Ramadan during coronavirus – with a virtual community
https://en.qantara.de/content/covid-19-pandemic-ramadan-during-coronavirus-with-a-virtual-communityMy wife and I were concerned whether we could find restaurants or food places open when we travelled in Morocco during Ramadan. During the entire month of Ramadan, Muslims are obligated to fast between dawn and sunset, with the exemption among people with a medical condition and the elderly.
Together with our travelling buddies, we reluctantly cancelled our tour before COVID-19 turned into a pandemic. We are supposed to leave on Thursday, and now this is just a thing of the past.
I am glad that most Muslims around the world understand the danger of the coronavirus COVID-19, and close all mosques, including the largest mosque in Africa, Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco, and the Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca. There will be no Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque.
Aiman Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany wrote that "Muslims prefer to pray together at the mosque but during the coronavirus crisis, they turn their living rooms into mosques within their families after they have broken the fast together with them."
However, there are fanatics maintain that fasting is mandatory until any harmful effects in connection with the virus are medically proven.
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