(January 27, 2018 at 9:00 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(January 27, 2018 at 8:55 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: No. In case somebody couldn't handle fasting, let it be for sickness or long time, they should pay charity to the poor instead of fasting.
The Quran said it explicitly:
Lol, that says NOTHING about the daylight difference. It's not acknowledged at all in the Qur'an because when Muhammad had no idea about it. An almighty God would know, and at the least make his calender set in the spring or fall. Instead of a lunar one, where the season Ramadan is in changes. People who live in Sweden aren't ill or on a journey. Whoever made up this pillar of Islam obviously had no idea about the daylight difference.
How?
I think fasting for 20 hours or so is the exact example of "hardship".
And the verse even said "So whoever among you is ill or on a journey".
And a small cultural lesson; ancient Arabs traveled all year long, and literally lived most of their days on the road.
