{"id":2021,"date":"2019-09-21T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2019-09-21T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:21:00","slug":"does-the-application-of-a-nicotine-patch-nullify-the-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2021","title":{"rendered":"Does the application of a nicotine patch nullify the fast?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Does the application of a nicotine patch nullify the fast?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. I know that if I smoke whilst fasting, my fast will be invalid. What if I apply a nicotine patch on my arm, would it break my fast? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> A nicotine patch is applied externally and there is no element of it that will nullify the fast. It is similar to a person applying oil or lotion to one\u2019s body, which is absorbed by the skin and does not nullify the fast. <strong>(Al Iktiyaar Lita\u2019leelil Mukhtaar, 1\/190)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the application of a nicotine patch nullify the fast? Q. I know that if I smoke whilst fasting, my fast will be invalid. What if<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}