Ramadan 2023 is just around the corner, which involves fasting from sunrise to sunset, but would vaping count as breaking your fast?
Vaping has soared in popularity in recent years, with many turning to vapes as an alternative to smoking. Some claim it has fewer health risks compared to cigarettes, but the long-term impacts on your body are still unknown as it's such a new product.
With that in mind, there is some debate over whether you can vape, or even smoke, while fasting. Fasting is an important part of Ramadan, and is one of the five pillars of Islam.
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During Ramadan, Muslims must fast between sunrise and sunset, but also avoid things like sex during fasting hours, swearing, lying, cheating, unnecessary fighting and much more. Throughout the month, certain things are either halal (permissible) or haram (forbidden).
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The topic of smoking cigarettes or tobacco products during Ramadan has well been documented and discussed throughout the years. Most agree that even though smoking is not mentioned in the Quran, it is haram because of the harmful effects it has on your body, because harming yourself or others during Ramadan is haram.
However, there are some scholars who argue that smoking is only forbidden depending on the way the nicotine enters your body. They argue that ingesting the nicotine is technically similar to eating, and so smoking counts as breaking your fast.
Islamic education group AlMaghrib Institute research say that it "is impermissible to use e-cigarettes because of their harmful nature, and in addition they also break the fast due to the ingestion of nicotine as well as the manner of its ingestion, identical to the rulings applied to normal cigarettes."
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