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> By the way, I'm in my period, I'm impure. I can't Eid Mubarak :( Hey, I'm having a hard time finding a reference for this. Can you source this claim that someone on their period can't celebrate Eid al-Fitr?
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In modern time, I have never heard of someone disqualifying menstruating women from celebrating. Though they are not expected to fast or pray during that time. My wife missed the first and last week this month -__-
Eid Mubarak! > no food or water But really no water? That doesn’t sound healthy. Of course you can easily make it through a day without fluids but…
People sit exams during ramadan, I don't know how
I was unaware until this year that it was based on when the moon was _sighted_, not just on a conventional lunar calendar. This leads to very short notice public holidays in a couple of countries AIUI.
- Follow Saudi Arabia (Mecca)
- Use astronomic calculations
- Moon needs to be sighted with naked eye in the local city
- Moon needs to be sighted with any tool (telescope) in the local city
- Moon needs to be sighted with naked eye anywhere in the world
- Moon needs to be sighted with any tool (telescope) anywhere in the world - ...
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> By the way, I'm in my period, I'm impure. I can't Eid Mubarak :( Hey, I'm having a hard time finding a reference for this. Can you source this claim that someone on their period can't celebrate Eid al-Fitr?
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> Sahih al-Bukhari 325 (Book 6, Hadith 30) #322
> Narrated 'Aisha: Fatima bint Abi Hubaish asked the Prophet, "I got persistent bleeding (in between the periods) and do not become clean. Shall I give up prayers?" He replied, "No, this is from a blood vessel. Give up the prayers only for the days on which you usually get the menses and then take a bath and offer your prayers".
"Assume good faith" would suggest that at the time the holy texts were written, bleeding was frequently associated with infection and disease. Germ theory came over a millenia later.
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Islam gave rights to woman at a time when they were treated as property everywhere else in the world. In modern time, I have never heard of someone disqualifying menstruating women from celebrating. Though they are not expected to fast or pray during that time. My wife missed the first and last week this month -__-
false on all accounts.
I was unaware until this year that it was based on when the moon was _sighted_, not just on a conventional lunar calendar. This leads to very short notice public holidays in a couple of countries AIUI.
My local mosque (and many others in the area) use calculations, but my mom's mosque just a few cities away uses moon sighting. We ended up starting and ending Ramadan at the same time but there was uncertainty on her part until last night. At the end of the day you just follow whatever mosque you go to. If you want to follow moonsighting but your mosque does calculation, where do you go to celebrate Eid if the days d…