{"id":796,"date":"2011-08-21T10:34:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T10:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=796"},"modified":"2011-08-21T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T10:34:50","slug":"dialysis-and-fasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/dialysis-and-fasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialysis and fasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salaam, my husband goes for dialysis three times a week, he is also fasting but many people tell him his fast is not valid. Can you please let us know that is it permissible for him to fast during ramadan?<br \/>\nHe has dialysis in the morning for 4 hours and three to four types of chemicals are added to his blood for cleaning which are removed afterwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In the name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fast will become invalid if anything is inserted through a normal open orifice such as the mouth, nose or private parts and reaches the stomach or the brain. (See Hidayah, vol 1, P220)<br \/>\nWhen dialysis is performed the above conditions are not met, i.e. the substances do not reach the stomach or brain and also the substances do not enter through a normal orifice, therefore the fast would remain as valid.<\/p>\n<p>Only Allah knows best.<\/p>\n<p>Written by:<\/p>\n<p>Sayeedur Rahman<\/p>\n<p>Darul Ifta, Birmingham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salaam, my husband goes for dialysis three times a week, he is also fasting but many people tell him his fast is not valid. Can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}