Can eat, drink, shave during the time of solar or lunar eclipse? after the solar or lunar eclipse is over, ?

Question

must have a shower? then onwards can proceed to normal eating/drinking/shaving etc just like any other day?

Answer 1

we can only eat drink or shave 2 times a year?

Answer 2

You can go about your normal activities during the eclipse, and if you don't need a shower before it, then you won't need one after it, unless you happen to fall into a mud puddle or something.

Answer 3

You can't. You'll miss the eclipse. (that if you can't see/film it from your bathroom). Eating and drinking = no problem.

Never heard of such a silly superstition.

Answer 4

I never heard of this, and would really like to know where you got this information, and what you think would actually happen if you did any of these things during an eclipse.

Answer 5

You can't, it's forbidden by law in 37 states.

Answer 6

What are you talking about?

Answer 7

sure.. why not?  Does this only apply to full eclipse?  Or eclipse anywhere in the world?  or if eclipse only visible where you are?

Evidently, you have omitted an important part of the question you are asking....such as "during a religious holiday" or "based on the rules for the club to which I belong..."

Try rewriting your question??

Answer 8

Hi Ram,

That would be a most interesting question, if a total eclipse of the sun could occur during Ramadan!  I'd be interested to hear an Islamic scholar come take a crack at that one, if the Ramadan fast could be interrupted during a total eclipse of the sun.

I don't think a total eclipse of the sun could occur during Ramadan though.  Ramadan is a lunar month, and it begins and ends at new moon.  

If Ramadan begins with a new moon, then, of course, the fast has not begun yet, so there's nothing yet to interrupt.

If a total eclipse of the sun marks the end of Ramadan, that might be more problematic.  Typically, Eid does not start at the astronomical instant of the new moon, but at the time when Cairo sees the next new moon, usually about a day later.  If there were a total eclipse of the sun, then of course one could hardly deny the physical sighting of the new moon.  Would Ramadan end at that moment?  Or do the faithful wait until there has been a lunar sighting a day later?