The Night of Decree is the 27th day of the 9th moon: Incontrovertible proof

[Raaajah]

guest to Ayisha

But you rejoice whenever someone twist the meaning of a verse and produce a devilish interpretation to it. You leave crystal clear evidence of it in your writing. The latest example being in the Dr. Qamar's Haqeeqat...thread ?Downloaded both and have read introduction only on fasting. I like this guy already, thanks mubashir55. will let you know how i get on with the rest.? Even a mentally retard person would show a better understanding than him. And you love him!!!

That was just classic bravo

[Ayisha]

2173 - We made them imams who guided in accordance with our commandments, and we taught them how to work righteousness, and how to observe the Contact Prayers (Salat) and the obligatory charity (Zakat). To us, they were devoted worshipers.

3224 - We appointed from among them imams who guided in accordance with our commandments, because they steadfastly persevered and attained certainty about our revelations.

7179 - We have committed to Hell multitudes of jinns and humans. They have minds with which they do not understand, eyes with which they do not see, and ears with which they do not hear. They are like animals; no, they are far worse - they are totally unaware.

was there a point to this post or was it just to remind us all you're still here not answering anything?

apart from the last line, that was your quote.

You seem to be at a lost whenever straight forward Quranic verses are quoted. You fail to grasp the meaning of it in the context of the discussion at hand. But you rejoice whenever someone twist the meaning of a verse and produce a devilish interpretation to it. You leave crystal clear evidence of it in your writing. The latest example being in the Dr. Qamar's Haqeeqat...thread ?Downloaded both and have read introduction only on fasting. I like this guy already, thanks mubashir55. will let you know how i get on with the rest.? Even a mentally retard person would show a better understanding than him. And you love him!!!

You seem to be at a loss that what you quoted had nothing to do with the discussion at hand. You fail to grasp the context of the verses you posted.

I am glad that I have got up your nose to the point you are now searching my posts to find something to twist and say your hadith on though. I had read the introduction and liked it, it doesnt mean I have read all of it and 'loved him' so that is another thing you have publicly twisted.

Now I will give you the the reasons (baby steps) for citing those verses

2173 tells us that we are to learn salat, zakat, and other religious rites from imam. And you and people like you would violate this verse and say we know better than the imams we will tell you how to perform salat and other religious rite. We have the master book ?root meaning dictionary? where we find all the explanation of the Quranic verses. Even though the Quran does not say that you will learn salat from the Quran, our root meaning dictionary override the Quran and says this is it.
Now I will attempt to teach you what you seem to be blind to.
21.73 is talking about Isaac and Jacob, not the imam in the local Mosque showing you how to pray. It is wise to check previous verse to see the context of the verse you are claiming means something totally different. The Imams are the prophets

With your approach you would have argued with Prophet Muhammad regarding salat and other rites if you were living at that time. You would have said to Prophet Muhammad that he was doing the salat wrong because the Quran does not tell us to do it this way. And your timing is wrong as well, you shall perform salat 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ....times a day.

And if you were living after prophet Muhammad died (within 30 years or so), you would have said the same thing to the follower of Prophet Muhammad who has learned to perform salat from Prophet Muhammad.
This shows you up so much.

This is the absurdity you and your friends are propagating here. You can never succeed.

Then why is it you and your friends that cannot ever answer a straight question?

Now lets look at your other verses you have given in your attempt to have some other book and hadith other than God's followed.

32.24, please refer to 32.23 and you will see it relates to the people of Moses and the prophets given to them.

7.179 tells about people like yourself, more misguided than cattle and totally unaware.

[Ayisha]

How would you know it is the ninth moon?

With this question he implying the following

1. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) did not know when the ninth moon was i.e. when the Ramadan is.
2. For certain, Prophet Muhammad knew when the Ramadan month was and the night of destiny
3. WayFinder wants us to believe that Prophet Muhammad did not know it and hence his follower did not know it. Otherwise why would he ask such a foolish question.
4. The reference point has been established by Prophet Muhammad which has been propagated to us via continuity and blessings of Allah
5. Only the wicked people will disregard the truth.

the great logical deductions again!

1. No it doesnt, It reinforces what has been written many times that you seem totally blind to or possibly do not have the ability to understand what is being said. Baby steps for you
   -the c a l e n d a r that was in use at the time of the prophet was not the islamic one used now

2. the prophet would definitely have known when it was and how to know it. He was the one that got the message when using the calendar at that time, not the one used now. the lunar calendar used now was brought into force after the prophets death

3. No that is not what wayfinder is saying nor is anyone else. Nor is it a foolish question considering all the new things that have been brought into Islam since the death of the prophet. What is foolish is to think that nothing has changed since his death, even when what you are looking at as proof wasnt there a few hundred years after his death. Think hundreds of years, not one or 2. Within days of Moses and his brother preaching God's message to his people they started worshipping a calf! D A Y S. Within weeks or months of the prophet's death there were more than 12 different sects! What is foolish is not even seeing this or considering the possibility and being lazy enough just to assume the ones that teach you know the right stuff and following that regardless because you feel comfortable in that cattle mode blindly following what you are told and not having to devote any brain time on it.

4. The reference point was established by Allah and followed by Muhammed, after his death they changed the calendar and it is not followed now. The continuity it by saying 'its ramadan now' as the ramadan period the prophet followed was ramadan then and for over 1300 years at a loss of 11 days a year between calendar then and calendar now is a quite out of sync with when God says it was and Muhammed followed.

Really I am trying to explain this in very simple terms, sorry if it's gone right over your head but if you used your brain more it would work better. It is like any other part of your body and needs exercise.

5. I absolutely 100% agree with you.

[Mazhar]

How would you know it is the ninth moon?

A person who is mentally Okay pesistently, and does not undergo spells of stupidity intermittently like some of our friends on this forum, always knows as to which is the month of the year he is living in. Only a lunatic getting back to senses may not be able to know immediately as to which is the month he is passing through.

[Mazhar]

1. No it doesnt, It reinforces what has been written many times that you seem totally blind to or possibly do not have the ability to understand what is being said. Baby steps for you
   -the c a l e n d a r that was in use at the time of the prophet was not the islamic one used now

2. the prophet would definitely have known when it was and how to know it. He was the one that got the message when using the calendar at that time, not the one used now. the lunar calendar used now was brought into force after the prophets death

And by the way who has told you these "baby steps" which are litterally a talk of a baby who thinks these are "gems"

[Mazhar]

4. The reference point was established by Allah and followed by Muhammed, after his death they changed the calendar and it is not followed now. The continuity it by saying 'its ramadan now' as the ramadan period the prophet followed was ramadan then and for over 1300 years at a loss of 11 days a year between calendar then and calendar now is a quite out of sync with when God says it was and Muhammed followed.

What specific change was brought in the calendar?

I could not make out anything of the red part. Will you please break it and make it simple.

[Ayisha]

A person who is mentally Okay pesistently, and does not undergo spells of stupidity intermittently like some of our friends on this forum, always knows as to which is the month of the year he is living in. Only a lunatic getting back to senses may not be able to know immediately as to which is the month he is passing through.

do you have daylight saving time in Pakistan? If it is 2am now and the same time tomorrow it is 1am is it really 2am or 1am?

This is September, if someone decided to change the calendar and decide there were not 365 in a year but 354 and as of today this new calendar would start as month one day one and call it January 1st, would it be January 1st that we can base the 9th month of September on?

[Ayisha]

And by the way who has told you these "baby steps" which are litterally a talk of a baby who thinks these are "gems"

could you clarify the question, I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Ayisha]

What specific change was brought in the calendar?

I could not make out anything of the red part. Will you please break it and make it simple.

8 pages and another 2 or is it 3 threads and you are still playing dumb? Cant make that any simpler and if you haven't got it by now then you never will, so stop trying.

[guest]

With this question he implying the following

1. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) did not know when the ninth moon was i.e. when the Ramadan is.
2. For certain, Prophet Muhammad knew when the Ramadan month was and the night of destiny
3. WayFinder wants us to believe that Prophet Muhammad did not know it and hence his follower did not know it. Otherwise why would he ask such a foolish question.
4. The reference point has been established by Prophet Muhammad which has been propagated to us via continuity and blessings of Allah
5. Only the wicked people will disregard the truth.

the great logical deductions again!

The true color of your buddy (WayFinder) has been exposed and he realizes it and went into hiding. And you being what you are grabbing on to his falsehood and trying to mislead other by claiming FALSEHOOD = TRUTH. You will not succeed!!

1. No it doesnt, It reinforces what has been written many times that you seem totally blind to or possibly do not have the ability to understand what is being said. Baby steps for you
   -the c a l e n d a r that was in use at the time of the prophet was not the islamic one used now

And you know this because you saw a vision when you and your buddy were practicing voodooism on a full moon night in the summer solstice. And this is your evidence of truth. How awful!!!!!

We use the calendar system that has been established by Prophet Muhammad. It has been preserved for us (believer).

You seem to think that if I start a new calendar today, my fasting month would be inconsistent from that of Prophet Muhammad. This is the thinking of ignorant, immature and wicked people. I will demonstrate this via an example which I posted in the Hot Ramadan debate thread (Re Hot/"ramadan" Answer ? Reply #2087 on October 01, 2009, 042507 PM ?).

As usual, Ayman doesn?t know what he is talking about. He turns a simple matter into a complex and complicated thing. This is his nature. I will illustrate Ayman?s ill thinking using a simple concept that uses Prophet Muhammad as the reference point. Other prophets can be used just as well.

Arbitrary Months 1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9---10---11---12
(Pre Quranic)

Prophet Muhammad 1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9---10---11---12
(Receive revelation)

Prophet Muhammad 1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9---10---11---12
(Defines Calendar)

Prophet Muhammad has the authority to define the arbitrary pre-Quranic months into Islamic months/calendar. Thus, Prophet Muhammad establishes the Islamic calendar with 9 as the month of Ramadan because that?s when he received the revelation from the God. Henceforth, by definition the calendar cannot be called arbitrary anymore. Thus, the Islamic calendar has been canonized by Prophet Muhammad.

Now, guest wants to establish an Islamic calendar with new initial point (mark or month 1)

Islamic Calendar 10---11---12---1---2---3---4---5---6----7----8----9
Guest Calendar 1---2----3----4---5---6---7---8---9---10---11---12

As a God fearing person, I would have to maintain synch with Prophet Muhammad defined month of Ramadan. Therefore, in Guest calendar, Ramadan is performed in the month 12. This way I have a different calendar, yet fasting in the same physical timeframe, even though Guest month is 12 and Islamic month is 9. Similarly, I can move the initial point to any point in time without compromising the calendar defined by Prophet Muhammad.

This is so simple, yet, Ayman doesn?t get it.

223 - Among the people, there are those who argue about GOD without knowledge, and follow every rebellious devil.

224 - It is decreed that anyone who allies himself with him, he will mislead him and guide him to the agony of Hell.

Ayisha, since your faulty logic on calendar has been exposed, I suggest you go into hiding with WayFinder and kick each other?s hiney.

3. No that is not what wayfinder is saying nor is anyone else. Nor is it a foolish question considering all the new things that have been brought into Islam since the death of the prophet. What is foolish is to think that nothing has changed since his death, even when what you are looking at as proof wasnt there a few hundred years after his death. Think hundreds of years, not one or 2. Within days of Moses and his brother preaching God's message to his people they started worshipping a calf! D A Y S. Within weeks or months of the prophet's death there were more than 12 different sects! What is foolish is not even seeing this or considering the possibility and being lazy enough just to assume the ones that teach you know the right stuff and following that regardless because you feel comfortable in that cattle mode blindly following what you are told and not having to devote any brain time on it.

This is the straw that breaks the camel's back. You need to get your head examined!

You have the nerve to equate Moses?s people with believers who fought with Prophet Muhammad with their life and money in the cause of Allah. You are truly a lost soul. Reflect on the following verse

7179 - We have committed to Hell multitudes of jinns and humans. They have minds with which they do not understand, eyes with which they do not see, and ears with which they do not hear. They are like animals; no, they are far worse - they are totally unaware.

[hope4]

Selam

I think a point has been missed here. The Quran's description of Ramadan does not rely on any calander but naturally occuring phenomena. This meaning that at any point if an error is made in the calander system for any reason the actual timming of Ramadan could easily be determined by Allah's natural laws which we could easily witness around us. This way no one could lead no one else astray as the phenomena does not require mans input. Anyways, this is my understanding of the situation, Allah has given us free will to choose.

May Allah's guidance be with us.

Peace

[Ayisha]

Selam

I think a point has been missed here. The Quran's description of Ramadan does not rely on any calander but naturally occuring phenomena. This meaning that at any point if an error is made in the calander system for any reason the actual timming of Ramadan could easily be determined by Allah's natural laws which we could easily witness around us. This way no one could lead no one else astray as the phenomena does not require mans input. Anyways, this is my understanding of the situation, Allah has given us free will to choose.

May Allah's guidance be with us.

Peace

yes that is the point that is trying to be put across. As the calendar has changed there must be some way to know using the signs that Allah gave us and not using a man made calendar system at all, hence how would you know its ramadan if you woke up on a desert island.

[Ayisha]

And you know this because you saw a vision when you and your buddy were practicing voodooism on a full moon night in the summer solstice. And this is your evidence of truth. How awful!!!!!
you are insane.

We use the calendar system that has been established by Prophet Muhammad. It has been preserved for us (believer).
and dumb

You seem to think that if I start a new calendar today, my fasting month would be inconsistent from that of Prophet Muhammad. This is the thinking of ignorant, immature and wicked people. I will demonstrate this via an example which I posted in the Hot Ramadan debate thread (Re Hot/"ramadan" Answer ? Reply #2087 on October 01, 2009, 042507 PM ?).

As usual, Ayman doesn?t know what he is talking about. He turns a simple matter into a complex and complicated thing. This is his nature. I will illustrate Ayman?s ill thinking using a simple concept that uses Prophet Muhammad as the reference point. Other prophets can be used just as well.

Arbitrary Months 1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9---10---11---12
(Pre Quranic)

Prophet Muhammad 1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9---10---11---12
(Receive revelation)

Prophet Muhammad 1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9---10---11---12
(Defines Calendar)

Prophet Muhammad has the authority to define the arbitrary pre-Quranic months into Islamic months/calendar. Thus, Prophet Muhammad establishes the Islamic calendar with 9 as the month of Ramadan because that?s when he received the revelation from the God. Henceforth, by definition the calendar cannot be called arbitrary anymore. Thus, the Islamic calendar has been canonized by Prophet Muhammad.

Now, guest wants to establish an Islamic calendar with new initial point (mark or month 1)

Islamic Calendar 10---11---12---1---2---3---4---5---6----7----8----9
Guest Calendar 1---2----3----4---5---6---7---8---9---10---11---12

As a God fearing person, I would have to maintain synch with Prophet Muhammad defined month of Ramadan. Therefore, in Guest calendar, Ramadan is performed in the month 12. This way I have a different calendar, yet fasting in the same physical timeframe, even though Guest month is 12 and Islamic month is 9. Similarly, I can move the initial point to any point in time without compromising the calendar defined by Prophet Muhammad.

This is so simple, yet, Ayman doesn?t get it.

223 - Among the people, there are those who argue about GOD without knowledge, and follow every rebellious devil.

224 - It is decreed that anyone who allies himself with him, he will mislead him and guide him to the agony of Hell.

Ayisha, since your faulty logic on calendar has been exposed, I suggest you go into hiding with WayFinder and kick each other?s hiney.
This is the straw that breaks the camel's back. You need to get your head examined!

You have the nerve to equate Moses?s people with believers who fought with Prophet Muhammad with their life and money in the cause of Allah. You are truly a lost soul. Reflect on the following verse

7179 - We have committed to Hell multitudes of jinns and humans. They have minds with which they do not understand, eyes with which they do not see, and ears with which they do not hear. They are like animals; no, they are far worse - they are totally unaware.

with written proof of both

[guest]

Selam

I think a point has been missed here. The Quran's description of Ramadan does not rely on any calander but naturally occuring phenomena. This meaning that at any point if an error is made in the calander system for any reason the actual timming of Ramadan could easily be determined by Allah's natural laws which we could easily witness around us. This way no one could lead no one else astray as the phenomena does not require mans input. Anyways, this is my understanding of the situation, Allah has given us free will to choose.

May Allah's guidance be with us.

Peace

Peace

Your statement is very subjective. It does not add any value unless you say my system (my way) give me an error of plus minus 0.00000000000000001 and here is the proof of it. In reality, the system you and Ayman are advocating makes an error of more than 30 days. If you invented new system then please give the detail of that system.

[WayFinder]

You are waaaay tooo smart for me... giveup

I think you should feel really good now... rotfl

[hope4]

Peace

Your statement is very subjective. It does not add any value unless you say my system (my way) give me an error of plus minus 0.00000000000000001 and here is the proof of it. In reality, the system you and Ayman are advocating makes an error of more than 30 days. If you invented new system then please give the detail of that system.

Peace Guest

Hope you are well. Just to reply to the above I would like to say that the lunar calendar is out of sink with all natural systems, e.g. we could not use it to determine the seasons. What you have stated is not proof at all. How did you workout the error of plus/minus 10^-16? I think I have missed the point ???

In short no matter what calendar we use its only purpose is to serve as organising our lives. The Quran does not mention no calendar in use today but rather markers that are naturally occuring in which we can find a reference point inorder to count. The Islamic lunar calander only came into being around 638 A.D. The question you must therefore ask is, what calander was in use before then, considering our prophets death occured around 632 A.D.?

Peace

[guest]

Peace Guest

Hope you are well. Just to reply to the above I would like to say that the lunar calendar is out of sink with all natural systems, e.g. we could not use it to determine the seasons. What you have stated is not proof at all. How did you workout the error of plus/minus 10^-16? I think I have missed the point ???

In short no matter what calendar we use its only purpose is to serve as organising our lives. The Quran does not mention no calendar in use today but rather markers that are naturally occuring in which we can find a reference point inorder to count. The Islamic lunar calander only came into being around 638 A.D. The question you must therefore ask is, what calander was in use before then, considering our prophets death occured around 632 A.D.?

Peace

Peace

Lunar calendar is not out of sync with all natural systems. Lunar cycle itself is a natural system (Allah?s system). And what is season got to do with our deen. Nothing!

The lunar cycle, solar cycle and seasons are independent natural phenomenon. None of them are in synch with each other. If you use lunar cycle to stay in synch with the seasons, you will have to use a correction factor, say X. If you use solar cycle to stay in synch with the seasons, you will have to use a correction factor as well, say Y. The value of X may be larger than the value Y, the fact is a correction is required.

You can track the seasons with lunar cycle by applying the correction X. Likewise you can track the seasons with solar system by applying the correction factor Y. The key point is none of them are naturally in synch with the seasons. And this has nothing to do with religion.

You have talked about a natural marker. How accurately can you get back to the marker from year to year? You seem to imply the error is zero. I made the zero to a very small number. How do you assure yourself that your starting point is the same every year and not off by say 30 days.

[Ayisha]

Peace

Lunar calendar is not out of sync with all natural systems. Lunar cycle itself is a natural system (Allah?s system). And what is season got to do with our deen. Nothing!
???

The lunar cycle, solar cycle and seasons are independent natural phenomenon. None of them are in synch with each other. If you use lunar cycle to stay in synch with the seasons, you will have to use a correction factor, say X. If you use solar cycle to stay in synch with the seasons, you will have to use a correction factor as well, say Y. The value of X may be larger than the value Y, the fact is a correction is required.

The lunar cycle, the solar cycle and the seasons are from Allah, not a phenomenon. They are prefectly in sync with each other. The number of months in a year is 12 according to Allah. The moons orbit around the earth is once every 29.53 days, so x 12 = 354.36 in one year if the islamic calendar uses 12 lunar cycles. The Earth and its orbiting moon orbit the sun once every 365.25 days. The Islamic man made calendar has given the 12 months 30 (or 29) days each, and the total in a year is 354 days or sometimes 355 days, so this is out of sync with the solar calendar which give the seasons and the vegetation of those seasons by 11 days a year. The islamic calendar used now is not a lunar calendar based on any astronomical calculations as a lunar calendar is.

The calendar you are refering to with your x and y values is to bring it into sync. The original calendar used when Muhammed was here was a lunisolar calendar and every 3 years there was an intercalary month or a leap month added. This was repeated through all the months over the years so in the leap year you have Muarram to Dh al-ajja + Dh al-ajja. the next leap year you have 2 months of Muarram then complete to Dh al-ajja, the next leap year you have Muarram and 2 months of afar then complete the year. With this you are postponing some forbidden months till the following month, cant you see that? So some leap years would even have 2 months of 'Ramadan' too. This obviously was what Allah referred to in verse 9.37 regarding postponing forbidden months.The Islamic calendar used now by most of the Muslim world was brought in after Muhammeds death

You can track the seasons with lunar cycle by applying the correction X. Likewise you can track the seasons with solar system by applying the correction factor Y. The key point is none of them are naturally in synch with the seasons. And this has nothing to do with religion.
the solar calendar is in sync with the seasons and adding leap day every 4 years brings it in sync. This has everything to do with Allah and it is in Quran that you were given sun and moon to measure time and count the years and that you were given stars to guide you.

You have talked about a natural marker. How accurately can you get back to the marker from year to year? You seem to imply the error is zero. I made the zero to a very small number. How do you assure yourself that your starting point is the same every year and not off by say 30 days.

you cannot make zero to a small number. You made the variation to a small number but you were not basing it on anything and took numbers out of your head. As I have said above the calendar used was off by 30 days and thats why there was a month added every 3 years because the Lunar cycle is out of sync with the solar one. The natural marker would be the sun and the seasons, the earth travelling round the sun, 365.25 days a year from one spring to the next spring etc. That is a marker. The moon travels round the earth but the earth AND its moon both travel around the sun, no sun = no life

[hope4]

Peace

Lunar calendar is not out of sync with all natural systems. Lunar cycle itself is a natural system (Allah?s system). And what is season got to do with our deen. Nothing!

The lunar cycle, solar cycle and seasons are independent natural phenomenon. None of them are in synch with each other. If you use lunar cycle to stay in synch with the seasons, you will have to use a correction factor, say X. If you use solar cycle to stay in synch with the seasons, you will have to use a correction factor as well, say Y. The value of X may be larger than the value Y, the fact is a correction is required.

You can track the seasons with lunar cycle by applying the correction X. Likewise you can track the seasons with solar system by applying the correction factor Y. The key point is none of them are naturally in synch with the seasons. And this has nothing to do with religion.

You have talked about a natural marker. How accurately can you get back to the marker from year to year? You seem to imply the error is zero. I made the zero to a very small number. How do you assure yourself that your starting point is the same every year and not off by say 30 days.

Selam guest

The sighting of the starting point is described here

Anytime the moon is full, the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the earth. Thus, if one is high in the sky, as the sun is around the summer solstice, the moon must be low. Of course, this is 100% consistent. So full moons that occur around the summer solstice are special because they follow the lowest path across the sky of all of the year's full moons.

The "scorching" aspect of the full moon occurs due to the same phenomenon that gives sunsets their red color. It is the scattering of light in the earth's dusty atmosphere close to the horizon. Thus, a full-moon that hangs lower across the horizon will appear and stay redder than one that quickly climbs to a higher altitude. Also, for some reason, our brains are wired to perceive such low hanging red full moons as much larger than normal. In addition, the red full-moon after the summer solstice is special because it occurs when the weather is starting to get very hot. Thus, the two aspects of "scorching" (the red color and heat) are associated with this particular full-moon.

Because of its color and appearance being associated with the hotter time of the year many ancient cultures had names for the full moon after the summer solstice such as hot moon, blood moon, red moon, etc. In a flat desert with its dusty atmosphere and very hot weather, this "scorching full moon" would have appeared very dramatic to the pre-quranic Arabs.

This is all easily verifiable by observing the full moon after the summer solstice when it appears. This is one of the easiest to witness attention-grabbing sights in the night sky.

It happens once a year every year. What a wonderful marker.

Peace

[guest]

Selam guest

The sighting of the starting point is described here

Anytime the moon is full, the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the earth. Thus, if one is high in the sky, as the sun is around the summer solstice, the moon must be low. Of course, this is 100% consistent. So full moons that occur around the summer solstice are special because they follow the lowest path across the sky of all of the year's full moons.

The "scorching" aspect of the full moon occurs due to the same phenomenon that gives sunsets their red color. It is the scattering of light in the earth's dusty atmosphere close to the horizon. Thus, a full-moon that hangs lower across the horizon will appear and stay redder than one that quickly climbs to a higher altitude. Also, for some reason, our brains are wired to perceive such low hanging red full moons as much larger than normal. In addition, the red full-moon after the summer solstice is special because it occurs when the weather is starting to get very hot. Thus, the two aspects of "scorching" (the red color and heat) are associated with this particular full-moon.

Because of its color and appearance being associated with the hotter time of the year many ancient cultures had names for the full moon after the summer solstice such as hot moon, blood moon, red moon, etc. In a flat desert with its dusty atmosphere and very hot weather, this "scorching full moon" would have appeared very dramatic to the pre-quranic Arabs.

This is all easily verifiable by observing the full moon after the summer solstice when it appears. This is one of the easiest to witness attention-grabbing sights in the night sky.

It happens once a year every year. What a wonderful marker.

Peace

Peace

How do you determine the full moon? What is the criterion?

How do you know that full moon you are looking at is a FULL MOON not a day away from the actual full moon? It is not an on/off situation. Run a test with humans and you will know what I mean. This is the first error!

The second error you will make is with full moon that occurs few days prior to summer solstice vs. the full moon after the summer solstice. There is your 30 day error. Just run an impartial test to determine the fact for yourself.

The third error will be the 13th moon. Somehow you have to make it disappear.

All these issues were discussed in the hot Ramadan thread. There is no need to rewrite them again in this thread.