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Are Toothpastes and Other Mouth Fresheners Allowed While Fasting ?
by: Assim Al Hakeem
Video Transcript
Okay brushing teeth using toothpaste
While fasting is it allowed can it be done more than once a day? Can we use mouth?
Freshener spray can we eat chewing gum first of all?
The issue of brushing your teeth
This is a Sunnah the Prophet
used to use this
known as miswak and
The companion of the Prophet
countless of numbers during the day while fasting
uh-huh, which means that brushing your teeth is okay now some scholars put
restrictions on using toothpaste because
toothpaste has
mass to it
So if you swallow some of it
You would break your fast but usually people
Brush the teeth well until it's dissolved and then when they turn the water in the mouth and spit it out
It's all gone. All what remains is the taste and the taste is no problem
It does not impact your fasting so can I do it number of times a day? No problem
Can I use?
Mouth spray. Oh
this is different if you said
mouthwash
Where you turn the water in your mouth and you spit it out?
Nothing is left. No residue nothing. There's no problem when you use a mouth spray
This is liquid and you don't spit it out. You swallow it this breaks your fasting and
You have to be careful
Likewise showing them
Chewing gum has particles in it that dissolve and you swallow that with your saliva and this
You're fasting