hehe..i live above the arctic circle and it’s just recent hat the mosque has consensus in this matter. before each Muslim did it their own way. now when the sun doesn’t shine anymore, or the sun shine 24 hours we use saudi arabia schedule.

a phd student in my university studied this and initiated this. but he is not an astronomist at all. in our way to reach this consensus, we came to Islamic scholars and groups. but we did not find the way out. instead, we were even told to move from the place.

if only this northern most mosque did not reach the present consensus, wouldn’t people think islam is not universal? as it couldn’t cover the need of the northern people.

it is true that a third way is sometimes needed. but cant u believe that some fanatic are just sooo hesitate to use this way and push so hard to do what quran and hadist literaly say?

sometimes i don’t care, sometimes it breaks my heart.

#Mulia, may be you need to keep in mind that most Muslim in Europe (students or expats) are of india, pakistan, bangladesh origins which belong to Madzhab (jurisprudence school of thought) Hanafi; or Arab origin of Madzhab maliki and Hanbali. Madzhab Hanafi followers mostly are more strict in taking innovative opinion than say, Shafi’is where most Indonesian belong to which much more flexible and open to conditional change. The fatwa of Imam Shafi’i in Egypt, for example, was a lot different (easier) than that of Shafi’i’s during his previous stay in Baghdad.

So, you neither need to care nor heartbroken. You just need to learn (this religious topic) more.