I am a student in Islam and I had spent enough time with Mr. Alimanikfan sahib. Certainly I was In search of person like him because I had enough doubts from my childhood about following of Muslims start Islamic Month. This is because the time was Armstrong stepped in The Moon. Actually my family was fully religious and my grand father was the main Qazi (Judge in Islamic matters) of our district. So he was the person who decides the fasting and Eid in our District. In my age of 4 years He was expired and the next Qazi was his brother. When the begging Ramadan and Eid the people were waiting in front his house to know the moon is visibled. But I cannot afford this process even though I was enjoying the suspense because of my hero Neil Armstrong. So often I was asking to elders that we cannot know where the moon is now? But I did not get any satisfied answers to my doubts. But one thing I understand that Science and Islam conflicts that time.

My doubts was these in this regard that We want to see the moon to conform the month is 29 or 30.If all the months are 29 days then no need any conformation, if all the months are 30 days also the same. But we are doing that if we did not see the crescent in the day of conjunction we adds one day more and saying the last month was 30. So I thought this is not the way of accuracy. But I was helpless that time to clear my doubts.

Only seven years before I met Mr. Ali Manikfan sahib. We met very accidentally yet I don't know he is the man of this subject. But it was a plan of Allah. Alhamdulliah, now my doubts are cleared and I create a web site with his studies and recently I made an animation movie in this regard. Kindly you go through The First and Final

Allah may help us to find out the right path to him.

Wassalam

Abdulrahim.

Reply

Alhamdulillaah. WaSalaatu WasSalaamu Ala Rasoolillaah.
Aooothobillaahi MinasShaytaanirRajeem. BismillaahIrRahmaanIrRaheem.
RabbishRahli Sadri Wa Yassirli Amri WahlulUqdatan Millisaani Yafqahoo Qauli.
AsSalaamu Alaykum w.r. w.b.

May Allaah (SWT) reward you for your efforts and nice movie Masha'Allaah.

However, please correct the following in your movie Insha'Allaah:

1) You say that Qibla changes and people pray back to back at the International Date line (IDL). This is not true. Qibla changes at the spot which is diametrically opposite to the Makkah on the Globe. This spot is NOT at the IDL line. In Fact IDL is diametrically opposite to Greenwich, England, not to Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

2) You say start of the month = conjunction.

Based on Sunnah, start of month = first visible crescent - Hilal, and NOT the completely dark, Conjunction, which is invisible even by telescopes and rockets.

3) Makkah date is different from dates in other parts of the world. For example right now if it is 8PM in New York on Sunday, it is Monday in Makkah.

The Earth being spherical and not Flat, Allaah's system of starting with Hilal sighting means that the Lunar Date Line would shift every month. This is the natural system of Allaah (SWT) as opposed to fixing the date line which corresponds more to a Flat earth concept.

Jazakum Allaahu Khayran. WasSalaam.
Brother.

My Reply

Sir,

I am very thankful to you for your immediate response to my letter in regards of the movie "The First and Final". But It was totally disappointed me because you put me again in the same doubts which was I carried in my child hood. This is the same thing which was doing my grand fathers but I thought it was because of their lack of knowledge and communication facilities and ignorance to science. But now you are also in the same track with old vine in new glass that you know or do not.

However I will explain in detail.

In regards of Qibla, your statement is utterly impractical because

1) And to Allah belongs the east and west, where ever you turn there is the Face of Allah, Surely Allah is all sufficient for his creatures’ needs, All knowing (2:115)

Allah (SWT) already described the East and West, it corresponds to Mecca through Quraan and

IDL (The place difference in Days) are is the border of east and west. Prophet told us that Qibla is in between of East and West. You are thinking every thing through globe and Maps. Nobody came to America through the polar region. The mankind spread from Makah to East and West. And the continents also drifted in the see to east and west.

2) The Qibla from the Spot opposite to Kaaba in globe should be back to back to all directions even if it is in a Masjid either in a ship or Island. It may be called “Masjid of confutations” by the enemies of Islam. This leads Islam to impractical.

3) The earth is not only a shape of sphere but also it is a magnet; it is having two poles that cannot be changed and it is rotating in an axis even It may not be visible ( note the visibility and reality) You can do any thing to dummy of a man, But it cannot apply to real man. You cannot describe the point without help of a GPS on Globe which you are standing on earth. These are Impractical to a layman.

2) You say start of the month = conjunction.

Based on Sunnah, start of month = first visible crescent - Hilal, and NOT the completely dark, Conjunction, which is invisible even by telescopes and rockets.

Definitely the number of months with Allah is twelve months, from the day He created the heavens and it is Earth in his book, of them four are sacred. (9:36).

The Ayaas is giving clear answer to all our confusions.

1) The month is already established in the Earth from the day of creation, before He created Adam (Alaihissalam). So it does not relate with man’s visibility of moon.

2) Man has to find the accurate borders of month because Allah wants to keep four of them sacred means do not mix-up borders within the other months.

3) You are stating that conjunction is completely invisible even by telescope and rockets.

It is seriously untrue. A) If it is an eclipse we can see the moon in the time of conjunction. B) Armstrong went to moon by rocket, it does not matter even it is a conjunction.

4) Quran talks about a single visible crescent is the last one of a month - Urjoon al Qadeem (old) . Not new one. it can be seen anybody without a help of telescope or rocket. And Quran always saying about Qamer (Moon), Ahilla (hilals) and Manazil (manzils)

4) Makkah date is different from dates in other parts of the world. For example right now if it is 8PM in New York on Sunday, it is Monday in Makkah.

1) In this regard I clearly explained through the animation in the chapter of days.” A red spot shown in the globe is the position of Mecca. You watch the animation carefully, now you can find out that a new day does not rise on earth before the day in Mecca sets. And a day does not set before Mecca completes that day. This means a day of Mecca is the day of whole world for fasting, Eid and Arafa or Hajj.”

2) As per the above said Ayaas we knew that day and months are established from the time of creation. So let us go for a while 200 million years back. Science is saying that the continents was together as a super continent called Pangaea 200 million years ago and that time the days were starting and ending in the same land and it is only one third of The Earth. Continents spitted from both side of super continent and it was drifted to East and West through the process of self rotation and gravity of moon etc (see the attachment of Pictures). It is affected as storms earth quakes and floods etc. But now only we knew the land exceed in to two days. As Quran is asking ‘ And at the earth how it is out spread?” (88:20)

3) Definitely, the first house appointed for mankind that is at Makah, Blessed place and guidance for whole world. (3:96) Allah established all the rules in his earth and it is completed by Mohammed Mustafa Sallallahu Alaihivassallam without any confusion.

1) And the earth we have spread out like a carpet ; set thereon mountains firm and steady ; and produced therein all kinds of things in due balance .(15:19)

2) He who has made for you the earth like a carpet spread out ; has enabled you to go about therein by roads And channels ; and has sent down water from the sky . with it have we produced divers pairs of plants each separate from the others(20:53) .

3) Yea , the same that has made for you the earth like a carpet spread out , and has made for you roads and channels therein , in order that ye may find guidance on the way ;(43:10)

4) And God has made the earth for you as a carpet spread out (71:19)

What do these Quranic Verses mean? Earth is like a carpet, not in shape, but in act. It having borders and that is the International Date Line. For example you take big carpet and put it on any curved shape and stand on it. Lunar date lines are not in earth, which is in the moon called Manzils or Phases of moon. Allah’s System is the super system; no other system to over come it and it is activated before we got eyes. So do not pull it down with visibility and lunar date lines, and do not interpret one or two hadees as it contradicts to all these proofs.

I hope you got enough proofs which guided me to make the movie “The First and Final

WasSalaam.

Abdul Rahim