Along comes Ramadan and along with it Come the Propagators of Doubt
Allah has made the month of Ramadan a month for goodness, blessing and worship through a variety of actions. Tremendous historical events took place in Ramadan.
Therefore it is an obligation to know the merited status of this tremendous month, and people should busy themselves with righteous actions such as fasting, the night prayer, recitation of the Quran and ‘Itikaaf, as the Prophet - صلى الله عليه وسلم – used to specify this month with a variety of forms of worship.
However, in this age of ours, a lot of people are negligent of this month.
There are those who want to abrogate acting upon the sighting of the moon and rely on astronomical calculations. There are also those who want to link the sighting of the moon with astronomical calculations; if they are not in accordance with each other they care nothing for the sighting.
In these recent days, some newspapers news published that it would be impossible to sight the moon on Friday night! This is how they placed a judgment on a future matter – something that no one knows except Allah! How many times have they claimed the same, and the opposite of what they propagated came to pass; the moon was sighted on the same night that they claimed it would not be sighted on. This is because, most of the time, there is no doubt about the sighting of the moon, one who sees is not like one who hears:
Astronomical calculations are carried out by man, man is prone to erring and deficiency. All our worship is based upon either the sighting of the moon, or the sighting of the break of dawn [for Fajr], or the decline of the sun [for Dhuhr], or the sighting for when a person’s shadow is proportional to him [for ‘Asr], or the sighting for the setting of the sun [for Maghrib], or the sighting for the fading red twilight haze [for the end of Maghrib] for the times of our five daily prayers!
This is only done by sighting it with one’s eyesight, which cannot be doubted. Therefore, if the sighting of the moon is not in accordance to astronomical calculations, then astronomical calculations are not to be relied upon.
Indeed the Messenger of Allah - صلى الله عليه وسلم - said:
He did not specify a number of Rak’aat. He - صلى الله عليه وسلم - also said:
Again he did not specify a number; he encouraged people to pray the night prayer while he did not specify a number. What is required is to perfect the prayer, not the number of Rak’aat.
And may the Salaat and Salaam be upon our prophet Muhammad, his family and companions.
Written by: Saaleh ibn Fawzaan al Fawzaan.
Member of the Committee of Major Scholars.
[1] This is an area of differing between our scholars and the affair is expansive.
todayPublished:Jul 201, 2012
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
وجاء رمضان وجاءت معه التشكيكات
جعل الله سبحانه وتعالى شهر رمضان شهراً للخيرات والبركات والعبادات بأنواع الطاعات، جرت فيه أحداث عظام في تاريخ الإسلام.
قال الله تعالى:
{لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ}
فيجب أن يعرف لهذا الشهر العظيم قدره ويستغل بالطاعات من صيام وقيام وتلاوة قرآن واعتكاف كما كان النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يخصه بأنواع الطاعات – إلا أنه في وقتنا الحاضر فرط فيه الكثير من الناس .
والحساب عمل بشري يدخله الخطأ والنقص وعبادتنا كلها مبنية على الرؤية للهلال والرؤية لطلوع الفجر والرؤية لدلوك الشمس، والرؤية لمساواة الظل مع الشخص والرؤية لغروب الشمس والرؤية لمغيب الشفق الأحمر لأوقات الصلوات الخمس.
وتبين ذلك يكون بالرؤية البصرية التي لا مجال للتشكيك فيها فإذا خالف الحساب الرؤية فلا اعتبار له.
كتبه
صالح بن فوزان الفوزان
عضو هيئة كبار العلماء
todayتاريخ الإضافة :Jul 201, 2012
editالمترجم :أبو عبد الواحد نادر أحمد
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