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Is it permissible to sniff snuff to bring on a sneeze and ease one’s breathing?

Answered by
Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
Published
3 July 2005

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Question

Is it permissible to sniff snuff to bring on a sneeze and ease one’s breathing?

Answer


If the thing he is sniffing is only a smell, it does not invalidate the fast. But if the meaning of snuff is what is commonly meant, such that it resembles a powder that one sniffs and it reaches his body cavity, then his fast is invalidated. This is what is said by the vast majority (jumhur) of scholars, as Imam al-Nawawi indicated in his Majmu`.

Amjad Rasheed

[Translated by Sr. Shazia Ahmad]

 

السؤال: ما يشمه بعضُ الناس مما يسمى بـ ( السعوط ) لتحصيل العطاس وتسهيل التنفس هل يبطل الصوم أم لا ؟

الجواب : إن كان ما يشموه مجردَ رائحة فلا يبطل الصوم ، أما إن كان السعوط كما هو متداول عبارة عما يشبه الدقيق فيشتمه الشخص فيصل إلى جوفه فهو مبطل للصوم ، وبه قال جماهير العلماء كما أشار إليه الإمام النووي في "المجموع" .

 

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