Eureka! The MOON

Elucidating the divisions adrift in our Islamic societies one is sighting of the moon and having Eid on 2 to 3 different days when there is one moon for the entire world that makes it a Faux Pas for all the Muslims around the world. As Eid is marked with the sighting of the moon and our calendars are lunar based, what we should do is collaborate the sighting of the moon. All the Islamic bodies given the task to inform the sighting of the moon must hold witness to each other. If there is a sighting of the moon from any part of the world it should be verified on a minimum of 3 different places (the number can be chosen by shura; mutual consultation) other than the Polar Regions after which the entire world will bow into acceptance. The day on which the moon is sighted from 3 different places will be the last day of fasting and the following day will be an Eid day no matter where you are in the world and no matter what the time difference is.

The above hypothesis rests on the followings:

1. The world is not flat. This means that we cannot have a full earth with full daytime or a full earth with full night time. We cannot have a day’s difference between countries at any point on the Globe. People need to understand the difference between ‘time zones between countries’ and ‘varying length times of daytime and night time’. The time zone difference between countries cannot exceed more than 12 hours no matter where you are on the world map, whether that be in Alaska or New Zealand. As the earth moves in one direction from west to east you cannot add up both sides of the globe as one to calculate a time difference of 23 hours as people so believe. For example, some people believe that the time difference between Samoa (some sort of American Island) and Auckland, New Zealand is 23 hours but actually they are an hour apart from each other. This is because they calculate the time difference by spreading the earth as a flat object. Furthermore, daytime can increase or decrease by a few hours but the total time of one rotation of the earth remains 24 hours where half of the earth represents 12 hours.

This can be verified by the following diagram:

Image Courtesy Wikipedia

In the above diagram the red circle represents Samoa and  below down and slighty to the left is Auckland, New zealand. If the Sun is anywhere, meaning, front, back, left, and right, the time difference between the two canot be greater than a few hours keeping in mind that the earth spins in one direction from West to East around the Sun. If the Sun strikes the earth from the direction of our eyesight, when looking at the picture, would tell you that, if there is daytime in Samoa there must be daytime in Auckland, New zealand and if there is night in Auckland and day in Samoa there must be daytime in Auckland a few hours after, with a difference of approx. an hour. Placing the Sun from all other directions would tell you that the proximity of the both places means that there is not a great deal of time difference between the two and definitley not 23 hours.

2. Yes, we do have places in the world where you can have 24 hours of daytime, such as the Polar Regions, but what we need to understand is that this full day’s difference is only when it is compared to itself as an exception that has no effect on the time zone difference of 12 hours maximum.  In anchorage, Alaska, we can have a maximum of 19 hours of daytime where the sun rises at 4:20 a.m and sets at 11:42 p.m on 21^st June (the longest day of the year). This means that there is a minimum night time of just 4 hours and 38 minutes, for example, on 21^st June. This shorter night of just 4 hours and 38 minutes is compensated by longer nights at any other point on the Globe whereby the time zones difference remains 12 hours to the maximum but never a full day of 24 hours. This fact rests on the premise that any country in the world will fall either on the half that has plus 12 hours difference or on the half that has minus 12 hours difference as the world is a sphere and is rotating.

http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/polar/polar_geog.html

        http://www.wonderquest.com/south-pole-new-moon.htm

3. Having Eid on 2 different days creates divisions and profanity to Islamic Laws as some enjoy Eid whereas some are fasting and you cannot unite the world and cannot celebrate this day, en masse, with friends and family across the Globe.

If all the Islamic Scholars do not agree to the above hypothesis presented to them then I have no choice but to ask them, isn’t it the Satan that is supposed to fast on the Eid day? If that is true (you believe) then all the Islamic scholars are behind the veil of ignorance and will be held responsible for creating such divisions that try to create their importance as religious leaders that want people to follow them even if it has to contradict Islam. Islam is the ‘De Facto Religion’ of the Universe and at the same time elegantly simple that has no divisions within it whatsoever. It is the human kind that masters hypocrisy.

http://www.fgienr.net/time-zone/

Let us take the example of Toronto, Canada and Islamabad, Pakistan. The time difference between the two is approx 9 hours. If in Toronto the time is 10.00 a.m then the time in Pakistan is 19:00 p.m. Now suppose the moon is sighted in Pakistan at 11:00 p.m. after breaking the fasting at sunset around 19:20 p.m as of 17th June 2012. This would mean that the following day is an Eid Day in Pakistan. Now in Canada it will still be daytime and people will be fasting whereby they will break their fasting at sunset around 21:02 as of 17th June 2012. As the time moves, in approx. 11 hours the people in Toronto will be breaking their fasting and the people in Islamabad will be getting ready for Eid celebrations and Eid Prayers. Ultimately, both the Nation’s Muslim Community will be celebrating Eid on the same day without any one having to fast on the Eid day like Satan.

Is there a day’s difference between London and Islamabad? Yet I have witnessed people having Eid on two different days. The Question is why?  

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

http://www.moonchart.org/time.htm

http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0408/es0408page01.cfm?chapter_no=04

This Article is a Third glimpse of what needs to be done to Revive the True Islamic Empire.

A whole Plan is in the Making!

Division OR Union? You Choose!

By Zeshan Ali Haider

The Capitalistic Societies with Excessive Laws are Manufacturing Islamic Activists,

‘that will rage war on Western ideologies and redeem the Islamic Empire through necessity’ - By Zeshan Ali Haider.

Image Courtesy Michaelhacker.at (illustration)

Today’s governments are no better rulers than of their past predecessors. Their flagship has always been devising laws that scrutinize the masses through austerity to retain their supremacy without having the audacity to look inside their own mansions. It is to no surprise that these governments are, and were, influenced by the self-destructive school of Capitalism enticing them to jump on a bandwagon of capitalism and receive taxes to run their day-to-day establishments. But in this race of gains who has tethered who and who is the victim and the final culprit remains an enigma for the common man.

''Please do not miscontrue the use of the term 'Capitalism' in this context. Capitalism that advocates Speculation and Trading on Financial Markets, Earnings through Interest, and the right to pile reserves of paper money, gold etc without purifying it, is cursed'' 

Not having to discover much, the masses are tethered by capitalism and governments where capital moves from the pockets of hoi polloi to capitalistic plutocrats and governmental reserves that run the school of capitalism and their blood sucking counterparts; Financial markets, useless laws to make money & Banks. This school advocates and practices making money on money. This means people not having money, the poor, have no part to play in the race of gains, making it unjust by the first impression. Digging deeper would excavate the remains of capitalism of the past where pharaoh used slaves to increase his own wealth and power, no different from the governmental structure of the 21^st century, where common man is a virtual slave.                                                                           

How do banks make majority of their profits? By taking interest on accounts from account holders; the common people saving money for their future, and lending it further to businesses on a much higher interest. Thus, banks perform major capital formation that would have been lying idle in many households or otherwise consumed. But why can’t the governments use their idle money lying as heaps of paper, gold, and what have you, to make it available to businesses without interest? The deception is not just the interest part but is the amount of interest paid to the account holder which is more or less equal to the amount of inflation in the country. So think on how much the masses gain and how gravely misbalanced the system is of the Era.  

''You cannot blame the people for participating in the race of gains becuase the system forces them to participate willy-nilly to make ends meet'' 

Then we blame the past on wrong impressions rather than the system that prevailed, and is prevailing, under governments. It is not the question of people not willing to contribute to socialism but it’s the system that is unjust towards the people that coerce them to take part in the race of gains, as intended by capitalism. If the system were that just people would have definitely taken part in the collective gains of the society in general rather than the individual race of gains where the smaller fish always ends up being consumed rather than each having their separate forms of sustenance (see picture).

The bigger question is, if the masses are to be given a mere part of the money that they pay in taxes why would they need governments for it? What role does a government play in the prosperity of its people for what it gives (social benefits) is far less than what it takes (every imaginable and unimaginable taxes)? Similarly, what role does a bank play in reviving a society for what it takes is far more than what it gives back to the society? If you do not believe then, ‘why does Greece Central Bank has reserves of 3585 million ounces of Gold’?

To camouflage their clandestine love for capitalism bamboozled the common people by devising morality in companies by introducing Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics that is termed an oxymoron which further puzzled the already puzzled masses. Please do not say it employs people because it is obligatory for them to use human capital. Unfortunately, this human capital, now, is also not being employed in banks through automation of processes and manpower being replaced by machine power where the victims are always common people known as the public.

Results are, masses are running governmental expenditures rather than governments running expenditures of the poor, let alone the masses. It seems as if they are, but in fact they are not.

Let us look at the Capitalistic Society:

1. The public pays 21% (highest in Europe) on everything they buy.
2. They pay Personal Taxes.
3. They pay Independent Taxes.
4. They pay Income Taxes.
5. They pay Car Insurances.
6. They pay Bank Transfer Fees.
7. They pay Income Contributions to make up pension which is not even 100% reimbursed.
8. There is no free movement of people in Europe, except for tourism. If a Spanish person comes to Belgium he will only be allowed residence if he or she shows solid proof of work and income, otherwise repatriated to Spain.                                
9. Interest Based Banking.
10. European Telecommunications Network Operators Association (ETNO) is planning to impose heavy cost on popular Websites that will virtually cut off Internet in the developing countries.                   

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57449375-83/u.n-could-tax-u.s.-based-web-sites-leaked-docs-show/

Image Courtesy herbertpedron.com

The dire need of today, and of our generations to come, is to come up with a System of Economics that is simple yet just to all and that system cannot be devised without the Divine Law that laid down the rules of Islamic Economics through the ‘De Facto Religion Islam’.

Let us look at the Islamic Society (to be implemented as per ZAH Philosophy)

1. 2.5 % tax (Zakat) on all Idle Money, including Governments, Banks, Reserves. Used to make poor more productive citizens through projects that bring in capital. 
2. 10% tax on Companies.
3. Price is not equal to the cost of production.
4. Fixed prices and variable production through expansion.
5. Interest Free Banking.
6. Money would be in circulation flowing from all the masses to the government and from government back to the masses in juxtaposition to continuous improvement to all alike. Step by Step.

A Pareto-Optimal System. (A whole plan is in the making).

Note: ‘Tax percentage remains a moot point for mutual agreement’.     

                                                                                                                

Example of Greece: A perfect example of too much restrictions and laws in the Euro Zone has forced Greece to step out of euro and initiate a vacuum for disasters to follow. Greece now wants 100 Billion bailout for banks.

http://www.goldmoney.com/gold-research/greek-central-bank-adds-to-gold-reserves.html

Example of Facebook IPO: Who gained the most in the Initial Public Offering by Facebook? These were no other than the deal brokers; NASDAQ, Facebook owners, & venture capitalists. Whether the stocks/shares went up or down these advocates of capitalism brokered billions in profit at the hands of the masses who were coerced to enter the race of capital gains and ended up being bamboozled time and again.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/02/us-facebook-wealth-idUSTRE8111VZ20120202

If the current system of capitalism suggests not helping the poor because they worked hard to earn their riches then why do you think Europe should bail out Greece as the people across Europe (other than Greece) have worked hard to keep afloat their governments by paying high taxes?

Ironically, the current system of economics or should I say capitalism will ultimately be obliged to implement the Islamic Economics until the common people get heywired ad nauseam to capitalism.

Look at the following scenario:

Suppose that the world population has increased from 7 billion in 2012 to 14 billion in 2145 (estimate).

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

The first question that will arise would be to ask, how would this population of 14 billion be fed? With the current system of capitalism where you have trillions in reserves but still have almost a billion starving population can you expect it to feed almost the double amounts in the future with starving people of more than 2 billion? If the current system prevails capital will remain in the hands of the very few on the top and you will not be able to feed 12 Billion plus 2 Billion of starving population. Will you accept the system that allows the rich to maintain their riches at the hands of the starving poor and let them have parties and eat cakes, while the poor starve to death? Is this the system you want to implement? Being rich is no crime but getting rich through this current system of gains at the hands of the masses is.

Ultimately, Islamic Economics will be inevitable yet the men in power will deceive you as they have for the past hundred years and abstain your grant. If you want a just system you would definitely try to implement the Islamic economics presented to you in the article, the revival of the Islamic republic of Pakistan and its Islamic counterparts. It is the Islamic Empire that will have to take the lead as an example.

Gravely, if you have an unjust system you should at least have a just system that creates opposition to the unjust one. Unfortunately you have no just system that can at least give poor people the hope for the revival and the choice between the ‘Right system’ and the ‘Wrong system’.

Islamism will become a necessity for the World Economics. Although they (men in Power) will fail to implement it by rejecting it.

This Article is a second glimpse of what needs to be done to revive the true Islamic Empire and its rest of the world Counterparts.

(Re-read Article: The revival of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan)

Equality OR Injustice? You Choose!

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