“You can do this and protect your community and your family.” “We need more communication,” said Khalid, who has already had her first vaccine dose and will get her second shot during Ramadan. Others questioned whether the vaccine violated fasting - until an imam weighed in. Still, Safiya Khalid, a city council member in Lewiston, about 30 miles north of Portland, sparked a lively conversation among fellow Muslims when she raised the issue on social media. Saudi Arabia’s highest cleric, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, and Islam’s top religious leader in Lebanon, Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Al Derian, have both said that getting the coronavirus vaccine does not constitute breaking one’s fast.

He and others seeking to reassure the faithful have the theological backing of top Islamic authorities. A vaccine clinic is being held at the mosque on Saturday. “There is a lot of bad information going around,” said Mohamed, who devoted his address during recent Friday prayers to promoting the vaccine. It doesn’t, said Mohamud Mohamed, imam of the Maine Muslim Community Center, who is working to assure Muslims at his Portland mosque that getting the vaccine is perfectly fine but finds that some people are clinging to misperceptions.

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