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Is it permissible to break one's fast to take a painkiller for a severe headache resulting from weeping and longing for the deceased?

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Headache does not permit breaking the fast unless it intensifies to such an extent that one fears harm by not fasting. In this situation, breaking the fast is permissible.

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