@dexterhaggard I am happy to interpret fasting as not eating between after dinner and breakfast.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard @John_Allman @Predicati0n @anjemchoudary Are there any Muslims in the Arctic?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard Breakfast is derived from two words "break" and "fast".
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard @John_Allman @anjemchoudary I am sure Allah will forgive Muslims in the Arctic if they eat when it is light for 6 months.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard http://t.co/eNPPFOGCa6 shows that the Koran has left it to our interpretation what fasting means.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard I have proposed that the non-Muslim judiciary as it is currently constituted be left to interpret n apply Koranic principles.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard @John_Allman @anjemchoudary The Koran has left it to us to interpret for ourselves what fasting really means.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard If the instructions are not specific then it leaves room for manoeuvre.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard Of course, there will be Muslims who will want to do things their way but we can ignore them, I think.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard Anyway, you can always fast after or before Ramadan if for some reason you cannot do it during.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard Secular Koranism is the Koran as interpreted by me, and I am prepared to be flexible.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard In that case you can change Ramadan to a month when there is equal night and day wherever you are in the world.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard 2:185: The month of Ramazan is that in which the Quran was revealed" - we don't really know when this was so we can choose.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard http://t.co/c0JVRnq4OC is not specific at all!
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard http://t.co/5sglUXhEmn suggests the precise month is not established at all! So we can pick and choose a convenient month.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard To not be specific is not the same as being fraudulent. Other religions also impose fasting, so what is the big deal?
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard We don't know which month it was, so we can choose a month when night and day is roughly equal.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard I think Allah left DELIBERATELY vague waiting for me to suggest a neat way out of the problem on 12 January 2015.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard Day and night are roughly equal in 21-22 September. https://t.co/KvK9ZtdjhU I have a better idea: fast a month before Xmas.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard The idea of fasting is similar to Lent - to deprive ourselves of something in the name of sacrifice and remembrance of God.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard It doesn't, but if the Koran does not say in which month it was revealed, then we might as well make our own arrangements.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard So what do you think of my pre-Xmas fast idea? It is the best time to fast cos the days are short too.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard Muslims in the Southern hemisphere will have to make their own arrangements.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard In the Southern hemisphere the equinox will be around Easter time. Muslims there can have their Ramadan then.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard As for Equatorial Muslims, where the length of night and day is the same, they can stick to their old rules.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard You may find my idea of changing the place of pilgrimage from Mecca to other places of interest too. http://t.co/HVMdNgVsFk
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
@dexterhaggard I am so glad I had this exchange with you and demonstrated that Secular Koranism is different from their kind of Islam.
— Claire Khaw (@ntfem) January 12, 2015
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