Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Does breathing artificialoxygen break the fast?

Some patients who have difficulty breathing need to breathe artificial
oxygen whilst fasting. Does this have any effect on the fast?.
Praise be to Allaah.
The oxygen that is given to some patients does notinvalidate the fast,
because nothing else is added to this oxygen, so it comes under the
same ruling as breathing natural air.
Hence in a statement of the Islamic Fiqh Council it says:
The following things are not regarded as things that break the fast: …
oxygen. End quote.
See: Majallat Majma' al-Fiqh al-Islami (10/2/96,454), Muftiraat
al-Siyaam al-Mu'aasir, by Dr. Ahmad Khaleel, p. 50.

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