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Sister Sina or Senna from Albania, Mashallah emails and

She says that she suffers from a particular chronic disease or issue and she needs retic regular medication every few hours

She must take medication

Otherwise, there's a severe backlash and Ramadan is coming up and there is a

sublingual tablet a tablet that you put under the tongue that she can use

She doesn't have to ingest the regular regic medication is ingesting

But there is an alternative that you can put under the tongue and she says if she does not take this medication

She will not be able to fast so what should she do should she take this medication under the tongue or should she

And will this break the fast or not?

Not

Now this goes back to a much longer issue

I have actually given a longer detail lecture about the fasting

But today's question is specifically about this issue and the question really is what breaks the fast in terms of

ingestion what breaks the fast is is something that goes into the bloodstream or is it something that goes

You know into the throat or is it a nourishing substance that goes into the bloodstream or the throat all of these are various

interpretations of the of the

Fokaha and this is a controversy that existed even before and with the advent of modernity and we at the advent of drips and with you know

Syringes and giving medication of different ways then obviously the discussion has been compounded. However

If you look at the actions of the Sahaba

It does seem to be that they understood that something that goes in the mouth

But not into the throat that that does not break the fast and it is

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