Nisfu Sya'ban: Another way of determining the Beginning of Ramadan

Nisfu Sya'ban: Another way of determining the Beginning of Ramadan


In some traditions called Nisfu Sya'ban, "Half of Sha'ban" or it is also the mid is fifteenth day of Sha'ban is the eighth month, that after 15 days later must be valid on the first of Ramadan.
In calendars based on the orbit of the Moon Sya'ban has 30 days. This we have noted as necessary, only Ramadan having a different number of days, 29 in ordinary years and 30 in leap year.

With such traditional knowledge, may also have gone into effect since the time of Prophet Ibrahim or has also been done by the Prophet Muhammad, then some of people who deliberately go out when maghrib on the 15th of Sha'ban to consider the status of the Moon that rises on the east horizon. When the moon rises before the Sun go down over the western horizon so that night and the next day is the date 14 of that months. But remember that this incident is become a tradition for local residents in the Torrid Zone or hot areas around the equator. But when it proved that the moon was rising on eastern horizon after the sun go down in the west, then that night and the next day is the 15th of Sha'ban and next 16 night is the first of Ramadan. That Rukyah reasonable and logical if people do not have long-term Qamariah calendar.

To View or Rukyah Moon on the 15th of Sha'ban fair once performed on the area around Earth's equator to determine the date of the first of Ramadan next 16 days, and can be done in any weather conditions except when the sky covered with thick clouds. This is what should be done every year by the Islamic societies at the Mid-Sha'ban, they do not require the cost and the officials. Although Rukyah Nisfu Sya'ban is not actually entirely correct according to calendar calculations, but as more true than with Rukyah Hilal.




Hilal Rukyah weakness for implementing, among others is as follows:


1. Various records provided data that at the beginning of the month Qamariah or any first date, Moon position is always close to the Sun. If the time it applies Solar eclipses, the eclipse lasted for six hours, meanwhile Ijtimak or full eclipse is only for 7 minutes; and Moon continue to appear in the sky moving in one day or 24 hours as far as 11˚ 12 'from its orbit around the Earth.
If ijtimak Moon and the Sun happened on Wednesday in the hours between 18:00 until 06:00 the next day, or during the 12 hours that night according to Standard Time in Java, then after ijtimak must be recorded on a new moon. And such a day of Ramadan, fasting would have been required to be executed, but Hilal Rukyah invisible then Javanese populations do not fast on Thursday at that 1 Ramadan.

2. In accordance with the applicable law of nature that the area right to the Sun is hot perhaps dusty, thus the western sky looks hazy when maghrib that blocks the view to proving the existence Hilal Moon for lunar new moon. Similarly, to determine the first day of Ramadan based on the new moon of the Hilal Rukyah very thin smooth, yellow paper-thin. In vain they really want to see the Hilal for Ramadan fasting in next day.

3. Space that is very close to the circle of the Sun orb called Corona is in Alquran is called Zamharir in Ayaah 76/13, both the sphere of the Sun and the Corona is dazzle if by chance it can be seen when the weather was good.
So Hilal at the beginning of the first night of Ramadan so any other month of course not likely to be seen because of its form in the form of paper-thin circular line, because of distance, and it is in the Corona area dazzling. If people can still see that Hilal, or say they have seen it, certainly the views of people are Hilal on the second night of Ramadan as far as 12 degrees more from the Sun.

With weakness or unusual that manner, then Alquran is true with the provisions contained in Ayaah 2/185 that who is with the calculation of the calendar Qamariah can define a day is the date of the first of Ramadhan, then he must declare it to the public and fasting during the day together for 29 or 30 days.

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْتُمُونَ مَا أَنزَلْنَا
مِنَ الْبَيِّنَاتِ وَالْهُدَى مِن بَعْدِ مَا بَيَّنَّاهُ لِلنَّاسِ فِي الْكِتَابِ أُولَـئِكَ يَلعَنُهُمُ اللّهُ وَيَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّاعِنُونَ
2/159. Those who conceal what We send down from the descriptions and instructions after the WE explained him
in the Book for men, those are the people that ALLAH cursed and cursed all who curse.