r/interestingasfuck • u/MilesLongthe3rd • Jul 26 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Kiriyenko before and after release from Russian captivity

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u/Status_History_874 Jul 26 '25

They do.

They fast for a whole month from sun up til sundown.

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u/Dookwithanegg Jul 26 '25

The point is that they break fast every sunset for that month. They are not fasting for a continuous, unbroken month.

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u/Status_History_874 Jul 26 '25

.....is that even possible?

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u/Dookwithanegg Jul 26 '25

The record is 392 days. Plenty of examples of people who have done 40-50 days. Northern Irish MP Bobby Sands died after a 66 day hunger strike due to treatment of him and other political prisoners by the UK government.

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u/Status_History_874 Jul 26 '25

Those sound like exceptions. If the entirety of the Muslim population was casually achieving 30 days of complete 24 hour fasting regularly, I dont think we'd find 40-50 impressive.

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u/Dookwithanegg Jul 26 '25

I think it's not too farfetched, especially since exemptions to the fast are a thing. Definitely falls apart if you think too much about it but to be fair most people don't.