In the Arctic of Canada .. Adha without sacrifice and sun is not absent

Israa Hussein - Canada

Despite the cold weather in Canada's Arctic, the summer temperature of up to seven degrees Celsius, the holiday atmosphere has given Muslims a social warmth.

Al-Jazeera Net shared the atmosphere of Arctic Muslims, where the number of Muslims in this city does not exceed one hundred Muslims, so they feel that they are one large family, amid the population of the city, which does not exceed 3400 people.

And in the mosque (the midnight sun) - and the reason for naming that the sun remains bright even at midnight hours in the summer in the city of Innovic, Northwest Province in Canada - we met Sheikh Saleh, according to the Prophet (Canadian Sudanese) imam and preacher of the mosque. He told us the Muslim community in the city was from various Arab countries but most were from Sudan.

According to the Prophet in his talk to the island Net that "the small number of Muslims made us feel that we are one family, so we meet in Ramadan and Eid in the mosque and spend a lot of our time with children in the mosque."

We bring meat
"Because of the cold weather there are no sheep here, so Muslims in the city are sending money to other places like our home countries to slaughter Eid sacrifices," he said. "For our daily living we bring halal meat from other Canadian provinces."

The imam of the mosque adds that this year's Eid prayer was attended by about fifty Muslims, because some of them traveled to other cities to spend Eid with their families in their home countries.

According to the Prophet, according to the Prophet, the Muslims of the city adopted the prayer according to the timing of Mecca based on the fatwa of the Canadian Council of Imams, because this city where the sun shines 24 hours for a month in summer. On the other hand, in the winter passes a whole month in which the sun never shines, the difficulty of setting a time for prayer made us adopt the timing of Mecca taking into account the time difference, according to the time of Canada.

They share the setting

Ola Nabout (Canadian Jordanian), who lives in the city of Innovic, says that Eid prayers were attended by a large number of men, but only four women, and nine children, because many Muslim families are outside the city for summer and Eid holidays.

She adds in her talk to Al Jazeera Net that on such occasions they participate in the preparation of food and organizing events for children to feel the atmosphere and joy of Eid, "Each of the women has prepared a traditional meal representing her country."

Amir Soliman, a Sudanese Canadian who has been living in the city of Inovik since 1994, tells Al Jazeera Net, "May God grant us this mosque in 2010, where it was built in another city and was transferred via the ferry to our city, due to the atmosphere of our region frozen, and the high construction cost in this City so the mosque was built in another city and then moved to Innovik. "

“The presence of the mosque has made us feel that we are one family,” said Suleiman.