Ramadan question (since it starts next week)?
Question by DriverRob: Ramadan question (since it starts next week)?
If a devout muslim found himself (on holiday or because of work,say) in the arctic or antartic during Ramadan and midsummer, when the sun never sets for a few days, how would he cope?
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Answer by Sara
i guess he should make up a 24 hr cycle. the sun doesnt set but people do go to sleep, wake up, work, eat etc.
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man if he is a true muslim, he will fast if it is mid summer, or it is minus degrees centigrete
atleast if i wuld be there i wuld fast always……
I believe ina situation such as this one would have to use their better judgement perhaps use the fasting times from their hometown or soemtyhing along those lines
I read somewhere what they would need to do but don’t remember at all.
Maybe you can find something at http://moonsighting.com/
I don’t really know…
edit: Here is the link: http://moonsighting.com/6monthdays.html
You can probably find more info if you search through the site a bit.
The issue is by no means confined to Ramadan, nor even to polar regions. The definition of dawn prayer used in Arabia, as due at the beginning of astronomical twilight, doesn’t work in midsummer in northern latitudes as the sun never gets far enough below the horizon. Even in a place no farther north than Seattle, there is a two week period in the summer when there isn’t astronomical twilight.
good question,
a person who live in the arctic who wanna fasting during Ramadan,.. he should follow the time from other place that nearest to arctic..where have a normal day and night..
same like praying 5 times a day where he should follow the nearest place that have normal day and night..as the other way where Islam is ‘rukhsah’ and ‘fitrah’ which mean there is always a way..
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How the onset of Ramadaan is determined
(9) The onset of Ramadaan is confirmed by the sighting of the new moon, or by the completion of thirty days of Sha’baan. Whoever sees the crescent of the new moon or hears about it from a trustworthy source is obliged to fast.
Using calculations to determine the onset of Ramadaan is bid’ah, because the hadeeth of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) clearly states: “Fast when you see it (the new moon) and break your fast when you see it.” If an adult, sane, trustworthy, reliable Muslim who has good eyesight says that he has seen the crescent with his own eyes, then we should take his word for it and act accordingly (i.e., start fasting).
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When to start and stop fasting
(38) Once the entire disk of the sun has disappeared, the fasting person should break his fast, and not pay any attention to the red glow that remains on the horizon, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Once night comes from there and the day disappears from there, and the sun has set, the fasting person should break his fast.” (Reported by al-Bukhaari, al-Fath, no. 1954; the issue is also mentioned in Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 25/216).
The Sunnah is to hasten in breaking the fast. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) would not pray Maghrib until he had broken his fast, if only with a sip of water. (Reported by al-Haakim, 1/432; al-Silsilat al-Saheehah, 2110). If a fasting person cannot find anything with which to break his fast, he should have the intention in his heart to break his fast, and he should not suck his finger, as some of the common people do. He should beware of breaking the fast before the correct time, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) saw some people hanging from their hamstrings with blood pouring from the corners of their mouths, and when he asked about them, he was told that they were people who broke their fast before it was time to do so.” (The hadeeth is in Saheeh Ibn Khuzaymah, no. 1986, and in Saheeh al-Targheeb, 1/420). If a person is certain, or thinks it most likely, or is not sure whether he broke the fast before the proper time, he should make up the fast later on, because the basic principle is that the day is still there and has not ended. (Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 10/287). He should beware of relying on the word of small children or untrustworthy sources, and he should also beware of the time differences between different cities and villages when he hears the adhaan on the radio and so on.
(39) When the dawn comes – which is the white light coming across the horizon in the East – the fasting person must stop eating and drinking straightaway, whether he hears the adhaan or not. If he knows that the muezzin calls the adhaan at dawn, he has to stop eating and drinking as soon as he hears his adhaan, but if the muezzin calls the adhaan before Fajr, he does not have to stop eating and drinking when he hears it. If he does not know the muezzin’s usual practice, or there are differences among the muezzins, and he cannot determine the time of dawn for himself – as is usually the case in cities because of lighting and buildings – he should take the precaution of referring to a printed timetable, so long as he is sure that the calculations on which it is based are not incorrect.
The idea of being on the safe side by stopping eating and drinking a certain time before Fajr, such as ten minutes before, is bid’ah. On some timetables you can see one heading for “imsaak” (stopping eating and drinking) and another for Fajr; this is something that is contrary to Islam.
(40) The Muslims living in cities where there is a distinct alternation of night and day in every twenty-four hour period are obliged to fast, no matter how long the day is, so long as that distinction between night and day is there. In some places there is no such distinction between night and day; Muslims in these places should fast according to the times in the nearest city in which there is a distinct alternation of night and day.
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