REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Former Constitutional Court (MK) chairman Mahfud MD said that the debate about rukyatul hilal or hisab in determining 1st Shawwal should be interpreted positively. One of the national scholars mentioned that any debate about rukyat precisely opened discourse about Islam that could be used as something that could add new insight.
"They were noisy about rukyat-hisab? Just take it positively. A scene that sometime exciting, opening discourse and expanding the insight of science," said Mahfud while he was serving the question of netizen through personal twitter account @mohmahfudmd, on Wednesday, July 15.
Mahfud then mentioned the Prophet Muhammad’s words which read ' Shuumuu biru'yatihi waafthiruu biru'yatihi'. It means 'Fasting when looking at the moon or rukyat, and ending your fasting if you see the moon’.
On the basis of the hadith, said Mahfud, there were scholars which have different ways of looking at rukyat. There was a way to see with the eye, and there were people do it with calculate it with the astronomy science.
"On the hadith, there are the scholars who have different ways in choosing how to do (rukyat) it, there is rukyat bi lain (with eyes), there is rukyat bil ilm (counting with the astronomy science)," said Mahfud.
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