Question Summary:
Question on using deodorant while fasting

Question Detail:

If one intentionally uses deodorant spray knowing that you are fasting and then despite your efforts to hold your breath or cover your mouth and nose with a cloth you still inhale and you feel the smell strongly on your nose, will the fast still break and will the kaffarah have to be performed?
And is intentionally deodorant is used but one forgets to take measures to prevent inhalation will the fast break then?

Answer :

Answer:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
In principle, if one uses a deodorant spray or any other spray that has a chemical form and makeup in the state of fasting and such a spray passes one’s throat while fasting unintentionally, then one’s fast is not broken.
However, if such sprays pass one’s throat intentionally, then one’s fast is broken on account of such an action.[1] 
Since the passing of such sprays is unintentional in both the scenarios in reference, one’s fast is still valid.
If one’s fast is broken due to the intentional inhalation and passing down of such sprays, then both Qadha and Kaffarah becomes Wajib.[2]
We advise one to be more cautious and careful when using such sprays as they could jeopardize one’s fast.
And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best
Moulana Ismail Desai,
Student Darul Iftaa
Durban, South Africa
Checked and Concurred by,
Mufti Faisal bin Abdul Hameed,
Montréal, Canada

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