QUESTION:
There is a lot
of talk among the people about some medicine that controls and reduces the
feelings of hunger and thirst in the body. Some people use this medicine during
the month of Ramadan. What is the ruling on taking this medicine? For
more information on this medicine please see the following site:
http://fasting.ramadantablet.com.
ANSWER: With regard to the
medicine referred to in the question, according to the website mentioned, it is
a tablet that contains herbs and substances that it is permissible to use and
consume, and it is called the “Ramadan tablet.” it contains different types of
vitamins (B1, B2, B6, B12) and other substances that are beneficial to the body
and which provide energy to the body during the day and reduce feelings of
hunger, because these substances are able to help the brain to issue orders to
the body to seek nutrition from excess fat in the body instead of from the
empty stomach.
There
is no doubt that taking these tablets and medicine during the day in Ramadan
breaks the fast and no one would dispute that, because it is the kind of food
which reaches the stomach directly. It seems that the question is about
the ruling on taking this tablet at night, before dawn, because this medicine
has the ability to give the body ongoing energy and it has the ability to
prevent feelings of hunger. So some may think that it is not permissible to
take it at night, because it has a lasting effect during the day. But this is
mistaken thinking. Rather it is permissible to use it, so long as it is taken
at a time when it is permissible to consume food and drink.
With
regard to its ongoing effect during the day, that does not mean that it cannot
be taken. There is no difference between it and the food eaten at sahoor. One
of the important reasons for delaying eating sahoor is that it gives the body
more strength to be able to fast during the day. It was narrated that Anas
Ibn Maalik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Prophet (blessings and peace
of Allah be upon him) said: “Eat sahoor, for in sahoor there is blessing.”
Narrated by al-Bukhaaree (1823) and Muslim (1095).
Al-Haafiz
Ibn Hajar said: In the hadeeth of Anas, “Eat sahoor, for in sahoor
there is blessing”, what is meant by blessing is reward, or it is blessed
because it gives one strength and energy to fast, and makes it less
difficult. And it was said that the blessing coming from waking up and
offering du’aa’ at the end of the night, before dawn. It is most likely
that the blessing of sahoor comes from a number of things: it is following the
Sunnah, differing from the People of the Book, it gives one strength for
worship, increases energy, wards off the bad attitude that may result from
being hungry, makes one give charity to the one who asks at that time or joins
him to eat, it reminds one to remember Allah and call upon Him at times when a
response is most likely, and reminds one to form the intention of fasting for
the one who forgot to do so before he went to bed. Fath al-Baari,
4/140
Shaykh
Muhammad Ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said,
discussing the blessings of sahoor:
"One
of its blessings is that it supplies nourishment to the body throughout the day
and helps one to be patient in refraining from food and drink, even during the
long, hot days of summer, whereas when a person is not fasting you will find
him drinking five or six times a day, and eating twice. But Allah has instilled
blessing in sahoor, so it makes the body able to cope with fasting." Liqa’
al-Baab al-Maftooh (Introduction to no. 223).
To
sum up: there is nothing wrong with taking these tablets.[1]
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