It is commonplace to taste food while it is cooking to make sure it tastes right or not. This habit is especially common among restaurant cooks and mothers at home. However, what happens if you continue to do this habit while fasting?
Fasting itself is a form of worship performed by abstaining from eating and drinking and restraining lust from sunrise to sunset. Thus, eating and drinking on purpose is something that can invalidate the fast according to Islamic teachings.
Tasting food while fasting is a matter full of doubts. Not a few Muslims still question the law of tasting food while fasting. Beauties want to know the answer? The following is the explanation.
Is it OK to Taste Food while Fasting?
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Basically, tasting food while fasting is not something that breaks the fast. As long as one tastes a little, no form of food enters the mouth, and the remaining taste of food in the saliva may still be removed.
Different from swallowing food, tasting only attempts to ensure that the taste of the food matches your taste, and does not get swallowed down your throat.
Therefore, citing the website of the Indonesian Ministry of Religion, scholars judge that tasting food while fasting does not invalidate the fast, and the law allows it if it is necessary. For example, for chefs at restaurants or people who want to cook food for breaking the fast. This refers to the opinion of Imam Ibnu Abbas ra:
“Narrated from Ibn Abbas, he said, 'There is no problem if someone who is fasting tastes vinegar or something as long as it does not enter the esophagus/eat.'” (The Musannaf of Ibn Abi Syaibah, vol. 2, p. 304)
On the other hand, it is makruh to taste food for someone who is fasting if there is no specific need, because it has the potential to break the fast. Quoted from detiknews, this was mentioned by Imam As-Syarqawi in his book Hasyiyah Syarqawi 'ala Tuhfah Al-Thullab:
“One of the things that is prohibited when fasting is tasting food because there is a fear that the food will go down your throat. In other words, worry about being swallowed because the desire (to eat) is so dominant. Makruhan actually lies in the absence of certain desires from the person who tastes the food. As for cooks and people who cook to feed their sick children, it is not makruh to taste food.”
How to Taste Food While Fasting
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Tasting food while fasting needs to be done carefully so as not to damage worship. Based on guidance from experts such as Muhammad Hambali and Sheikh Abul Hasan, there is a way to taste food while fasting without breaking the fast.
Place a small amount of food on the tip of your tongue, taste it, and then remove the food from your mouth without swallowing any of it.
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