Is legal fasting almost 24 hours? For example in Rovaniemi begin the fast 1:49 am and the end is 00:49 only one hour to eat ? @30masjids
— mariana parra (@MarianaParraMM) July 14, 2014
Debe ser duro celebrar el Ramadán en Rovaniemi ( Laponia ) ahora con 24 horas de luz solar. pic.twitter.com/VZDIHVCBLi — Juan Rama © (@ibuprofeno112) June 28, 2014
Ramadán en Rovaniemi (Laponia) RT @bbcmundo: ¿qué hacen los musulmanes que viven en un lugar sin noche? http://t.co/wIcDgwW0
— Pablo Bello (@pablobello) August 19, 2012
Read: Arctic fasting – How Muslims in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland cope with the long summer days during Ramadan http://t.co/s3Mz7Qtz — Mark Bosworth (@markbosworth) August 18, 2012
…The town of Rovaniemi in Finland lies in a land of extremes.
At 66 degrees north it straddles the Arctic Circle in Finnish Lapland. During midwinter it is cloaked in total darkness. But in the summer it is bathed in daylight.
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It is 11 o’clock in the evening and the sun has only just dipped below the horizon. The sky has turned a beautiful deep, rich blue. This is as dark as it will get, then the sun will rise again in five hours.
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There is another option which reduces the number of fasting hours – mark its duration by the rising and setting of the sun in countries far to the south of Finland. Dr Abdul Mannan – a local Imam and president of the Islam Society of Northern Finland – says there are two schools of thought.
“The Egyptian scholars say that if the days are long – more than 18 hours – then you can follow the Mecca time or Medina time, or the nearest Muslim country time,” says Dr Mannan.
“The other (point of view) from the Saudi scholars says whatever the day is – long or short – you have to follow the local time.”
Dr Mannan says the majority of Muslims in northern Finland observe either Mecca’s fasting hours or Turkish time because it is the nearest Muslim country to Finland.
— Ramadan Fasting Where the Sun Never Sets – By Mark Bosworth (@markbosworth), BBC News, August 17 2012
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@30masjids It was a good article about that
— mariana parra (@MarianaParraMM) July 20, 2014
@30masjids Thanks for answering 🙂
— mariana parra (@MarianaParraMM) July 20, 2014
