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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Off Topic -Happy Ramadhan
sorry, this one is too good to pass up...
http://www.muslim-canada.org/ch15hamid.html#time
excerpt:
"(f) If and when a Muslim lands on the moon, it will obviously not be possible to face the earthly Ka'bah in the service of prayer; nor to follow the sun's rising, passing the meridian and setting on Earth. What I humbly submit to the Muslim jurists
[for those unfamiliar w/ Islam, in Islam, civil law is
derived from religious law -sharia-, so "jurists" are experts
in religious law first, and civil law second] is to
construct a Ka'bah on the moon, at the point which would be face
to face with the earthly Ka'bah, during equinox time, during a
full moon night when our satellite is just above Mecca. That is,
a bit North of the centre of the face of the moon that we see. I
think that would lie in the region named 'Ocean of Tranquillity'.
I am personally so much the more convinced of this solution,
since the Ka'bah is not confined to the building of the ten odd
yards high, but also what is above in the atmosphere up to the
heaven. In a Hadith of al-Bukhari, the Holy Prophet is reported
to have said that the Earthly Ka'bah is the antipode of the
mosque of the angels underneath the Throne of God, (and so
exactly so that if one were to throw a stone from there, it would
fall on the top of the Ka'bah on earth). The great savant Ibn
Kathir (Bidayah, 1, 163) reports that there is a particular
Ka'bah on each of the seven heavens, each for the use of the
inhabitants of that heaven. He adds (Tafsir, on surah 52,
verse 4) the name of the Ka'bah on the seventh heaven is al-Bait
al-Ma'mur, and that the earthly Ka'bah is at exactly the antipode
of this heavenly Ka'bah. Our Ka'bah symbolizes as a window opening
on the Divine Throne. If that is so, the permanent residents of
the moon may even go there for pilgimage, since coming to earth
for that purpose would be too much for them. This solution may
help later to determine the point of the Qiblah on other stars
and planets also, if man alights and settles there. It may by the
way be pointed out that the days and nights on the moon are not
of about 12 hours each, but of 14 days each. The timing differs
on different celestial bodies. "
Received on Tue Dec 05 2000 - 21:56:54 CST
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