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MUHAMMADIYAH.OR.ID, YOGYAKARTA – Based on the Quran and al-Hadith, it shows that the time of sunrise is determined by natural phenomena.
The opinions of the scholar-astronomers were shown to add to the reference regarding the provisions of this dawn time. Later this discussion was hotly debated due to disagreements about the height of the sun at sunrise.
As Mohamad Mas’udi, Secretary of the Tarjih Council and Central Executive of Tajdid Muhammadiyah explained, this discussion on the sunrise issue is also a continuation of the findings of the Islamic Sciences Research Network (ISRN) UHAMKA, the Center for Astronomy of Ahmad Dahlan University (Pastron UAD) and Falakyah University of Sciences Observatory, Muhammadiya. North Sumatra (OIF UMSU).
“Based on the findings of the three Muhammadiyah astronomy and astronomy research institutes, it is concluded that the height of the sun at sunrise at -20 degrees should be corrected and the Tarjih Council believes that -18 degrees is a more accurate number,” he explained. Mas’udi presenting the results of the Tarjih Muhammadiyah National Conference. Sunday 31 (12/20).
With this two-degree correction, the current sunrise time has been postponed around 8 minutes, for example at 03.50 in western Indonesia, the sunrise time has been delayed to 03.58 minutes.
