What do you think?
"Question 3:
Why is the feast of Ramadan marked by the appearance of the crescent moon?
Answer:
I think you mean the fast of Ramadan. God commanded Muslims in the Qur'an to fast from dawn to sunset during the month called Ramadan (see Qur'an 2:185, 187). The beginning and end of the month is determined by the crescent (2:189) based on the instruction of God's Messenger, on whom be peace.
Why this method and not another is not for us to say but for God and His Messenger to prescribe. However, I find it an efficient method. It is a universally applicable method, and it allows for Ramadan to move through all the seasons. This allows believers to have the pleasure of worshipping God by fasting in all the various seasons: one year in the summer, some years later in the winter."
This will be my first Ramadan since my conversion to Islam and I must admit that I am getting a bit nervous. I am worried that I will find the fasting just too hard. I pray that I will find the strength that I need.Inshaallah.
Thank you my sister, for your information it is welcomed.
A real question instead of spam cutting and pasting an answer from some other web site to tislam moon sightinghese "questions" would be preferable
It doesn't work very well on a cloudy day.
Thank you. I am reading Al-Qur'an now, and your brief summary is bound to instruct me.
Moon worship has been practiced in Arabia since 2000 BC. The crescent moon is the most common symbol of this pagan moon worship as far back as 2000 BC.
In Mecca, there was a god named Hubal who was Lord of the Kabah.
This Hubal was a moon god.
One Muslim apologist confessed that the idol of moon god Hubal was placed upon the roof of the Kaba about 400 years before Muhammad. This may in fact be the origin of why the crescent moon is on top of every minaret at the Kaba today and the central symbol of Islam atop of every mosque throughout the world:
Thanks P.M I know new Muslims really appreciate all this info. You are doing great sis. Have a good night :) GTB :)
OK thank you but i know all months in our year we do it on moon not just Ramadan if u know because it`s more good than any other thanks any way for your effort to explain to every 1
Jazaki Allah khair sister
May Allah reward you for all the great posts you post every day
Muslims don't worship the moon as some answers said
Do not make obeisance to islam moon sightingthe sun nor to the moon; and make obeisance to Allah Who created them, if Him it is that you serve. [Surah Hamim-Sajda (41): 37]
ty sis that is the 1 thing i have not gotten to yet, & when do Ramadan start & end this year?i need all the help you would like to give me,
The word Ramd in Arabic means to burn hence Ramadan is a month that sins burn away, inshallah.
The moon is something we use to keep time and nothing else. To those say we worship the moon this is another lie because why we use a crescent instead of a moon, as a symbol. shouldn't we use the moon as a symbol if we worshiped it? The main point is that the crescent wasn't used a symbol in Islam until the Ottoman Turk period during the 16th century.
Then does the Christains worship the sun because they follow a solar calender then?
Thanks I didn't know this
Gazaki Allah khair
Because Allah is a pagan 'moon god'.
It's because Allah is really a moon god, isn't it? I understand that's why Muslims revere the moon. It's really just a dead ball of dust and rock, but Muhammad didn't know that.
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