[nasional_list] [ppiindia] OIC Summit Urged to Adopt Unified Islamic Calendar

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:12:30 +0100
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            Wednesday, 23, November, 2005 (21, Shawwal, 1426)



                  OIC Summit Urged to Adopt Unified Islamic Calendar
                  P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News 
                    
                        

                        Ali Manikfan    
                        
                  JEDDAH, 23 November 2005 - An Indian researcher has called 
upon the upcoming Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Makkah 
to discuss a unified Islamic calendar which would be followed by all Muslim 
countries.

                  Ali Manikfan, founder of the Calicut-based Hijra Committee of 
India and creator of an Islamic calendar, said a political decision on the 
matter would enable Muslims across the world to celebrate Eid on the same day.

                  Leaders of the 57-member OIC will assemble in Makkah for a 
two-day summit on Dec. 7. The extraordinary Islamic summit will discuss ways of 
strengthening Islamic unity and solidarity.

                  "Eid Al-Fitr should be celebrated on the first day of the 
lunar month of Shawwal. Muslims around the world are now celebrating it on 
three different days due to the lack of a unified calendar," Manikfan told Arab 
News.

                  Manikfan, who has devised a lunar calendar for the whole 
world, said this year Shawwal 1 was Thursday when people in Saudi Arabia and 
other Gulf and Arab countries celebrated Eid Al-Fitr. "Muslims in many other 
countries celebrated it on Friday and Saturday. This is wrong," he said.

                  Manikfan, who was born into a Maldivian aristocratic family, 
is fluent in 16 languages including English, Arabic, Latin, French, Russian, 
German, Persian and Sanskrit. Apart from astronomy, his fields of interest 
include marine biology, geography, traditional shipbuilding, education, 
fisheries, agriculture and horticulture. He is in the Kingdom to perform Umrah.

                  He said Muslim scholars have misunderstood a Hadith of the 
Prophet (peace be upon him), which said Sumoo Lirueyatihi Wa Aftiru Lirueyatihi 
(Fast when you see it - Ramadan crescent - and end fast when you see it - 
Shawwal crescent. "The Hadith actually means the date should be based on the 
lunar calendar," he pointed out.

                  "Islam is the most advanced and scientific religion. It's 
impossible to believe that the Prophet would instruct his followers in this age 
of science and technology to search for the new moon with their naked eyes when 
lunar and solar dates can be determined in advance on the basis of scientific 
calculations," he said.

                  Manikfan said a mistake made in the past should not mean 
Muslims have to live with it forever. "When we realize it is a mistake, we must 
have the courage to correct it in order to protect the common interests of the 
Islamic nation," he added.

                  Manikfan hopes that Saudi Arabia will take the lead and 
prepare a unified Islamic calendar for distribution in all Muslim countries.
                 
           
     


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