# Under the microscope: a text on the fast breaking through a 'direct channel'

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/10/
- Date: 2021-01-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (34:42–37:12)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv-BlBVTr4M&t=2082s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/

**Topics:** What breaks the fast

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth mocks a fiqh text saying the fast breaks when a substance reaches the stomach or brain through a 'direct channel'.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth says this is why people are disconnected, and shows a text someone sent him on what breaks the fast: the fast is not invalidated unless a substance reaches the stomach or brain through a direct, normal channel such as the mouth, nose, ears or rear passage. He mocks the idea of something reaching the brain through the ears, and imagines a student of such classes in a senior government meeting reacting to the phrase 'direct channel', which becomes a running joke for the rest of the stream.

## Sources and names cited

- sawm (fasting)

## Transcript (machine tier, 34:42–37:12)

[34:42] [Laughter] them so this is the problem people this is why people are disconnected and if they do pick up any knowledge in the Masjid somebody sent me this uh those of you that can read it let me see if I if any one of the above this is what breaks the fast people two conditions is not met the fast will not be invalidated indeed as such even if a

[35:21] substance was to reach the stomach or brain rather God forbid its knowledge so but it did not enter through a direct normal Channel such as the mouth nose or ears okay I don't know who shoves things into their ears to reach their brain but or rear

[35:55] hole then the fast is broken people the fast is uh is is is broken so this is uh this is the kind of stuff that they that they learn you see that uh a direct Channel you know there's one of the one one of the the B he might attend one of those classes and he's in a I don't know like a really official senior I don't know a government kind of maybe a cobra meeting of the top Elite of of

[36:32] the country and they go right I need a direct Channel he goes huh okay huh say what you doing what this AA directa I thought sorry sorry my f I've been St I've been serious I've been serious I've been seriously uh with sweat and and uh I've been studying studying taking things more uh importantly uh seriously yes yes direct

[37:11] Channel huh direct open up a direct [Laughter] Channel Comm networking this is the kab network work this is what kab has been teaching so people what is going on uh Muti missed some super chats let me see Muti is playing Call of Duty Haram some imams are saying video games are Haram no video games ain't Haram I'm

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment Hv-BlBVTr4M/s/10. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/10/

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