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Here’s Why Living At The Top Of The Burj Khalifa Means You Would Break Your Fast 3 Minutes Later
Would you extend your fast by 3 minutes? At what cost?
Perhaps you would, for the tallest building in the world!
Living at the Burj Khalifa means you would break your fast a few minutes later, depending on which floor you live
The reason being quite simple…the visibility of the sun.
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The Burj Khalifa in Dubai is so tall that people living on the top floors must wait three minutes longer to break their Ramadan fast than those on the ground floor.
This is because they experience sunset later.
Mohammed al-Qubaisi, Dubai’s top cleric once said… pic.twitter.com/RoOEEQt5LB
— Richard Ker (@richardker) April 4, 2023
According to Dubai cleric Mohammed al-Qubaisi, residents living above the 80th floor have to wait 2 additional minutes to break their fast
In the statement made back in 2011, he also added that those living above the 150th floor must wait three extra minutes.
The reason? These floors can still see the sun for longer, and fasting during the Holy Month is expected to last until Sunset, whenever that occurs for you! Although people are coming up with loopholes on social media!
I will go 149th floor to break my fast, and go up again. But, it’s taking three minutes also to wait for the elevator 🤣
— Shuri (@Shuri__________) April 5, 2023
The fatwa has Scientific back up too- just ask famed Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson!
He mentioned that on the tallest building in the world, “High-floor dwellers see beyond the ground-level horizon, farther along Earth’s curvature.”
So there you have it, a small delay for the best view!
During Ramadan, daytime fasting for Muslims ends at sunset. But for Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, the Sun sets four minutes later at the top than at the bottom. High-floor dwellers see beyond the ground-level horizon, farther along Earth’s curvature. pic.twitter.com/nQFjtNObJE
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) May 4, 2019
The longest fasting hours in the world for 2023 is 18 hours, which happens in Nuuk, Greenland
The shortest fasting period is 12 hours, and it happens in Christchurch, New Zealand.
In the UAE, we fast for 14 hours a day.
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