Is the time for Fajr in the Umm al-Qura calendar correct?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. This questioner says: Is the time announced for the Fajr prayer in the Umm al-Qura calendar the correct time, or is there a difference between the correct time and the time listed in the calendar?
Answer:
This is the propagation of a doubt spread by some pretenders to knowledge, who claim that the Umm al-Qura calendar contains an error. They say that it is off by an extra third of an hour, and they delay fasting. The problem is that they delay fasting after the people and have intercourse with their wives after the people by a third of an hour. My brother, compare the Umm al-Qura calendar with reality precisely, and see. We have compared it precisely every time, and no error was found. We are praying now according to the Umm al-Qura calendar, and we go out, and the light has appeared. It has appeared clearly.
It is clear. Do not believe so-and-so. Look at reality. We rely on the Umm al-Qura calendar. We wait a third of an hour or half an hour at most, and we pray. If we go out, it is clearly daytime. Clearly daytime. We have not found any error in it. We have not found any error in it, and the Muslims act according to it, and they have not found any error in it. Yes.
May Allah reward you. This questioner says: Is the time announced for the Fajr prayer in the Umm al-Qura calendar the correct time, or is there a difference between the correct time and the time listed in the calendar?
Answer:
This is the propagation of a doubt spread by some pretenders to knowledge, who claim that the Umm al-Qura calendar contains an error. They say that it is off by an extra third of an hour, and they delay fasting. The problem is that they delay fasting after the people and have intercourse with their wives after the people by a third of an hour. My brother, compare the Umm al-Qura calendar with reality precisely, and see. We have compared it precisely every time, and no error was found. We are praying now according to the Umm al-Qura calendar, and we go out, and the light has appeared. It has appeared clearly.
It is clear. Do not believe so-and-so. Look at reality. We rely on the Umm al-Qura calendar. We wait a third of an hour or half an hour at most, and we pray. If we go out, it is clearly daytime. Clearly daytime. We have not found any error in it. We have not found any error in it, and the Muslims act according to it, and they have not found any error in it. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [54/186] هل وقت الفجر في تقويم أم القرى صحيح؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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