Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Best Way to Deal Dentist Appointments when Fasting

			I've got another issue that I want
to mention, if anybody has to go
		

			to the dentist,
		

			which is sometimes comes about,
you've got a bad toothache, gum
		

			problems or whatever the case is,
you need to go to a dentist. Well,
		

			first and foremost, try to avoid
going in Ramadan to the dentist.
		

			Unless it's in the evening,
there's not going to be many
		

			dentist open after Iftar time,
right. So generally, it's going to
		

			be in the morning time while
you're fasting. And the problem
		

			with the dentist is that you're
not secure of something going down
		

			into your throat. So your fast
will break. So try to avoid it.
		

			But some cases you can't avoid it
because you've got a severe
		

			toothache and toothaches and
earrings are probably one of the
		

			worst kinds of pains that you can
have. Right? That even men feel
		

			right. So because mashallah women,
they bear the pains of childbirth
		

			and so on, and men get away with
that. But when it comes to the ear
		

			aches, and tooth aches, they are
very severe. So if that is the
		

			case, then you have to go to the
dentist and you know, tomorrow.
		

			Firstly, if you get if you're
going to get an appointment, try
		

			to get one in the morning, as
early as possible. And the reason
		

			for this is that in the Hanafi
school, you can still intend to
		

			fast up to half a day, the the
intention doesn't have to be from
		

			the night. So the strategy I'm
trying to suggest here is keep a
		

			keep an appointment in the early
morning, as early as possible.
		

			Don't eat until then. So stay
hungry, but you haven't intended
		

			to fast. So you don't have any
intention to fast, you're just
		

			staying hungry, go to the dentist,
get your surgery done or get your
		

			treatment. If nothing goes down
the throat. Now you are free to
		

			fast, because you still got more
than half the day left. And you
		

			can still make an intention and
the rest of it. And that day will
		

			become a fasting day and you'll
still get your fast. However, if
		

			something did go down the throat,
then you haven't broken a fast
		

			because you didn't have a fast to
start with. So the only thing
		

			you're doing differently is you're
staying hungry, but you're just
		

			not making an intention.
Intentions can be made up to just
		

			before half a day. And day here
refers to from time you begin your
		

			fast at Fajr time, you know when
you have to stop eating at night,
		

			that time to sunset, take that
entire number of hours split in
		

			half. So it's not noon time is not
sunrise to sunset. It's from
		

			Fudger to sunset half that time.
And if you make your get your
		

			intention and just before that,
then you're fast that day becomes
		

			a fast
		

			so that's one way to get your
operation done.
		

			injections do not break the fast
		

			and neither do so injections or
blood tests do not break the fast.
		

			However, it's my crew to do
anything in your fast purposely
		

			that is not normal. That would
weaken you and just make you lie
		

			down all day and not do any
worship because the point of
		

			fasting is not to just lay down
and sleep all day.