Do Pingsan Cancel Fasting? Find Out The Answer Here

YOGYAKARTA Ramadan fasts are mandatory worship for Muslims. However, in practice, a person may fall unconscious because they are not strong enough to endure hunger and thirst for approximately 13 hours. Then, does faint cancel fasting? Come on, find out the answer in the review below.

Pingsan is a temporary loss of consciousness that occurs suddenly for a few seconds or minutes. Generally, fainting is caused by sudden decreased blood pressure, resulting in reduced blood flow and oxygen supply to the brain.

During fasting, fainting can be triggered by various factors, such as dehydration, hypoglycemia (blood sugar levels below normal limits), and low blood pressure.

If this happens, what about fasting? Is it canceled?

Quoted from the page of the Islamic University of An Nur Lampung, the law of fainting while fasting depends on the length of fainting and awareness of fainting people.

According to the opinion of the majority of scholars from Mazhab Maliki, Syafi'i, and Hanbali, fasting for people who fainted a full day (from before dawn to sunset), is invalid and must replace (qadha) on another day.

The reason is that people who faint for a full day have no intention of fasting on purpose and do not refrain from things that break their fast.

This provision refers to the following hadith qudsi:

Why don't you think about it? Let's take care of it, let's take care of it, let's take care of it.

Meaning: 'People who fast leave their food, drink, and lust because of Me.' (HR. Bukhari and Muslim)

Another argument used by this cleric is the Qur'an surah Al-Baqarah verse 185. The following reads:

Let's talk about it, let's talk about it, let's talk about it.

Meaning: 'Who is sick or in a state of safari (so he doesn't fast), then must perform on another day.'

While the opinion of the minority cleric from Mazhab Hanafi and sebagian ulama Syafi'i, fasting for people who faint for a day is legitimate and does not need to replace it. The reason is that people who faint all day are the same as those who sleep so that it does not affect their fast.

For someone who fainted not all day, his fast remained valid and did not need to be replaced on another day.

In this regard, Imam al-Nawawi in the book al-Majmu Syarh al-Muhadzab said:

"People who have the intention of fasting at night, then he faints in part of the sunrise, then the fast is valid if he has woken up in the morning or regained consciousness during the day".

To prevent fainting while fasting, there are a number of things you can do, including:

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