Fatwa ID: 87769
Title: Do Covid-19 vaccinations break the fast?
Category: Fasting
Scholar: AMJA Resident Fatwa Committee
Date: 03/08/2021

Question

Do Covid-19 vaccinations break the fast?


Answer

All praise be to Allah, and may His blessings and peace be on the final Messenger, Muhammad.

Contemporary Muslim scholars have ruled that non-nutritious therapeutic injections (for example, vaccinations) have no effect on the fast and would not invalidate it. This is the fatwa of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy and various fatwa agencies in several Muslim countries. The basis of this fatwa is that such injections are not like eating or drinking, either in form (entry into the gastrointestinal tract, also called the digestive tract or alimentary canal) or purpose (nutrition and hydration). Based on this, there is no harm in getting a Covid-19 vaccination while fasting in Ramadan, and it does not break one’s fast.  

Allah the Exalted knows best.