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Sunday 14 Jun 2015 - 14:42 Makkah mean time-27-8-1436
Picture shows the city of Malmoe's mosque, southern Sweden. Photo from AFP
Stockholm, (IINA) - Muslims in the Nordic region can expect new guidelines for coping with a sun that never sets ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, The Express Tribune reported citing a Swedish Muslim association.
“We’ve got two difficult questions, not just when you can break the fast in the north but also when you should start fasting,” said Muhammad Kharraki, a spokesperson for Sweden’s Islamic Association.
In previous years Muslims in sub-Arctic towns like Kiruna were advised to break their fast at the same time as people in the south but a meeting of Swedish and European imams in northern Sweden this week recommended a new approach.
“Now you should go by the last time the sun clearly set and rose,” said Kharraki, adding that detailed guidelines were still being worked out and could also involve breaking the fast in the early evening to be more in line with the rest of the world.
The new rules being drawn up by a pan-European association - the European Council for Fatwa and Research - are expected to apply across the continent and will include advice on situations where Muslims can break the fast to avoid collapsing from lack of food and water.
SM/IINA
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