Islamic Preacher Claims Salah’s Injury Is God’s Punishment For Breaking Ramadan Fast

Mubarak al-Bathali, a Kuwaiti Islamic preacher, has claimed that Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah’s shoulder injury in the Champions League final was a punishment from God for the player breaking his Ramadan fast before the match.
The striker had lasted just half an hour of Liverpool’s 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid in Kiev after being forced off with a suspected dislocated shoulder sustained during a tussle with Sergio Ramos.
However, Spanish football site, AS, reports that al-Bathali claimed that Salah sinned by breaking his fast for the match, adding that the Egyptian was poorly advised and that he will “unfortunately bear the burden” for it.
Initially, it was reported that Salah was going to continue fasting in the build-up to the Champions League final.

However, Liverpool’s physiotherapist Rubén Pons later confirmed that the Egyptian would break fasting temporarily for the two days prior to the final.
Muslims are generally allowed to stopping fasting if they are on long journeys.
However, al-Bathali said that Salah’s travel arrangements were “not a legitimate excuse” to cease fasting, and said God had punished him as a result.

Tweeting in Arabic, al-Bathali wrote: “God punished him,” adding: “Unfortunately, [he will] bear the burden.”

“Do not think the Muslim believes that life is managed by reason and effort, but life is the hand of God comes to whom he will, whether hard or not diligent,” the preacher said.
The cleric then wrote: “Perhaps [the injury] is good for you.”