Ramadan and fasting.

[jamesy boy]

...Can anybody put me and my colleagues (including two Muslim women) out of our collective misery?
During Ramadan, Muslims are not allowed to eat or drink between sunrise and sunset; fair enough. What we want to know is: How do Muslims do this in Scandinavian countries (say) where it can be daylight 24 hours a day at some times of the year? Do they just go by the clock in Mecca or something?

[society]

Interesting question James. I'm curious too.

[jake-the-peg]

This has been asked before, I'm afraid I can't find the link but I do recall that the answer is that they take the times of sunrise and sunset at Mecca and use those.

[jake-the-peg]

Here you go:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid =20060929034152AAasVYg

[WoWo]

I believe there is also a general cut off agreed locally, for example when I was in Eygypt this was 5pm even though it wasn't the time the sun set.

[kempie]

This may be the link jake was hoping to reference...

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/How-it-Works/Qu estion154407.html

[Ethel]

In A Pickle - of course there are Muslims living in Sweden, around 3.6% of the Swedish population are Muslim:

http://www.islamawareness.net/Europe/Sweden/sw eden.html