Monday 27 May 2019

How to pray and fast in countries where the day or night is continuous

Dear Sir Ali Sina,

I am an ex-muslim from Bangladesh. some months ago i came to know about your site. I went through many articles of your site and those were really wonderful.

Now i really in need of your help. Recently i got involve in a debate with my friends who are “so-called” moderate muslims about fasting in polar region. As far as i know the inhabitants of polar region will not be able to fast or even detect the time of pilgrimage according to islam. But many islamists are coming up with solutions like these

http://www.imamreza.net/eng/imamreza.php?id=4110

www.islamqa.com/en/ref/5842

Now can you prove that this solutions are hoax and they contradict with quran and hadith? If u write some details in your site it will be a very good addition in your forum thread. Please help your me to win this debate,help to prove their claim wrong,i will be very grateful if you do this and it will be another defeat for islam.

Sincerely yours

Shafaet

Muslims love to fool themselves in any way possible to make Islam look rational.  This is one example of that.  The hadiths are clear about the time of prayer and fasting. These scholars agree that the time for salat should not change, irrespective of the length of the day. Whether the day is 15 minutes long or 23:45  hours  long, you can still fit five time prayers in them.  When days are short you say your prayer fast. Think of old Charlie Chaplin’s movies.    

However, when it comes to fasting these scholars say one can postpone his fasting for another time of the year if fastomg becomes too harsh. So, if Ramadan falls in summer, a Muslim living in north pole can postpone fasting for for winter when days are a few minutes long.

Another recommendation of these scholars is to follow the time of sunset and sunrise of a nearby country where day and night are distinguishable.  Is there any hadith backing this recommendation? They just made that up. 

They also say if days and nights are distinguishable then one has to fast during the day, no matter how long it may be, as long as it does not cause the believer death or health hazard, and eat drink and have intercourse during the night.  What if the night is only a few minutes long?   I suppose Muslims will go to bed with a sandwich in one hand and a drink in another and munch and drink fast while quickly having sex.  Meanwhile, they will keep an eye at the sky to see if light is coming out to stop eating and end their sex session, and jump into the shower for ablution for the fajr prayer.

Who said Islam is humorless? 

Regards 

Ali Sina

Source: http://www.faithfreedom.org/2009/09/06/how-to-pray-and-fast-in-countries-where-the-day-or-night-is-continuous/

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