From ancient times knowledge has been imparted in different ways at different times and in different places. Initially, it was more face to face and completely oral and then over a period of time initial classrooms started to take shape. These were places where a learned person or a master would talk about different things
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Why are Saudi Dates Always Wrong? According to Saudi Ummal-Qura calendar makers, Saudi dates were “calculated” by the following criteria: Umm al-Qura Calendar Before 1420 AH: For years up to the end of 1419 AH (16 April 1999) Saudi Arabia used a lunar calendar developed at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in
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Where Do We Differ and Why? Omar Afzal, Ph.D. The Qur’an specifically mentions a ‘visible crescent’ (Ahilla) as “Mawaqeet” for determining the beginning lunar Islamic month (2:189). All agree that the Hadith :”Do not fast unless you see it…” (Bukhari, etc.) is how the Messenger (S) put this Qur’anic injunction into practice. All
Moon’s Earliest Visibility Adopted from Monzur Ahmed “The computation of the appearance of the new crescent is a very long and difficult procedure.” Al-Biruni (973-1048 CE) Since ancient times, astronomers have tried to predict the likelihood of seeing the new moon by defining minimum visibility criteria. Monzur’s MoonCalc currently supports 13 such criteria.
Ummal-Qura Special Rules Saudi Arabia’s Ummal-Qura calendar doesn’t rely on a visual sighting of the crescent moon to fix the start of a new Islamic month. Since several decades Saudi Arabia and most neighboring Middle Eastern states, including Egypt, have employed a lunar calendar that systematically begins each Islamic calendar month one or two days
Standardizing the Islamic Lunar Calendar Recent attempts to standardize the Islamic lunar calendar (Washington Post: Aug. 11, 2006) is not something new. For the last fifty or so years several attempts have been made especially by Saudi calendar-makers and Muslim scientist like Dr. SK Abdali and Dr. M. Ilyas (Malaysia) without much success. Muslim holy
Why do we need a large number of witnesses from a Town? In old days, Muslim Qadis from Morocco to Yemen and Central Asia and Afghanistan to Bangladesh had to announce “official” dates. They determined the ‘reasonable’ number of witnesses to establish the beginning of Ramadan and for Eidain dates. Please keep in mind that
CFCO Alert Fixed Dates of Ramadan and Eidain 2006 ISNA Fiqh Council Decides to Ignore Qur’an and Sunnah ISNA Fiqh Council in 10 June 2006 meeting has unanimously decided to ignore the Qur’an and the Sunnah in order to impose Saudi dates on the Muslims in the US and Canada based on the New Moon in