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Is it permissible to use perfume while fasting
Question

Is it forbidden to use perfume while fasting?

Answer

The Shāfi‘ī school states that it is recommended for the one fasting to refrain from all forms of luxuries and desires. This would include the application and smelling of perfumes2. They would in all probability be taking their cue from the hadith narrated by Imam al-Bukhari on the authority of Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam said:

Fasting is a shield. [Let the person observing fast] not commit rafath (conjugal relations) and let him not behave ignorantly and impudently … [Allah subhānahu wata‘ālā says], ‘He [the fasting person] has left his food, drink and desires for My sake. The fast is for Me and I will [personally] reward [the fasting person] for it. And each good deed is multiplied ten times.

In another version of the hadith of Abū Hurayrah narrated by ibn Khuzaymah in his Sahih, Rasulullah sallAllahu alayhi wasallm says, “He [the fasting person] leaves his luxuries (ladhdhatahū) for My sake…”

Consequently in keeping with these traditions, the jurists advised the fasting person to refrain from all sorts of luxuries and desires, even though permissible and encouraged at other times, similar to the muhrim or the one in a state of ihram.

And Allah knows best

Shaykh Abdurragmaan Khan

[adapted from www.Shafiifiqh.com]

Accordingly, the application of perfume is not forbidden as suggested by the questioner, rather, its usage is merely not recommended. [↩]