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How did the people in the time of Muhammad know when it was midnight if there were no clocks ?

Dated: 20/08/1984

Location: The London Mosque

Language: English

Audience: General

How did the people in the time of Muhammad know when it was midnight if there were no clocks ?

No, but they still kept time. They had a measure of time by counting them through pehar, as we call. So, they were not totally timeless people. They had a very acute sense of time and they had divided the days and nights into sections. And they knew how to read time through stars and through sunsets and through sunrises and so many other things, you know. They had a measure of time. And that I know some people in our country too who are totally illiterate, who don’t know even to look at a watch.

They have a very acute sense of time. And there was one in Vakfejidhi, one gentleman. He used to claim that he could tell the time to a minute just through his intuition. And to begin with, he surprised me. He was not wrong off the mark by two, three minutes, more than two, three minutes. But when I started asking for time at odd times and suddenly here and there, then he began to go off the mark by half hour sometimes and then after some time. So, whenever I told him, look here, this time you have gone astray by half hour or so. So, every time he would say he is suffering from a headache or a knee ache or something. That is his watch was out of order. But still, there are people who know how to keep time.

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Updated on November 10, 2024

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