(viii) Vomiting intentionally.

(viii) Vomiting intentionally. Details of these acts will be explained in the following articles. I. Eating and Drinking If a person eats or drinks something intentionally, while being conscious of fasting, his fast becomes void, irrespective of whether the thing which he ate or drank is usually edible or drinkable (like pead or water) or not (like earth or the juice of a tree) and whether it is much or little; even if a person, who is fasting, takes the tooth push out of his mouth and then puts it back into his mouth, swallowing its liquid, his fast will be void, unless the moisture in the tooth push mixes up with the saliva in such a way that it may no longer be called an external wetness.

If a person who is fasting eats or drinks something forgetfully, his fast does not become invalid. Injection of drugs or liquids does not invalidate the fast, even if they are strengthening drugs or food suppliments or dextrose or saline water. Also the inhalers do not invalidate the fast, provided that they allow the drug enter the lungs only.

Using drugs in eyes or ears do not make the fast void too, even if their taste reach the throat, and using drugs in the nose does not invalidate the fast, if they do not reach the throat. If a person observing fast intentionally swallows something which remained in between his teeth, his fast is invalidated.

Swallowing saliva does not invalidate a fast, although it may have collected in one's mouth owing to thoughts about sour things etc, and also there is no harm in swallowing one's phlegm or mucus from head and chest. If a person observing fast becomes so thirsty that he fears that he may die of thirst or sustain some harm or rxtreme hardship which is in tolerable for him, he can drink as much water as would ensure that the fear is averted; this is even obligatory in the case of fear of death.

However, his fast becomes invalid, and if it is the month of Ramaèàn, as an obligatory precaution, he should not drink more than that, and then for the rest of the day, refrain from all acts which would invalidate the fast. A person cannot abandon fast on account of weakness. However, if his weakness is to such an extent that fasting becomes totally unbearable, there is no harm in peaking the fast. II.

Sexual Intercourse Sexual intercourse invalidates the fast, even if the penetration is as little as the glans of the male organ, and even if there has been no ejaculation. III.