And what makes you think that I quoted it without reading it (or without reading your posts)? ... You are just evading all counter-arguments by falsely claiming that they are irrelevant (or context bound)... This won't prove you right, my friend..
You can deflect all you want friend. If you use opinions of scholars in your arguments , the same scholars are unanimous in moon sighting.
So, for the first time you have admitted the absence of categorical prohibition... Good, you are learning!
And no, I didn't quote Maududi, I quoted Taqi Usmani.
Your attempts are getting more laughable as we progress. I already showed you categorical prohibition. Then you start debating a new tangent totally ignoring that.
Let me remind you my friend that not even once have I tried to pass my opinion off as words of Almighty. You have tried to do so repeatedly, that's why that bit of advice for you..
I have not. That’s your go to when you have no arguments left. As was proven multiple times in our verbal sparring. The moment you run out of arguments, you will start crying “Oh you pass of Ulema opinions as the word of Allah.” Whereas i have maintained that it is the opinion of learned people on the Words of Allah. As i said, laughable.
[QUOTE="M. Sarmad, post: 11519949, member: 150591"
No, I won't. ... I don't need to
In a few decades from now, people would be laughing at the illiterate Mullahs of the past (and their followers) who declared using lunar calculations to determine Ramazan days as 'Haram'... The same way as we deride those Mullahs today who had declared the use of loudspeakers, telephones, trains, television and whatnot as 'Haram' a few decades ago.... It's just a matter of time... Ever since the times of Ghazali, traditionalists and orthodox Muslims have been anti-science and anti-progress... They always have failed to halt the progress of Muslims but they make it slower and difficult.[/QUOTE]
If you don’t need to, then don’t start your arguments afresh.