Follow-up: How to know the true dawn?
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The Shaykh : And there is no power or might except in Allah. There are no lights or anything else. You can know the dawn yourself if there is no cloud or haze. You know it by yourself.
The questioner : The dawn that rises from...
The Shaykh : Allah has specified a limit for us. He said: meaning the wives during the nights of fasting [Al-Baqarah 2:187] So if you go out to the open and there are no lights in front of you, and there is no haze or cloud, look at the horizon. When you see this horizontal thread from north to south, yes, this whiteness, this is the dawn. Then stop and refrain from eating and drinking if you want to fast. And when you do not see it, you are still in the night. Did you understand?
The questioner : ... the sky, or otherwise?
The Shaykh : No, no. The dawn that extends from north to south, the horizontal one. Did you understand?
The questioner : We see in it a line from south to north...
The questioner : No, no, no. Perhaps it is what they call the Milky Way. This is the galaxy of stars. No, this is on the horizon, on the horizon, at the bottom of the sky, white. Did you get it? But if you cannot see the dawn, whether due to clouds, haze, lights, or because you are between houses, the current timing, the current timing has a five-minute advance in the dawn, especially throughout the year. In other words, if you want to hit the dawn, may Allah will it, delay by five minutes. Delay by five minutes. Did you understand? Some of the brothers say: No, it is delayed more. And he says: I went out several times on nights without a moon, without haze, and without clouds, and I found that it is delayed by a quarter of an hour. It appears to me that this is long, meaning excessive, meaning it makes the difference between the current written timing and the rising of the dawn ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. But I think this is an exaggeration. The five minutes, according to the estimate of the astronomers, they say that it is necessary for a person to delay the call to prayer for the dawn by five minutes. Yes, on the left.
The questioner : The dawn that rises from...
The Shaykh : Allah has specified a limit for us. He said:
Now have intercourse with them
فَالْآنَ بَاشِرُوهُنَّSo now, have relations with them and seek that which Allah has decreed for you. And eat and drink until the white thread of dawn becomes distinct to you from the black thread [of night]
فَالْآنَ بَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَابْتَغُوا مَا كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا حَتَّى يَتَبَيَّنَ لَكُمُ الْخَيْطُ الْأَبْيَضُ مِنَ الْخَيْطِ الْأَسْوَدِ مِنَ الْفَجْرِThe questioner : ... the sky, or otherwise?
The Shaykh : No, no. The dawn that extends from north to south, the horizontal one. Did you understand?
The questioner : We see in it a line from south to north...
The questioner : No, no, no. Perhaps it is what they call the Milky Way. This is the galaxy of stars. No, this is on the horizon, on the horizon, at the bottom of the sky, white. Did you get it? But if you cannot see the dawn, whether due to clouds, haze, lights, or because you are between houses, the current timing, the current timing has a five-minute advance in the dawn, especially throughout the year. In other words, if you want to hit the dawn, may Allah will it, delay by five minutes. Delay by five minutes. Did you understand? Some of the brothers say: No, it is delayed more. And he says: I went out several times on nights without a moon, without haze, and without clouds, and I found that it is delayed by a quarter of an hour. It appears to me that this is long, meaning excessive, meaning it makes the difference between the current written timing and the rising of the dawn ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. But I think this is an exaggeration. The five minutes, according to the estimate of the astronomers, they say that it is necessary for a person to delay the call to prayer for the dawn by five minutes. Yes, on the left.