Fasting: Fasting with Diabetes: When Medical Needs Conflict with Ramadan

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Fasting: Fasting with Diabetes: When Medical Needs Conflict with Ramadan

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Question #753:

Diabetics are required to take insulin injections once or twice a day. Also, their meals should not be delayed or taken at long intervals; otherwise they might go into a coma or get fits. That is why physicians advise them to have four meals a day. Please give your opinion concerning their fasting.

Answer #753:

If they know that abstaining from eating and drinking from dawn to sunset is harmful to their health or they fear so, fasting is not obligatory for them. In fact, it is not permissible for them to fast.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Fasting