We're all familiar with the ancient tradition of waiting for the first sighting of the Ramadan crescent by some guy in the middle of the desert. A more recent tradition has been the annual guessing game we play to see who gets it right each year; the scientists/astronomists who can predict the exact second the crescent appears for decades to come, or the religious figures who want it done the old-fashioned way because... well, because they say so!!
I personally think it's a quaint tradition and should continue as part of the whole Ramadan experience, but I don't think it should precede science and technology. And besides, why should we bother when we're just going to fast when Saudi Arabia tells us to anyway?
What do you think? Science or religion?
Religion, since the whole fasting thing is a religious practice, no?
ReplyDeleteI say let the mulla?s decide.
(See mullas, I?m willing to give you that and more if only you stay in your mosques and spare us your judgments on clonning and Nancy Ajram's gigs)
I agree
ReplyDeleteChess would not be so interesting if the Bishop or Knight wanted to play solo!
"How dare you question the verses in q'ran,
ReplyDeleteصوموا لرؤيته، و إفطروا لرؤيته"
Well that was the religion speaking.
This is the sad part, the interpreters of the holy q'ran, they believe that only by witnessing the crescent with bare eyes is the official declaration of the start of the holy month. No wonder why we're going backwards. Well you never know may be zarga' elyamama is still alive in Saudi Arabia.
زرقاء اليمامة or Medusa?
ReplyDeleteInstitutionalized religion or pagan religions?
The choices that we need to make..
Season's greetings everyone
Islam and the Qur'an are supposed to be the religion and book for all time. I don't see how that can be possible without flexibility and mojaraat il modern advancements in technology and science. Aslan Islam has always been an advocate for progress in the sciences. I think sticking blindly to the ways things were done before "just because" is what is Un-islamic. Sometimes widdee agool 7ag those religious traditionists stop trying to make people live in the past! One of the most common words in the Qur'a is versions of the word "ta3aqaloo", "ta3aqalo", "ta3aqalo"!!! Afala ta3qiloooooooon??! hehehehe
ReplyDeleteGigi, progressively