Does God really want us to use the moon as a tool to decide what will be "Holy months" and times of prayer?
2006-09-06 01:47:42 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
P.S. Easter should be declared a specific date, just like Christmas. ( my opinion )
2006-09-06 01:55:25 · update #1
The universe is a puzzle. We are all connected to each other. What I'm sure is that when we need to pray we don't have to see the moon's position or whatever people say. God listens to you when you think about your needs.
2006-09-06 01:52:49 · answer #1 · answered by nenena 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Muslim prayer times are not decided by the lunar calendar but the natural cycle of the times of day.
The answer to your question is that the lunar calendar is used in Islam (it cannot be "abolished"), but Christianity should abolish the "Trinity" (a "three headed monster" as the bishop of Carthage called it when it was invented as a doctrine) and worship God instead of a man called Jesus.
What is your problem with using a lunar calendar? The Jews, astrologers and many other groups use it. It is just as useful as the solar calendar used today and by the sun worshiping ancient Egyptians and Romans (SUNday?).
The lunar and solar calendar are both used by Muslims. You may be surprised to learn that the lunar calendar is historically more accurate. There were riots in Europe when the 12 lost days in the Julian calendar were made up during the switch to the Gregorian calendar correction.
Measuring time with the phases of the moon is something that everyone can do (new moon to full moon is two weeks) and this has not change for however many thousands of years people have had calendars. Therefore the months in a lunar calendar have always been accurate.
2006-09-06 02:20:15 · answer #2 · answered by Nothing to say? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lunar calendar is useful for mainly agrarian societies. The Solar calendar is useful for more technologically advanced societies. China, for example, uses both calendars. The Lunar calendar is used to determine the dates for the annual Spring Festival, which may fall anywhere between January and February. Calendars are useful for humans in various situations.
The birth of Christ used to be celebrated in April, then became Christmas day to line up the Christian and Lunar calendars (and the ancient pagan festival of the dark before the new year). All dates are arbitrary. I doubt that a god for whom a day is as a thousand years for us gives a darn about solar or lunar calendars (both sun and moon were creations, after all, and pronounced good).
If we were really to abolish the Lunar calendar, we should go ahead and abolish the week as having 7 days (which is based on the Lunar system where 4x7=28 days of the lunar cycle). Maybe we need a Solar week of 8 days or 10 days or 5 days?
2006-09-06 02:13:35 · answer #3 · answered by Pandak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people are unaware of the perfect correlation between the Julian and the lunar calendar: 235 lunar months correspond exactly to 19 Julian years of 365.25 days. Then length of our year of 365 days is not perfect because it has to be rectified every four years (with a leap year): With the lunar calendar, the same phenomena occur every 19 years (Julian). This is the Metonic cycle, named after the Greek astronomer Meton, who discovered this exact correlation between solar and lunar time in the Fifth century B.C.
2006-09-06 02:50:21 · answer #4 · answered by fadil z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the way how does that affect you as a person?. Does God really approved the use of gregorian calendar and watches /clocks?. Goodness of a man is his leaving what does not concern him. the holy events that happened in the months makes the months holy, theres nothing anybody can do about it.
Muslims do not worship moon but the creator of the moon.
2006-09-06 02:34:46 · answer #5 · answered by shaawanat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hey... what is happening in here. Don`t be so egoistic and hesitate the other. I`m Muslim and I don`t want to underestimating the Cristian or the other. We shoul live i peace.
The lunar moon, is actually to maintain the global agreement about the time expectation. When does the Ramadhan begin is one of the example. We can not say, the Sun calendar is the best. Both are good
2006-09-06 01:55:31 · answer #6 · answered by Double Helix 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
most religions have some aspect based on the moon, eg Christians Easter, jews passover, Chinese new year, Diwali etc.
the moon is probably more universally valid as a way of dividing up time than the arbitary months set up by the Julian calendar
to try & fit approximatly into the solar year.
eg why a 7 day week?
2006-09-06 01:58:50 · answer #7 · answered by fred 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why should they abolish it? It is a signal for them to know their start of fasting and "Holy months". And it is true. What they believe should be respected. Many Islams are consistently using this.
2006-09-06 01:53:22 · answer #8 · answered by Grace O 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think there are other things which islam should abolish and the lunar calendar the is low on the list.
2006-09-06 01:52:19 · answer #9 · answered by rocky 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
why does it bother you?
well next time keep your opinions to yourself! we appreciate your suggestions as i'm sure they are coming from some one who knows what he's talking about!! but we will not abolish the lunar calendar and by the way it's called it's called (hijreya = migration)
but i assume you already knew that because you are an Islamic scholar of course.
2006-09-06 01:51:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋