• What is the ruling on injecting an injection into a vein or muscle during the day in the month of Ramadan while he is fasting and completing his fast? Was his fast invalidated and must be made up, or not?

•• Answer: His fast is valid; Because an injection into a vein is not of the same kind as eating and drinking, and so is an injection into a muscle from a fortiori, but if it was spent as a matter of precaution, it would be better. And delaying it until the night if the need arises is the first and the most precautionary; out of the dispute in that. God bless everyone.

• If a person tastes food during Ramadan while he is fasting and it does not enter the throat, does the fast invalidate?

•• The answer: There is no embarrassment, the cook and the cook taste the food and they pronounce it and do not swallow it. They taste it and it is okay, they taste it and do not swallow it.

• It happened during Ramadan that we deliberately ate and drank after the call to prayer for dawn, and a long discussion took place between us on this issue.

•• The answer: You have to repent and judge; because the call to prayer investigates the time; And the Prophet – peace be upon him – said: Bilal calls the call to prayer at night, so eat and drink until Ibn Umm Maktum calls the call to prayer, and that is because Ibn Umm Maktum used to call the call to prayer in the morning, and the Endowments are diligent.

As for with the call to prayer and when the call to prayer is needed, there is nothing wrong with it. As for after the call to prayer, it is obligatory to make it up, and not to be lenient in this matter.

Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Baz