{"id":2745,"date":"2020-04-26T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2020-04-26T17:06:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:06:02","slug":"does-insulin-vitamin-b12-injections-invalidate-ones-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/does-insulin-vitamin-b12-injections-invalidate-ones-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Does insulin, vitamin B12 injections invalidate one\u2019s fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does insulin invalidate\none\u2019s fast? Also vitamin B12 injections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As-sal\u0101mu \u2018alaykum wa-rahmatull\u0101hi wa-barak\u0101tuh.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general injections including insulin will\nnot invalidate ones fast (unless such an injection that went through directly\ninto the stomach). Therefore insulin is permitted to use during fasting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vitamin B12 injections however will be Makrooh\n(disliked) and should be avoided during fasting, as the purpose of these are to\nnourish the body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For details on the laws of fasting see <a href=\"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/my-ramadhan-guide-1441-2020\/\">https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/my-ramadhan-guide-1441-2020\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And Allah Ta\u2019\u0101la Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mufti Arshad Ali<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Darul Iftaa, Jaamia Madinatul Uloom (Trinidad)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatwa-tt.com\"><strong>www.fatwa-tt.com<\/strong><\/a><strong> \/<\/strong><a href=\"www.jaamia.net\"><strong>www.jaamia.net<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Does insulin invalidate one\u2019s fast? Also vitamin B12 injections. Answer: In the Name of Allah, the Most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatwa-tt.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}