qadhaa fast?

Answer:In the name of Allah, if he has in his mind that his nature is to ejaculate in case he foreplay his wife, then it is forbidden to do it and his fasting is rendered void. It is permissible if he is sure that ejaculation does not occur. Allah knows best.

Question:In Ramadan, I always cough which is most often accompanied by throwing out some vomit. Does this vomiting invalidate fasting?

Answer:In the name of Allah, fasting is valid so long as there is no deliberate swallowing to the vomit and the process of vomiting is not done deliberately. Allah knows best.

Question:For treating the disease of hemorrhoids, some oil is put inside the anus of patient. Is this oil considered an invalidating injection?

Answer:In the name of Allah, as far as the medicine is liquid, it is considered as injection of liquid. If the medicine was not liquid, but ointment (similar to the butter), it is not considered as liquid injection; therefore, it does not invalidate fasting. Allah knows best.

Question:A fasting person woke up in Ramadhan at 9 am, for example, and found himself on the state of janabat (ejaculated while sleeping). Then, he did not perform janabat wash though the water was available. That was because of laziness or because he was waiting for the water to be prepared for him. If he did tayammum, does it purify him in this case?

Answer:In the name of Allah, here, he must perform janabat wash. Since the water is available and washing can be done, tayammum is not enough to purify him, but his fasting is not invalid if he got delayed to perform janabat wash. Allah knows best.

Question:Scholars says that taking the nutritive solution (like normal saline) does not invalidate fasting. Is it on the basis of recommended precaution, precaution, obligatory precaution or fatwa?

Answer:In the name of Allah, according to me, it must be avoided. Allah knows best.

Question:Can one use the sprayer for the nose in case there is flue while fasting?

Answer:In the name of Allah, if the spray enters the nasal cavity and you can feel the taste, it invalidates fasting. Allah knows best.

Question:If a drop of water or medicine gets inside the back of the mouth down through the ear, which one of the two kinds invalidates the fasting?

Answer:In the name of Allah, neither of them invalidate the fasting. Nevertheless, if he knew that the drop get inside, it is recommended not to use it unless he does not feel its taste. If he feels its taste, he must not use it. In case the doctor obliged him to use it, he has to quit fasting and perform qadhaa fasting with fidiya (compensation). Allah knows best.

Question:If a person does something which results in ejaculation and janabat while fasting, then he seeks forgiveness, is his fasting invalid?

Answer:In the name of Allah, yes it is invalid. He has to refrain from the invalidators (imsak) during the day and he has to pay kaffara and perform qadhaa fasting. Allah knows best.

Question:Is standing under the shower considered some kind of complete immersion of the head in the water?

Answer:In the name of Allah, if the shower was so wide and heavily pouring that the water covers the head in all of its side, it is considered a kind of the complete immersion. If the fasting person stands under this kind of shower knowingly and deliberately, his fasting is invalid and he has to pay kaffara and perform qadhaa fasting. However, his fasting is valid if he washes his head in parts where he washes one part and then another part after taking the first part out of water. If the shower was not of the kind mentioned above, as it is found Iraq, where the water drips, not pours and does not cover the entire head, it does not invalidate the fasting in case the fasting person stands under it. Allah knows best.