Question 107) - What is second dawn?

A: When night is nearly over you will find a vertical line like a pillar in the eastern horizon. That is the first or false or vertical dawn.

Thereafter darkness covers the horizon. After the darkness a horizontal line of light arises in the eastern horizon and gradually increases. The

horizontal light is the second or true dawn. It is also calved the straightening dawn and the horizontal dawn.

~ al-Quduri ~