Discussion on the Shaykh observing the sun to identify the Night of Decree
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The Shaykh: What happened today? This is one of the problems with the oneness of the calls to prayer. I told you, I think it was Fajr?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: My daughter Salama called from Jeddah.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: After the greeting, of course, and the question, she said she saw the sun while it was speaking, and she felt that she saw it like a pot.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: I told her that the sun had not yet risen for us.
The student : Yes.
The Shaykh: Look, how did we tell her it had not risen? Anyway, she said she saw it, she saw it like a pot, with no rays, and so on. We told her, no, we still need about a third of an hour or a quarter of an hour, I forgot what I told her, for the sun to rise.The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: By Allah, we talked, did we talk? We hung up a bit, and Abu al-Yasir called.
The student : Yes.
The Shaykh: I saw the sun, I told her it had not yet risen. She said, strange, how has it not risen? I saw it. How did you see it? Like a pot, also. I told her it had not yet risen for us, it is still like this. And I wrote a paper, I have it here, before she called me, I wrote: according to what is coming in the calendar, five and thirty-five.
The student: Sunrise.
The Shaykh: Sunrise.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: And in my mind, there is a difference of a third of an hour, twenty minutes.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: I added twenty to five thirty-five, and it came out to five fifty-five.
The student: Five fifty-five.
The Shaykh: How is it that here it became ten to six?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: I got up and stood there in the kitchen, it appears, at five fifty-five the sun rose.
The student: Five fifty-five.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: As soon as it rose, the bell rang. I ran and opened the door for him, I said to him, come look, see if the sun has rays? I really saw rays at the beginning of its rising, you know, the rays are a bit light at first.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: But when it rose completely, it is impossible to look at it.
The student : Yes.
The Shaykh: What do you think, Ya'isam? He said, by Allah, there are rays.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: Anyway, it rose for us here, and also always with a difference of a third of an hour from the calendar. Later, I called, or she, the mother of al-Yasir, I forgot by Allah now, anyway, I told her the matter is such and such, we saw the sun as usual, bright, with rays, and so on. And I had a long discussion with her on this topic. The point is: that the times...
The Shaykh: Purchase?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: My daughter Salama called from Jeddah.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: After the greeting, of course, and the question, she said she saw the sun while it was speaking, and she felt that she saw it like a pot.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: I told her that the sun had not yet risen for us.
The student : Yes.
The Shaykh: Look, how did we tell her it had not risen? Anyway, she said she saw it, she saw it like a pot, with no rays, and so on. We told her, no, we still need about a third of an hour or a quarter of an hour, I forgot what I told her, for the sun to rise.The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: By Allah, we talked, did we talk? We hung up a bit, and Abu al-Yasir called.
The student : Yes.
The Shaykh: I saw the sun, I told her it had not yet risen. She said, strange, how has it not risen? I saw it. How did you see it? Like a pot, also. I told her it had not yet risen for us, it is still like this. And I wrote a paper, I have it here, before she called me, I wrote: according to what is coming in the calendar, five and thirty-five.
The student: Sunrise.
The Shaykh: Sunrise.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: And in my mind, there is a difference of a third of an hour, twenty minutes.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: I added twenty to five thirty-five, and it came out to five fifty-five.
The student: Five fifty-five.
The Shaykh: How is it that here it became ten to six?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: I got up and stood there in the kitchen, it appears, at five fifty-five the sun rose.
The student: Five fifty-five.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: As soon as it rose, the bell rang. I ran and opened the door for him, I said to him, come look, see if the sun has rays? I really saw rays at the beginning of its rising, you know, the rays are a bit light at first.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: But when it rose completely, it is impossible to look at it.
The student : Yes.
The Shaykh: What do you think, Ya'isam? He said, by Allah, there are rays.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: Anyway, it rose for us here, and also always with a difference of a third of an hour from the calendar. Later, I called, or she, the mother of al-Yasir, I forgot by Allah now, anyway, I told her the matter is such and such, we saw the sun as usual, bright, with rays, and so on. And I had a long discussion with her on this topic. The point is: that the times...
The Shaykh: Purchase?
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