Does the fasting person break their fast if they swallow their saliva after licking their lips, which have been moistened with a slight, unseparated wetness remaining from the water of Wudu or Ghusl, whether intentionally or by mistake? And is it obligatory to dry the body parts after every Wudu?
Swallowing saliva after intentionally or unintentionally licking the lips does not invalidate the fast. Drying the limbs after ablution is not obligatory; rather, it is permissible according to the majority of scholars, and some have stated that it is disliked.
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