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Islam does excuse people from "Fasting" in situations like when you are travelling, when you are sick etc
My question was broader than that. What if there is a permanent space station or planetary base? Surely the exemptions you mention cannot be permanent in such a case, therefore modification of the rules governing such religious practices must be possible, if Islam is a religion for all times to come. Or should we limit Islam to Earth and that too excluding the areas beyond the Arctic and Antarctic Circles?
That is the basic question to answer: If Islam is for all times to come, can it remain unchanging and unyielding? Yes, the basic must remain the same, but most, if not all, implementations of those basics must adapt to changing times across centuries and millennia. Indeed, if we look back at history, that already has happened, whether we accept it or not, not just in Islam, but across all major religions.
Allah doesn't "define" roles per se.
But isn't it the contention mentioned here many times that Allah has indeed ordained the roles as scholars in centuries gone by have established, such as explained in BZ?
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