Dr. Zakir: Unconsciousness per se if it’s for a short period while fasting does not break the fast. There is unanimous consensus amongst the Shuyukhs, amongst the Ulema that if he falls unconsciousness for a couple of hours or a few minutes during his time of fasting, it does not break the fast but if he is unconsciousness right from the beginning of Fajr, before dawn up to sunset then his fast is invalid. He’ll have to make up for his fast after the month of Ramadhaan.
Yusuf Chambers: I see. So couple of hours during the day doesn’t nullify the fast. Okay Thank you. Next question, if a person has to eat or drink in order to save his or her life, does that mean that they have to make up that fast later on or is it accepted that fast?
Dr. Zakir: If a person is dying as you said, dying of hunger or dying of thirst…
Yusuf Chambers: Yes…
Dr. Zakir: …while fasting if he feels hungry and thirsty and if he feels that if he does not take something, does not take some food or does not take some water, it will damage some of his organs of the body, if he feels his life is threatened or may cause a major damage to some of his organs then if he breaks the fast to save his life, it is accepted, Allah will forgive him but he will have to make up for his fast after the month of Ramadhaan is over. But if someone finds it hard, difficult to fast because if he’s doing a laborious work or he is finding difficulties, he is feeling thirsty in this case breaking the fast is a sin. But if he is really dying of hunger and then if he breaks, Allah will forgive him but he’ll have to make up for that fast later on.
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