Which one is the Real Friday
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Peace Brothers and Sisters..
We calculate the Days as Fridays Saturdays etc Based on the International Date Line Drawn in th Pacific Ocean..
Now If we assume that at Prophets time the day was calculated as Friday in the Place where Prophet lived.. Now Consider a Person Living in Japan and One in Alaska.. They Pray on two different days.. One of them must be wrong in their Calculations on the day of Friday beacuse Prophet did not draw a line in the pacifc...
Now in my opinion the Islamic Date Line must be drawn Bisecting the Focal Point. Because there are no other Lines or Points on Globe Which are of any Significance as far as the religion of Islam is concerned..
The same is Applicable to Christians who follow Sundays. and jews following Sabbath on saturdays..
Regards
Shabeer -
Quran specifically mentions 12 months for a year... there is no mention of 7 days in a week as such...
The jum'ah or assembly in my view is something that can be held once a month or once a year (or AS NEEDED for the purpose of assembling people together for an occasion or for rememberance of God).
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Peace all,
The word "yaum" in al-qur'aan refers to a time period and not necessarily a 24 hour day.
In my understanding, there is no such thing as the Friday salat according to al-qur'aan. There is no basis of a seven day week from al-qur'aan. The proper name of the day Jum'ah was hijacked from the common noun "al-jum'ah" from 629 meaning "the assembly or gathering" and "yaum al-jum'ah" in 629 means "time of the assembly/gathering". Now Allah never leaves anything vague/unclear in al-qur'aan. Which time is the time of the assembly/gathering according to al-qur'aan then ? If we look closely we find that the only time we are called to gather/assemble in this world in al-qur'aan is for hajj
2227 And call out to the people with the hajj, they will come to you walking and on every transport, they will come from every deep enclosure.
In my understanding the "yaum al-jum'ah" in 629 refers to this time when the people are gathered for hajj and 629 refers to the call to the salat at this particular assembly/gathering for hajj and then the command to hasten towards remembring Allah and CEASE ALL SELLING makes total sense.
I would like to quote a relevant excerpt from brother Ayman's article "How did it come to this? (part 1)
"Another interesting common thread that runs through several of those idols is that they all had association with Friday. For example, Ashtoreth is connected to Friday. So is Venus, where the Romans named Friday after her as "dies veneris". The very name Friday is derived from the Norse goddess, Frigga. When the Germanic tribes invaded England they imposed their goddess upon the day meant to honor Venus. The day was called Frigedaeg, which gradually became "Friday". I don't think that it is a coincidence that Friday also became the "holy day" for sectarians who venerate Allat/Aphrodite and her black cube and Black Stone." - Ayman
Peace
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See this link
its useful to test the theory..http//www.timeticker.com
The Time in Marshall Islands While this post is being done is
438 am Saturday 16th December 2006The Time in Fiji Islands which lies in approximately the same longitude.. Is
438 am Sunday 17th December 2006Now The People of Marshall Islands have to wait another 24 hours for sunday. while People of Fiji Islands and NewZealand it is already Sunday..
So Which is the true Sunday.. -
Salam,
In Sweden my country ,friday is Fredag and it is from the godess Freija from the forn nordic mythology and she was the godess of fertility and it goes for everything in nature from flowers to human lives.
Peace sis Majidah
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Peace Sis Majidah,
In Sweden my country ,friday is Fredag and it is from the godess Freija from the forn nordic mythology and she was the godess of fertility and it goes for everything in nature from flowers to human lives.
Freija is the same goddess as the Roman Venus (Veneris or Venus day is Friday in Latin), the Greek Aphrodite and the Arab Allat (mentioned in Chapter 53 of the great reading). Thus it is no wonder that sectarians who idolize Allat's black cube and Black Stone also took the fertility goddess's day as their "Holy-day".
Peace,
Ayman
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Salam
Friday in Arabic is "Juma'ah" which literally means "Many People" or "Many Groups Of People" or "Crowd".
Have anyone ever noticed the similarity between the literal meanings of Sabbaoth and Juma'ah?
Sabbaoth (Hebrew) meanings "Hosts" / "Lots of People" usually referred to troops forming an army marching on...
Salam / Peace
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Salam.
Many people think that friday is a special day and they have invented ome weird stuff, like they don't cut hair or nails that day or work or they fast on every friday or not whatever, friday is just another day, prayer is saving you from Hell wheater it is performed on friday or wednesday.
Peace.
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It is not clear to me how jumah in arabic equates to Friday in english?
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Well, OK, now that we have established that there is no such thing as "Friday Prayer", can someone please tell me what exactly were the 7 days of the week called in Arabia at the time of the Prophet?
They had names for the months Ramadan/ Shaaban/ Muharram, etc...
Didn't they have names for the days of the week too?