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.