It is common knowledge that bleeding breaks your Wazu (if it is more than a drop that flows).
But does bleeding also break your fast in Ramadan or any other month? Are there different types of bleeding with different rulings?
What if you bleed from your teeth, gums, nose, mouth, or ears? Does that break your fast?
Let’s find the answer the answers to these questions
Read: What breaks your fast? Common scenarios and questions
Does Your Fast Break If You Start Bleeding?
Bleeding can be of different types and each scenario has a separate Islamic ruling.
Let’s discuss them one by one.
1. Bleeding from an external wound
ٰBleeing from any external injury or wound on your hands, legs, or any other part of the body does NOT break your fast.
But if the blood from the wound is enough to flow down naturally, it breaks your Wazu only.
2. Bleeding from your lips, teeth, gums, or mouth
Bleeding from your lips, teeth, gums, or mouth does NOT break your fast if you do not swallow it.
However, if your gums bleed while you sleep and the blood goes down your throat, your fast becomes invalid and you’ll need to keep a Qaza fast.
Similarly, if your teeth bleed or there’s blood on your lips and you swallow it, your fast breaks.
But if you spit the blood out, your fast remains intact.
Read this for a more detailed discussion.
3. Nasal bleeding
No, nasal bleeding does NOT break your fast. The only way it can break your fast is if the blood goes into your mouth and you swallow it (which is rare). But if its normal bleeding from the nose that remains outside your mouth, your fast remains in tact.
4. Ear bleeding
Ear bleeding does NOT break your fast.
In general, any bleeding that doesn’t go inside your throat and stomach does not break your fast except for menstrual bleeding, of course (Read more about it here)
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