Hot/"ramadan" Answer
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Salaam Ramon
Hereby some remarks related to your questions if I may.
A red moon is not everywhere at the same day in the whole hemisphere.
In the Northern countries there is even during mid-summer seldom a real red moon.
So it seems to be better to follow the place where the Koran was sent down as an objective criterium for the timing of the fasting.
The hottest period of the year in Arabia is related to the summersolstice - this might go together in that region with a red moon.
So the first full moon after the summersolstice on the Northern Hemisphere seems to be relevant, it can be known all over the word by moon-calendars.
In an allegorical way all the believers all over the world witness this -shahr ramadan-.
This is an objective issue not depending on a personal experience. Mind the millions of believers who would miss the red moon because of a clouded day.
So also the believers who do not see the red moon in person should fast the -shahr ramadan-.God did not bring any hardship in the religion - verse 2278.
Verse 2184 states that the believers who are able to fast but do not fast should provide for the food of a poor person - this seems to imply that only the believers who are old enough to have a regular income and to engage into legal transactions - which is giving away money or food- should join the fast.
So your children are not obliged to fast, it seems.Salaam and ramadan kareem.
truthseeker171Salam truthseeker171 and all
Thank you for your response.
I have started fasting the day after June 26 after witnessing the full moon already above the horizon. Guess I have to wait for 2011 to see the reddish hue, God willing.
Your observation on "witnessing" is worth researching into because as of the moment my understanding is one has to see the full moon to be obligated to fast. Of course one can fast any time by God's leave. As a matter of fact in 2007 I fasted for 60 days with the intention of quitting smoking. Alhamdulillah I did it.
I thank you also for your observation on who can fast being one who has regular income and to engage in legal transactions. I'd like to caution you on this because other people may not have a regular income and engage in legal transactions but they are able to seek provisions (from God) for themselves, their family and other people (by way of charity). So I believe the best description is that the one who fast is "capable of seeking provisions for himself and others." So this necessarily exclude young children (although again no one should bar them if they wish to fast.)
Peace and thanks!
O0 Ramon
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i am considering what you are saying and i do agree with alot of it ,still having some doubt about some of it though.
i need more proof.like the full moon it happens twleve times a year ,are we supposed to fast twelve times.
what make it in the summer,is it the name ,which i consider a bit weak to put my faith on as ramadan.
still not clear i think we need to look some more in the quran.my presumptions could be very wrong.still need brighter proofs.
like is it the summer solace is it clear in the quran.need to look some more. i need more time.
yousouf and the seven years ,i dont know. i always seem to be looking in the other direction.hope to come up with something i dont know. i need to reflect on the quran.
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Peace Mohamed,
i am considering what you are saying and i do agree with alot of it ,still having some doubt about some of it though.
i need more proof.like the full moon it happens twleve times a year ,are we supposed to fast twelve times.The full-moon after the summer solstice is the one that marks the fast.
what make it in the summer,is it the name ,which i consider a bit weak to put my faith on as ramadan.
still not clear i think we need to look some more in the quran.my presumptions could be very wrong.still need brighter proofs.
like is it the summer solace is it clear in the quran.need to look some more. i need more time.
yousouf and the seven years ,i dont know. i always seem to be looking in the other direction.hope to come up with something i dont know. i need to reflect on the quran.It is not a meaningless name. It is a clear description given by the god.
This is further confirmed by 1712
17.12. We have made the night and the day as two signs the sign of the night We have obscured, while the sign of the day we have made visible so that you may seek favors from your Lord, and so that you may know the number of years and the calculation, and We have explained all things in detail.
There is only one way to know the number of years using the night and day. The year has to be the time between solstices, either summer solstices or winter solstices. The meaning of "ramadan" clearly points to the summer solstice.
Peace,
Ayman
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i see what you mean,that would all be simple if ramadan is the month of heat.
this is a clear point.
is there any other proof,and what about ashhur hurum.
i think the same methode should be used to conclude both of the matters. they are both times .
like the ramadan and how it is known as a season and how is ashhur hurum known.
peace ayman it is great to hear from you. -
Peace
I did some research about the reading during these last days. I would like your opinions.
The word ?Ramadan? contains the root ?r m d = scorching heat? and the suffix ?a/n? which could mean, now, the beginning of the ?ramad? (scorching heat). In Arabic, the equivalent of the season is ?alfasl?that I understand as the limit between two seasons.
In the verse 2185, we read whoever of you can observe the full moon which marks the beginning of the scorching heat season, then make from this night your first night of fasting.Like the word ?ramadan?, in the word ?alquran? one can see the root ?q r a/ = to read? and the suffix ?a/n? which could mean now.
To read now, in the present ?
In the word ?alsalat? one can see the word ?sila = the link? and the suffix ?A/t? which could mean to move towards the link?I will be back to finish my post God willing
Bon app?tit et bonne f?te!
Peace and best wishes
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ayman i do owe you an apology you have put so much work into this,and i am merely speculating.
after going through the book"the natural republic "
i realized that in order to take any thing from the quran it must be clear ,no speculation and one must have good intentions.
i do realize that i am mistaken for taking the shahr to mean the no moon phase or the new moon as some call it.i was wrong and i admit it.
i could not find any where in the quran that states me to be right.
any ways that is how i am ,i always need time to agree after i go through things.
that is what made me what i am today ,a submitter to the truth that is quran and to refuse all stories put by generations of ignorance.
i found you to be very calm in your replies and always tolerant.
thank you again ,hope to learn more from you and "the natural republic " i want to congradulate the author too.
at first i did not know that people like myself existed.
i was trying to understand and speculate by my self and i did find many explanation to be exactly like my understanding of the quran.
thank you all for the effort
and may God bless you all.
thank you ayman.
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Is there anyone think about that
Why believers can't do "sawm" during voyage (2184) ??
Is there any difficulty for Islamic sawm (fasting) during voyage ?
Why believers forbidden to sex during "sawm" in public (masjit) instead of everywhere ?
Why there is no any mention about breaking "sawm" during war or propaganda in these hottest days ?
Can we get any relationship between day/night and propaganda-salat in day/take breath at night ?
Is "fasting" exact translation of the root of "Sad-Waw-Mim" ?
Regards
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Peace Ayman,
I have a problem
http//www.worldtravelguide.net/a/main/8f350f44-1a25-476a-9457-1c431cc20c8b/563a7dd0-d7f1-4216-8070-81dd4a9981d1/3e81277b-fe90-4d2d-a153-510e99409489.gif
As you can guess from the pic, the temperature here stays roughly the same throughout the year--but let's say, the hottest time in the year is around September (the driest is August). While the summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere is in December. And i have yet to see which full moon is the brightest/clearest throughout the year (for 2010, local news said it (the brightest full moon) happened in January 30, Saturday night. Those in the northern hemisphere might have witnessed it in Friday night, January 29). That is, if this "perigee" full moon. Oh, and i found this Lunar Perigee and Apogee calculator. Seems that this "Lunar Perigee" has its own schedule (i.e., nothing annual).
Plus these are some info that i found contradicting your "scorching/orange/brightest full moon" explanation on the first page. I'm no astronomer, just a layman on this matter, but at least i can read between the lines...
The Moon at Perigee and Apogee
http//www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/figures/sidebyside.jpg
How Bright the Moonlight?
When the Moon is full near perigee, you'd expect it to be brighter than a full Moon near apogee and it is lots brighter; let's figure out how much. Since the Moon shines by reflecting sunlight (not very well?it reflects only about 7% of the light that strikes it, comparable to a lump of coal) the following two factors determine the intensity of moonlight at the Earth
- The intensity of sunlight striking the Moon.
- distance reflected light travels from the Moon to the Earth.
Since the difference between the minimum and maximum distance of the Moon, 50345 km, is an insignificant fraction of the average distance from the Sun to the Earth and Moon, 149597870 km, the intensity of sunlight at the Moon can be considered constant and ignored in this calculation. (Sunlight intensity at the Moon does vary, of course, due to the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, but we'll ignore that smaller annual effect here since we're concentrating on lunar perigee and apogee.)
The intensity of light varies as the inverse square of the distance between a light source and the observer, so taking the ratio between the perigee and apogee distances in the photographs above as typical, the distance at apogee was 1.1363 times the perigee distance, and hence the Moon's intensity at perigee was the square of this quantity, 1.2912 times brighter?about 30%. Using the long-term extremes plotted in the drawing in the previous section yields only a slightly greater intensity difference a distance variation of 1.1413, with the Moon shining 1.3026 times brighter at perigee.
Like the variation in angular size, few people ever notice this substantial difference in the intensity of moonlight at perigee and apogee because there's no absolute reference against which to compare them. If you could flick a switch and move the Moon back and forth between apogee and perigee, the difference would be obvious, though not as evident as you might expect from a 30% change in illumination due to the logarithmic response of the human eye. Another document on this site discusses the differences between the linear response of photographic film and electronic sensors as opposed to the human eye, and how computer image processing techniques can allow producing images that approximate visual perception.
source http//www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/moon_ap_per.html
And some bits of info which suggest that your "orange moon" theory needs some checking
http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/78/Harvest_moon.jpg/300px-Harvest_moon.jpg
Times of appearance
The Harvest Moon comes soon before or soon after the autumnal equinox. It is simply the full moon closest to that equinox. About once every four years it occurs in October (in the northern hemisphere), depending on the cycles of the moon. Currently, the latest the Harvest Moon can occur is on October 7. Often, the Harvest Moon seems to be bigger or brighter or more colorful than other full moons. These effects are related to the seasonal tilt of the earth. The warm color of the moon shortly after it rises is caused by light from the moon passing through a greater amount of atmospheric particles than when the moon is overhead. The atmosphere scatters the bluish component of moonlight (which is really reflected white light from the sun), but allows the reddish component of the light to travel a straighter path to one's eyes. Hence all celestial bodies look reddish when they are low in the sky.
The apparent larger size is because the brain perceives a low-hanging moon to be larger than one that's high in the sky. This is known as a Moon Illusion and it can be seen with any full moon. It can also be seen with constellations; in other words, a constellation viewed low in the sky will appear bigger than when it is high in the sky.http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_moon
In short the hottest period of the year, the summer solstice, and the brightest/orange/scorching full moon, they don't mix so well -- i have trouble applying your proposition/theory into my situation. I was eager to put your timing theory into practice but now i'm just not sure.
Peace
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Peace San,
I have a problem
As you can guess from the pic, the temperature here stays roughly the same throughout the year--but let's say, the hottest time in the year is around September (the driest is August). While the summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere is in December. And i have yet to see which full moon is the brightest/clearest throughout the year (for 2010, local news said it (the brightest full moon) happened in January 30, Saturday night. Those in the northern hemisphere might have witnessed it in Friday night, January 29). That is, if this "perigee" full moon. Oh, and i found this Lunar Perigee and Apogee calculator. Seems that this "Lunar Perigee" has its own schedule (i.e., nothing annual).
Plus these are some info that i found contradicting your "scorching/orange/brightest full moon" explanation on the first page. I'm no astronomer, just a layman on this matter, but at least i can read between the lines...
source http//www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/moon_ap_per.html
And some bits of info which suggest that your "orange moon" theory needs some checking
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_moon
In short the hottest period of the year, the summer solstice, and the brightest/orange/scorching full moon, they don't mix so well -- i have trouble applying your proposition/theory into my situation. I was eager to put your timing theory into practice but now i'm just not sure.What you are saying only applies for the regions around the equator, which are going to have relatively constant hot temperatures (as you can see from your graph). The term "ramadan" from the point of view of a pre-quranic Arab has to do with heat and red color. The link that you posted from Wiki explains that what gives the full-moon a reddish color is its low altitude. It doesn't say what causes the low altitude. As you may know, the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the earth. So when the sun is high, the moon is low. Thus, the full-moon will always take the lowest path in the sky (and thus most reddish in color and this color lasting the longest) around the summer solstice (when the sun is at its highest).
Now as far as fasting, there are two ways to put this into practice
- Simply mark the fasting by the full-moon after the summer solstice in the southern or northern hemisphere depending on where you are (this is the approach I think is correct).
- This second approach was proposed by Truthseeker171. Since the event of the scorching full moon is associated with sending down the great reading, which happened in the northern hemisphere, then everyone fasts according to the timing of the northern hemisphere.
Keep in mind that even if you follow approach #2, this doesn't change when the restricted full-moons occur, which should be different between southern and northern hemispheres since the the wild life cycles will be different.
Peace,
Ayman
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Peace
I do not agree with the second approach suggested by truthseeker171 approved by Aymen, due following reasons,
If God picked up the hottest and longest possible duration for us to fast, and He says , it is good for you only if you knew, it means that a certain duration or hardship is required for benefit, but when the people down under try and synchronise with the Northerners, they end up doing it in the most comfortable time of the year for a shortest possible time, and probably that wouldn't serve the purpose which Allah envisaged.
When Allah has clearly used the word Shahida (witness) for orange Moon, He means us to do it with our orange moon which would come in our scorching heat , giving us Hot and longest day .
Witnessing orange moon simply means " when you get your orange moon do it" Not when they get it .
siki
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Peace
I do not agree with the second approach suggested by truthseeker171 approved by Aymen, due following reasons,
If God picked up the hottest and longest possible duration for us to fast, and He says , it is good for you only if you knew, it means that a certain duration or hardship is required for benefit, but when the people down under try and synchronise with the Northerners, they end up doing it in the most comfortable time of the year for a shortest possible time, and probably that wouldn't serve the purpose which Allah envisaged.
When Allah has clearly used the word Shahida (witness) for orange Moon, He means us to do it with our orange moon which would come in our scorching heat , giving us Hot and longest day .
Witnessing orange moon simply means " when you get your orange moon do it" Not when they get it .
siki
Dear All,
Please visit www.aastana.com and download a book "Truth about Saum" by Dr. Qamaruzzaman. You may, may find some answers there!!
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Dear All,
Please visit www.aastana.com and download a book "Truth about Saum" by Dr. Qamaruzzaman. You may, may find some answers there!!
Selam mubashir55. Thanks for the link. The article makes a lot of sense and is well written. I am not an arabic speaker to varify his claims and will be hoping others with good arabic read it and let us know what they think. It is worth starting a thread on this article alone. May Allah guide us.
Peace
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Selam mubashir55. Thanks for the link. The article makes a lot of sense and is well written. I am not an arabic speaker to varify his claims and will be hoping others with good arabic read it and let us know what they think. It is worth starting a thread on this article alone. May Allah guide us.
Peace
It started off well but the rest... confused
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It started off well but the rest... confused
Selam
Yes I agree with you here. Seemed near the end to go off on a tangent with some very strong claims. It is for this reason I have asked for some people with good knowledge of arabic to read and maybe someone could start a thread on it to see if the claims are true or not.
Peace
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As you may know, the sun and the moon are on opposite sides of the earth.
This is not true.
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This is not true.
Tell this to NASA
Anytime the Moon is full the Sun and the Moon are on opposite sides of the Earth. If one is high in the sky, as the Sun will be near the beginning of summer, the other must be low.
From
http//science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast14jun_1/
Peace,
Ayman
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Yes, ONLY on the full moon.
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Salam,
There can only be one month of Ramadhan and that it is the winter month in which the Quran was revealed.
If you are not in the northern hemisphere (or on earth) then you cannot "witness" that month and the fast is not required of these believers.
Peace Bro
I read your article regarding Qadr/jesus conception/Ramadhan, and my opinion is that your winter Ramadhan postulate is not all convincing. I think Ayman's scorching full moon is the way to go.
siki
