DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaumul Ahad, 29th day of Sha'abaan (Sunday 11th April 2021). I have taken a flu-shot during fasting. Will it affect my fasting? What should I do now? Bismillah. 

According to the most preferred position of scholars in Islam, receiving Flu-shot does not invalidate the fast since it does not fall under the category of consumption of food or drink, which we are ordered to refrain from while fasting. Therefore, you need not worry about your fast; but if you broke it, assuming that it did break your fast, then you must make up for the same after Ramadhan. However, it is necessary to point out that the above rule should not be extended to receiving injections of nutrients or glucose; such injections will surely break the fast. If, therefore, a person must receive such injections in the day time during the month of Ramadhan because of health reasons, he or she is allowed to skip and make up for it after Ramadhan. But normal injection which does not contain any nourishment or nutrients doesn't invalidate the fast. Similarly, inhaler does not invalidate our fasting. 

May ALLAH keep guiding us and protect us from any satanic influences. Aameen.