Does using a sterilized siwak break one's fast?
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If anything from theak's water or the antiseptic substance added to it reaches the pharynx, the fasting person breaks their fast. Many of the Salaf disliked the wet siwak for a fasting person, fearing that some of its water might be swallowed. Imam An-Nawawi said: "If one uses a wet siwak and some of its moisture or fragmented wood detaches and is swallowed, their fast is broken without dispute."
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