{"id":6617,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/fasts-and-non-believing-citizens\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:20:53","slug":"fasts-and-non-believing-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/fasts-and-non-believing-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasts And Non-Believing Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I  am an overseas Pakistani. In the month of Ramadan particularly in  Pakistan and in the Middle Eastern countries it is not allowed to anyone  (Muslim or Non-Muslim) to eat or drink anything during fasting time. If  policemen found anyone not respecting the fasting time he pushed him  behind bars. Why it is like this? Fasting is something between God and  His men. Fasting is one of the pillars of Islam like Namaz. They are so  many people who do not pray during the Namaz time. I ask from one of  Aalim about this he replied me that since it is a Muslim country so all  non Muslims have to respect the Muslim laws. If it is the case then  France and other non Muslim countries have every right to prohibit the  Muslim women not to observe veil because it is their country. Please  explain me in the light of Quran and Hadith. <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>We  believe that it is not the right of the government even to force the  Muslims to observe fast. However, the govenment can ask the minority to  respect the ritual and not eat openly. However, there must be ways for  the Non-Muslims to obtain food in their hotels and homes. Also it is not  justified to put the people behind the bar that seems to be a strict  measure. There could be other ways of putting people to the right track.  <\/p>\n<div>Analogy  between the prohibition of wearing veil and prohibition of forbidding  eating in open is not a very accurate one. By wearing a veil a Muslim  lady does not offend the customs and rites of that country. It is only  militant liberals who impose such restrictions which defy even their  expressed claims and ideals. However Muslims need to improve their  conduct in thier contries and not look to what other do in making their  policies.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-12<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6617\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I  am an overseas Pakistani. In the month of Ramadan particularly in  Pakistan and in the Middle Eastern countries it is not allowed to anyone  (Muslim or Non-Muslim) to eat or drink anything during fasting time. If  policemen found anyone not respecting the fasting time he pushed him  behind bars. Why it is like this? Fasting is something between God and  His men. Fasting is one of the pillars of Islam like Namaz. They are so  many people who do not pray during the Namaz time. I ask from one of  Aalim about this he replied me that since it is a Muslim country so all  non Muslims have to respect the Muslim laws. If it is the case then  France and other non Muslim countries have every right to prohibit the  Muslim women not to observe veil because it is their country. Please  explain me in the light of Quran and Hadith. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158],"tags":[1262,1600,1670],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-rituals","tag-fast","tag-fasting","tag-non-muslim"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fasts And Non-Believing Citizens - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/fasts-and-non-believing-citizens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fasts And Non-Believing Citizens - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am an overseas Pakistani. 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