Happy Ramadan and welcome to 'Those Podding Muslims!', a podcast brought to you by the charity New Horizons in British Islam (www.nhorizons.org/)

Today Manish is in discussion with an imam-come-astronomer! Dr Usama Hasan is a fellow of the British Astronomical Society and a few years ago he declared a fatwa to reduce fasting times for British Muslims during the holy month of Ramadan.

In this episode we delve into why, what consequences extremely long fasting days have and what Islam says about fasting.

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