Faraz Rabbani – Weekly Q&A Does Getting Your Ears Checked Break the Fast

Bismillahir Rahmanheim does getting

your ears checked break the fast?

Not in the Hanafi school unless something goes

through the ears into the body cavity.

In general,

if you have need for medical appoint

appointments, so there's

harm, there's undue pain or fear of harm,

then you can have them during the day

in Ramadan.

But if they're discretionary,

then it is better to do them either

in the evening time which is often not

feasible

or

outside of the month of Ramadan.

Right, in order to preserve one's fast to

the extent possible but when

one needs to have, you know, medical procedure

someone has,

you know, for example a sister has an

infection

or whatever and she needs to get, you

know, a type of test

that could

that would break her fast, then it's allowed.

Or someone needs surgery and it's not discretionary

surgery, but it is time sensitive,

then one has the surgery and one makes

up that day.

Because that falls under the dispensation of the

one who is sick.