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Unintentionally inhaling dust while fasting

· 5 Shaʻban 1446 AH1 min readEnglish

Question

My question is related to the validity of the fast.

While doing my Kaffarah, I was cleaning my home and dusting off some shelves on the 58th day out of 60 days. Some dust flew in the air and I inhaled it. I looked the issue up in Maraqi al-Falah and it said in the chapter of that which does not invalidate the fast, "dust or smoke alongside smoke from wood or incense entering one’s throat without one’s doing".

Here, it is mentioned, that smoke and dust which is inhaled by ones own doing will invalidate the fast. Does the aspect of causing it oneself only apply to smoke or does it apply to dust, too?

Is the scenario I described classed as deliberately causing it myself? Do I have to restart my Kaffarah because of the fast becoming invalide or is the fast still valid?

Answer

Since this was unintentional, your fast did not break.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by
Mufti Zakaria Makada
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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