Q&A: Is My Fast Invalidated if Some Powder Went into my Nose?
Question: A person is fasting (nafil fast). When preparing a drink from flavour powder (Tang powdered drink), some of the powder dispersed in the air and entered the person’s nose accidentally. Would it break the fast?
Answer: Bismillah.
If the powder was perceptible in the air, and it was subsequently inhaled into the nose, the fast would be invalidated if the powder reached all the way inside whereby it would have proceeded to enter your throat.
Its entering into your nose to such a degree is improbable — unlike steam or smoke — unless the amount of powder which formed such a body was fairly significant. Accordingly, a person may normally assume validity.
However, if the person was not conscious of the fast at this time, or they were not able to avoid inhaling the powder, no makeup would be due whatsoever.
And Allah knows best.
Tabraze Azam
Amman, Jordan.
11/03/2020
قال شيخي زاده في مجمع الأنهر تعليقا على كلام الحلبي ما نصّه: «(وإن دخل في حلقه غبار أو دخان أو ذباب) وهو ذاكر لصومه (لا يفطر) والقياس أن يفطر لوصول المفطر إلى جوفه وإن كان لا يتغذى به وجه الاستحسان أنه لا يقدر على الامتناع عنه فإنه إذا أطبق الفم لا يستطاع الاحتراز عن الدخول من الأنف فصار كبلل تبقى في فيه بعد المضمضة وعلى هذا لو أدخل حلقه فسد صومه حتى إن من تبخر ببخور فاستشم دخانه فأدخله حلقه ذاكرا لصومه أفطر؛ لأنهم فرقوا بين الدخول والإدخال في مواضع عديدة؛ لأن الإدخال عمله والتحرز ممكن» اهـ
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