Suck it up
In Pakistan and a number of other countries, it’s against the law to drink and eat in public (and “in public” means where anyone can see and report you, so I suspect it means at home too if you have windows). IBTimes reported last June:
The death toll from a weeklong heat wave in Karachi, Pakistan, has risen to 1,233, officials told the Associated Press Saturday. Some 65,000 people flooded the city’s hospitals to be treated for heat stroke, and about 1,900 patients were still receiving medical care as the country began to cool off.
Pakistan’s laws forbid people [to drink] and [eat] in public in daylight during Ramadan. As the heat wave has continued — and worsened — some Muslim religious leaders departed from tradition and encouraged followers to break the fast for health reasons.
Of course it’s always that hot in the Arabian Peninsula…
I believe they’ve had some extraordinary heat waves, though, in recent years. Which means the death tolls will rise, all the more so because wars have damaged the infrastructure in so many places.
Since the pious must go for more some 16 hours without a single glass of water, is it any wonder so many have died.
I’ve never understood why Ramadan is considered a fast. Once the sun goes down you could eat an entire cheese cake provided you finished it before the sun came up.
Purge and gorge, purge and gorge, purge and gorge…and at the end of the 30-odd days of ‘fasting’ you’re 20 pounds heavier.
It’s a display of mass insanity.
Not only are the days hotter this time of year, they are also longer. (Pakistan at about 30 N latitude, has 13 hour days this time of year, as opposed to 10 hour days in December).
Ramadan drifts because Mohammed (if he even existed) decided intercalary months were sinful or something, so it is sure to be at the worst possible time of year on a regular basis, like this year.