BLEEDING GUMS WHEN FASTING: Shafei School

Indonesian

Origin: GUSI BERDARAH SAAT PUASA (Madzhab Syafi’iyyah) by Muhammad Labib lisenced by  Creative Commons Atribution 4.0 Internasiona License.

It is a disgusting thing for some people, when they're fasting their gums are often bleed. So they feel overwhelmed to handle it, even though it has been purified with a mouth gargle several times, still the blood seeping out of the gums. Whereas saliva which became impure (mutanajjis) by blood breaks the fasting if we thrash.

Then, what is the ruling on
swallowing blood? Here's a little blurb that might be useful.

Basically the fast can be broken with the inclusion of something into the body, which is called jauf (in part) through an open  entrance lines. [1]  Such as the inclusion of something into the ear of roughly walked into the interior, or enter into the mouth passes through the throat.

But ulama except pure saliva which hasn’t been moved from its mine, namely all part of mouth. [2] Saliva does not invalidate the fast even though he went to the inside by passing through the throat, with the condition that it is still pure and not mixed with anything from outside.

Whereas, impure saliva or mixed one with goods from outside can invalidate the fast. Including the saliva exposed to blood from his own gums, because blood gums make saliva becomes impure (mutanajjis). Before it's purified with water through gargling, saliva remains mutanajjis even though blood was lost, and although saliva becomes pure again like it was before. [3]

However, the ruling becomes different if a person is exsposed a trial with frequent bleeding from the gums and hard to keep away. Impure saliva does not break the fast. In Fatch al-Mu'in work of Zainuddin al-Malibari pupil of Imam Ahmad ibn Hajar al-Haitami it’s mentioned that

وقال شيخنا ويظهر العفو عمن ابتلي بدم لثته بحيث لا يمكنه الإحتراز عنه[4]

It means: “Our teacher said, apparently there is forgiveness for those exposed to a trial with blood from the gums, approximately cannot or is difficult to avoid.”

Thus, people who have problems with bleeding gums can get relief, because fasting is not broken by saliva which he ingested and has been mixed with the blood.

Hopefully in the running of fasting there is no obstacle that means. Allah will not complicate his servants in giving the obligations. Lā yukallifullāhu nafsan illā wus'ahā.

Please, for those who want, carry out fast even though it is not in the month of Ramadan, because fasting has many benefits, both Islamic and secular.

A little suggestion for the often bloody gums, please multiply the fruits containing vitamin c. because according to information, bleeding gums is caused by lack of vitamin c.

Wallahu a’lam

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Al-Hadlrami, Abdullah, al-Muqaddimah al-Hadlramiyyah, Semarang, al-Alawiyyah, n.y.

Al-Haitami, Ahmad, al-Minhāj al-Qawīm ‘alā al-Muqaddimah al-Hadlramiyyah, Semarang, al-Alawiyyah, n.y.

Al-Malibari, Zainuddin, Fatch al-Mu’īn bi Syarch Qurrat al-`Ain, Semarang, Karya Toha Putra, n.y.

Baalawi, Abdullah, Sullam al-Taufīq, Semarang, al-Alawiyyah, n.y.

Nawawi, Muhammad, Mirqāt Shu’ūd al-Tashdīq fī Syarch Sullam al-Taufīq, Semarang, al-Alawiyyah, n.y.

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[1] Look at Abdullah al-Hadlrami, al-Muqaddimah al-Hadlramiyyah, (Semarang: al-Alawiyyah, n.y), pg. 118-119

[2] Look at Abdullah Baalawi, Sullam al-Taufīq, (Semarang: al-Alawiyyah, n.y), pg. 43 and Abdullah al-Hadlrami, Ibid., pg. 119

[3] Look at Muhammad Nawawi, Mirqāt Shu’ūd al-Tashdīq fī Syarch Sullam al-Taufīq, (Semarang: al-Alawiyyah, n.y), pg. 43 and look also at Ahmad al-Haitami, al-Minhāj al-Qawīm ‘alā al-Muqaddimah al-Hadlramiyyah, (Semarang: al-Alawiyyah, n.y.) pg. 119

[4] Zainuddin al-Malibari, Fatch al-Mu’īn bi Syarch Qurrat al-`Ain, (Semarang: Karya Toha Putra, n.y), pg. 56