The phrase “fa-waṣala ilā jawfihi aw dimāghihi” means that medicine actually reaches the internal cavity or the head cavity. It is especially significant in the discussion of penetrating wounds, where merely applying a treatment and its reaching inward are distinct facts.
A conditional ruling must not be restated without its condition. Otherwise a statement about a particular deep wound is wrongly extended to ordinary surface treatments.
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Kitab al-Sawm: Medication Routes, Treatment, and Fasting Rulings
The phrase “fa-waṣala ilā jawfihi aw dimāghihi” means that medicine actually reaches the internal cavity or the head cavity. It is especially significant in the discussion of penetrating wounds, where merely applying a treatment and its reaching inward are distinct facts.
A conditional ruling must not be restated without its condition. Otherwise a statement about a particular deep wound is wrongly extended to ordinary surface treatments.