Finland: Northern Lights

Omdz subhanallah those green lights are soo cool.. I wanna go Finland
 
Insha'Allah I will visit Finland and the rest of Scandinavia one day. I have good friends in Sweden, have been fascinated with Norway since I was a kid (blame the musical group a-ha), and used to take a class on Danish culture when I was in elementary school.
 
Subhan'Allah.

Beautiful. Words cannot describe it.

I was looking at some pictures of different galaxies, solar systems and planets. Subhan'Allah I don't think I've ever seen something more stunning. Left me in awe of Allah SWT and his creation.

We can't even begin to comprehend the beauty of Jannah.

May Allah grant us all a place in Jannatul Firdaus, Ameen.
 
Sister Herb, you are so lucky. I've seen the aurora borealis on a documentary once and have always wanted to see it in person. One day, I will.

Are you able to look at it when it happens?
 
anatolian said:
Can you see these lights with naked eyes or is it only captured by the camera?
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They are visible with naked eyes and look just same like when filming them. This film is captured as the time-laps technic, so in the nature they are slower. It usually looks like the wavy flames on the sky. At the northern parts of the Finland they are stronger, here is south (where I live) they are quite rare and usually much more pale. Occasionally they might be strong here too.
 
hisnameiszzz said:
Sister Herb, you are so lucky. I've seen the aurora borealis on a documentary once and have always wanted to see it in person. One day, I will.

Are you able to look at it when it happens?
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Yes. Unfortunately they are quite pale and rare here in south Finland. At the north Finland they are more common and stronger.
 
Finland is great to mu'min in winter because we have short days during winter so it's easy to fast and it's cold here so you don't sweat :)
 
yeah, wait til the summer is here and ramadhan too, then you'll be packing again lol. 21 hour fasts are LONG.

Scimi
 
Scimitar said:
yeah, wait til the summer is here and ramadhan too, then you'll be packing again lol. 21 hour fasts are LONG.

Scimi
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But wait when ramadan is at the winter - then day takes only 5 to 6 hours, at the north even less. :shade:
 
sister herb said:
But wait when ramadan is at the winter - then day takes only 5 to 6 hours, at the north even less. :shade:
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extremities... I did joke back in the day how I'd love to do ramadhan in a nation which saw very little daylight lol. But then again, I'm not that far from Finland so when you have short days, so do we - just not as short.

Scimi
 
If you stay in Inari where that video was from, there isn´t daylight at all at this time of the year. The polar night is about 50 days. However, at the mid summer there isn´t nights at all and this makes fasting quite impossible if using the local times. The polar day is normally for 74 days.

Naturally Muslims whose live so up north can´t use the local times for the fasting.
 
There is an easiness with every hardship. It is too cold in the north in winter but the day is too short and the day too long in summer but the weather is warmy. It is vice versa for the south. :)
 
sister herb said:
If you stay in Inari where that video was from, there isn´t daylight at all at this time of the year. The polar night is about 50 days. However, at the mid summer there isn´t nights at all and this makes fasting quite impossible if using the local times. The polar day is normally for 74 days.

Naturally Muslims whose live so up north can´t use the local times for the fasting.
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Ya know, I did wonder about the way daylight (and night time) is perpetual for extremely long periods of time in the polar regions of our planet. But I never wondered how that would affect Muslims in Ramadhan...

Mute the music, and watch this:


Looks like something out of a sci fi fantasy novelette. Muslim friendly? Maybe the people are, but the weather deffo aint lol

Scimi
 
Assalamu alaikum

Hopefully I'll be coming to Finland end Dec. Which month does the northern lights occur in?

Gonna be staying in airbnb for a few days at Tampere till I get school accomodation on Jan.

Around what time does the khutbah start on Fridays? Are there many places in Tmp that people go to for congregational prayers?

Also what are the must see places there? I'm gonna be staying there for quite a bit.
 

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