My point is what makes you think the eclipse represents the night catching up to the day? Since when does 'the moon' mean the same thing as 'the night?'
So are you saying that if the moon isn't in the sky at 11pm, it isn't really night?
It is still night, however that is a lunar eclipse. In Solar eclipses, it can be 1 PM in the day and suddenly it will go dark. That is night outstripping the day.
No, that is called "suddenly going dark." It did not "suddenly become actual night time" requiring everyone to set ther clocks to PM. The moon merely got inbetween the earth and the sun causing the light conditions to dim dramatically. By no stretch of the imagination did the nighttime actually catch up to the day.
In the north pole, the definition of night is the exact same as you said; the only difference is that "the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside" is longer than in other places of the world.
So what you're saying is that for the people on the north pole, the night lasts 6 months and the day last 6 months as well. In that case, since you're required to say 5 prayers a day according to Islam, the muslim who moves to north pole will only have to say 5 prayers per 6 months. Are you cool with that?
who live in the more common areas of the earth in which the day time hours are more manageable for using the sun as a salat time piece are the only ones required to use the sun in that manner. Obviously believers living in those extreme conditions must use a different method. Allah says in the Qur'an that He does not wish to put unneccessary hardship on us. Common sense.
Okay, I see your point. In that case, remember when Allah said that ALL peoples of earth throughout human history received a messenger? So I'm sure the poor confused eskimos received right guidance in how to best follow their religion.
But Islam is meant to be the last religion for all mankind, and quran is supposed to be the last guidance which overwrites any previous guidances sent including bible, torah, etc. So why did the book meant for all mankind not have any instructions for people on the north pole?
Why would the Qur'an, even if it did have a specific message for the Inuit Peoples, overwrite their special instructions? The Qur'an is both the Universal Message as well as a special message for the Arabs who never had their own Book before.
You realize that "qualified" still represents the opinions of men, right? "Qualified" men have said all kinds of things over the centuries have almost always been proved wrong at some point. Official qualified certifications and degrees represent 'job security' and a certain amount of study. It doesn't mean "infallible mental faculity" or a monopoly on truth. Hypotheses and theories are no more than opinions formed based around what a person thinks a group of facts represent. That is all. Only Allah is the author of absolute Truth.
If you don't think qualifications matter when disregarding a scientific topic accepted by hundreds of thousands of scientists, would you be willing to get a brain surgery by someone who is unqualified in brain surgery?
I would be more interested in the surgeon's skills, abilities and experience in successfully completed brain surgeries rather than in official-sounding overblown pieces of paper presented by politically motivated committees
Someone who is not qualified in biology can still make a new discovery in Evolution or any scientific topic...
Exactly.
...but he will need to show his discovery to the actual experts and get them to back his discovery up before it will hold any merit.
If he is the one who discovered it, doesn't that make HIM the expert? What would they know?
If someone who doesn't have any qualifications goes and says 'I have disproved evolution' or 'I have disproved theory of relativity', and none of the mainstream scientists pay him any attention whatsoever...
That's a typical example of political corruption infesting what should be the pure learning and discovery fields.
...given that someone who does disprove evolution would receive at least the noble prize, it virtually guarantees that the other person doesn't know what he's talking about?
The person who definitively disproves evolution theory will not be a hero in his lifetime whether he is politically "qualified" or not. There is too much riding on evolution theory being a true fact that too many groups use to oppress and manipulate people.
P.S I posted some verses of the quran which say that homosexuality is not done by animals. Have you responded to them and have I missed it? Or did you just ignore them?
You just missed it. I know I responded to something about that last week.
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