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Does swallowing salty saliva, resulting from excessive spitting during rinsing for a fasting woman, invalidate the fast?

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You are not obligated by Sharia to do what you did; rather, it may involve an blameworthy excessiveness. Swallowing saliva does not invalidate the fast, but it is disliked to collect it and then swallow it.

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