📖 FIQH OF RAMADAN ASTHMA PUMP
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ASTHMA PUMP
If someone had an asthma attack and used the asthma pump, the fast will be broken according to Hanafi research. This is because the pump contains medicine, which goes down the throat.
Some people say that it does not break the fast, because the medicine goes into the lungs, not down to the stomach. However, this is not true.
The Fuqahaa have said that smoking cigarettes breaks the fast, and that smoke also goes down to the lungs and not the stomach. Therefore, anything that is swallowed or inhaled deliberately should nullify the fast. Secondly, although most of it
goes in the lungs, some of it does go down the throat and into the stomach.
One may ask, “What should such a person do?” The answer would
be to try and avoid the pump as much as possible. Avoid heavy
activities, which make one short of breath – take it easy during Ramadhan. If one can take time off during Ramadhan they should do so.
Then, if it becomes necessary to take it, use it, but do Tashabbuh Bissaimeen ie. emulate those who are fasting and keep Qadhaa during the shorter days of winter.
If the person is elderly or unable to keep Qadhaa, he/she could give
Fidyah for the fasts.
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Source A Gift for Ramadhan by Shaykh Abdul Raheem
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