Fasting In High Places

Check out this fantastically silly fatwa from Dubai:

Muslims residing above the 80th floor in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa must delay their iftar meal during Ramadan by two to three minutes as they see the sunset later, according to the Dubai Islamic Affairs Department. Those residents should also start their daily fasting two minutes earlier on the grounds that dawn descends on them before those living on lower levels, the Department said in a Fatwa (edict).

This sounds more like a Dubai publicity fluff piece than respectable Islamic law-making. The people in the Dubai Islamic Affairs department must be really exhausting themselves in the heat. They should come have a break in our Lebanese mountains. They’ll enjoy the weather but they’ll have to add 10 more minutes to their fasting day; our mountains are pretty high you know..