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Does Gulping Down Saliva or Mucus Void Fasting?
by: Assim Al Hakeem
Video Transcript
Does saliva
Mucus
Traces of blood if we swallow it. Would it break once fast a
lot of the people, who are
OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Always keep on spinning their saliva and this is totally Haram. It's totally prohibited
Saliva is par
so
To swallow your own saliva is no problem
Even the mucus is not healthy, but it's something inside your body swallowing
It does not have impact on your prayer or your fasting but it's healthier to take it out
but if you swallow it, there's no problem in that as for the blood and
this is
understood when a person visits a
dentist for example and he
does some work and
his gum bleeds so
Is it permissible to swallow that the answer is no?
swallowing your own blood
of course other people blood unless you're on a vampire is
Totally prohibited so you have to refrain from that
To the best of your ability because again, sometimes you are unable to do this
It's your saliva and you have to swallow it you try to level best to not to
If you do it
Unintentionally, there's no problem in that
But doing it intentionally this affects your fasting and one should not do that at all