How Is Excessive Hardship Or Difficulty Determined In Islam?
One more thing. If the answer to my question is that each person has to determine hardship on his own, then two issues come up. 1. The person always feels guilty that he didn’t put sufficient effort and his threshold for hardship is too low. 2. If hardship is defined by each person individually then how can we make a general rule that if in Norway a day is 20 hrs long and thus it is a hardship for everyone and fasting should be moved for the entire community to another month? Perhaps there are people who can handle 20 hr fasting with relative ease and want to perform fasting strictly in Ramadhan.