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Eye drops while fasting

قطرة العين للصائم

A question about using eye drops while fasting, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that they do not invalidate the fast, even if the fasting person tastes them in the throat. The Department answered that eye drops do not invalidate the fast, even if the fasting person tastes them in the throat. It explained that the eye is not an open passage to the body's interior (al-jawf).

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A question about using eye drops while fasting, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that they do not invalidate the fast, even if the fasting person tastes them in the throat. 1

The question

The questioner asked about the ruling on eye drops for someone who is fasting. 1

The answer

The Department answered that eye drops do not invalidate the fast, even if the fasting person tastes them in the throat. 1 It explained that the eye is not an open passage to the body's interior (al-jawf). 1

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Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4117, dated 27 January 2026. 1 The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.

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  1. Jordan's General Iftaa Department (aliftaa.jo) , fatwa 4117

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islam.museum contributors. “Eye drops while fasting”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/fatwa-aliftaa-jo-eye-drops-while-fasting/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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Wearing an appetite-suppressing or nicotine patch while fasting

A question about wearing an appetite-suppressing or nicotine patch while fasting, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that there is no need for it for someone who takes the pre-dawn meal and breaks the fast as the Sunna teaches, but that it does not break the fast because it is not nourishing and does not enter the body's interior through an open passage. The Department answered that fasting is a great act of worship and one of the pillars of Islam, and that someone who takes the pre-dawn meal and breaks the fast as the Sunna teaches meets no great hardship, so there is no need for such a patch. It said that the patch nevertheless does not break the fast, because it is not nourishing and does not enter the body's interior (al-jawf) through an open passage.