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Flower blooms when hearing the Athan in Azerbaijan
- Thread starter Godobeyer
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Wish they gave the scientific name of the plant, but I think it's an evening primrose (Oenothera spp). Species in this genus are known for opening quickly in the evening (they are moth pollinated) and then closing back up in the morning. Given Islamic prayers happen at specific times of the day like clockwork, the coincidence is... well... coincidence.
(sorry, botany is one of my specialities... I couldn't resist)
(sorry, botany is one of my specialities... I couldn't resist)
Really, is that your explanation !!Wish they gave the scientific name of the plant, but I think it's an evening primrose (Oenothera spp). Species in this genus are known for opening quickly in the evening (they are moth pollinated) and then closing back up in the morning. Given Islamic prayers happen at specific times of the day like clockwork, the coincidence is... well... coincidence.
(sorry, botany is one of my specialities... I couldn't resist)
Coincidence everyday, 5 times a day , and every prayer calling ?!!
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Not good exemple.When I was in India, the people I stayed with had a dog that would howl whenever the adhan came - we thought it might have been a Muslim in a past life
Animals,not like plant
FearGod
Freedom Of Mind
Wish they gave the scientific name of the plant, but I think it's an evening primrose (Oenothera spp). Species in this genus are known for opening quickly in the evening (they are moth pollinated) and then closing back up in the morning. Given Islamic prayers happen at specific times of the day like clockwork, the coincidence is... well... coincidence.
(sorry, botany is one of my specialities... I couldn't resist)
How by coincidence if it opens in each prayer time, sunrise, morning, sunset and evening.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
That makes only four times. What about the fifth?
Fajr, Zuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha.
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FearGod
Freedom Of Mind
So you think it was a very ordinary phenomenon and the CNN reporters were idiots,
in the video we saw the flower blooms in the sunset prayer then it closes up to blooms
once again in the evening and then it'll close up and so on, so it blooms and closes up
several times a day and in the time of each prayer.
FearGod
Freedom Of Mind
The Asr is between noon(Zuhr) and sunset(Maghrib),
I don't know what is the timing for Asr in English.
Maybe, or maybe something to do with the devotion of the adhan impacted the plant's energy.
We just don't have that much info here. Only showed it for Maghrib and Isha on the video though!
The video provides no convincing evidence of this at all. There is no data presented about times of day of frequency. There's also no data presented about whether or not this same response would be observed with or without Islamic prayers, or with or without any sort of human vocalization in various languages. It is a nice story that holds meaning for certain people, but the story is unsupported by any data. Point me in the direction of an academic study proving this phenomena and I'll reconsider the assessment. It would be very easy to design and conduct an experiment for this.
Honestly, if this were a story claiming a flower opens to Pagan invocations to Flora (which makes a lot more sense, IMHO), I'd do a "yeah, right" too.
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
We have a spring in India in which water flows when it hears adhan, five times a day.
(Of course, it is connected to an over-head tank).
(Of course, it is connected to an over-head tank).
I knew it. I knew it to be that in some way or the other.
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