{"id":1648569,"date":"2016-01-10T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2016\/01\/10\/shukor-is-keeping-the-details-of-his\/"},"modified":"2016-01-10T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T13:11:09","slug":"shukor-is-keeping-the-details-of-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/10\/shukor-is-keeping-the-details-of-his\/","title":{"rendered":"Shukor is keeping the details of his&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Shukor is keeping the details of his plans fluid until he is actually on board ISS, a point with which Dr. Khaleel Mohammed, assistant professor of religion at San Diego State University, concurs. &#8220;In space,&#8221; Mohammed points out, &#8220;the ritual prayer might be offset for more of a prayer that is allowed when on jihad \u2026 for the lack of gravity and directional accuracy makes it legitimate to do as one sees fit. God does not take a person to task for that which is beyond his\/her ability to work with.&#8221;<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;Questions like these will continue as more and more religious astronauts travel into space. When is sunset in low Earth orbit if you&#8217;re experiencing a dozen sunrises and sunsets in every 24-hour period? When does Sabbath begin on the moon, where the sun sets once a month? When is the first sighting of the crescent moon if you&#8217;re on Mars? Religious councils of all faiths will have plenty to keep them busy for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2007\/09\/mecca-in-orbit\/<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Shukor is keeping the details of his plans fluid until he is actually on board ISS, a point with which Dr. Khaleel Mohammed, assistant professor of religion at San Diego State University, concurs. &#8220;In space,&#8221; Mohammed points out, &#8220;the ritual prayer might be offset for more of a prayer that is allowed when on jihad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[344,431,430,429],"views":739,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}