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

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