Moon Sighting - رؤية الهلال
Our community makes effort throughout the year to maintain the Sunnah of sighting the crescent moon (hilal) in order to establish the beginnings of Islamic months. An archive history of moon sighting results is maintained here.
Recent Announcements
Shawwal 1446 - March 31, 2025 • (بداية شهر شوال لسنة ١٤٤٦)
Eid-ul-Fitr and the first day of Shawwal 1446 AH will be Monday, March 31, 2025.
[More...]Ramadhan 1446 - March 1, 2025 • (بداية شهر رمضان لسنة ١٤٤٦)
First day of fasting for Ramadhan 1446 AH is Saturday, March 1, 2025.
[More...](View all calendar announcements here.)
شرائح العرض
Presentation
Presentations to the community were made in May 2017 to explain some of the issues surrounding moon sighting with respect to Ramadhan and the two Eids. Below are the slides, handouts, and recording of one of the sessions.
- Moon Sighting - Slides
- Handout (translations of ahadith)
Comments/questions/corrections regarding the presentation below are much appreciated. Please email us at: info@romeislam.us.
وصلات والمراجع
Links and Resources
(* Links below are provided for informational and reference purposes only and do not necessarily constitute endorsement or promotion of the linked site.)
- Hajj & Eid-ul-Adha
- Following Saudi Moonsighting is a Munkar and an open wrong | Jamiat Ulama-e-Britain
- Videos
- Documentary of Saudi Moon Sighting Issue Ruyat-e-Hilal (URDU language) | Allamah Maulana Samiruddin Qasmi 2017
- Additional videos posted by Wifaqul Ulama, UK
- Moonsighting Interview (Wifaqul-ulama, in English)
- Articles and Publications
- Moon Sighting by Shaykh Mohammed Ibrahim Memon, Darul Uloom Al Madania, USA
- Moonsighting (Ruyut-e-Hilal) articles by Mufti Muhammad Yusuf Danka, Croydon Mosque (UK).
- Do Saudi Scholars impose Saudi moon sighting on Non-Saudi residents?
- Determination of Eid al-Adha by Justice Maulana Mufti M. Taqi Usmani
- Ruyat-e-Hilal (Urdu) by Mufti-e-Azam Muhammad Shafi, Pakistan
- Caesarean Moon Births: Part 1 & Part 2, on the invalidity of using calculation to determine Islamic months, by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, USA
- Organizations
- Other
- Crescent visibility maps (also here)
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It is not possible to expect all the Muslims to start fasting at the same time
https://islamqa.info/ar/50487
https://islamqa.info/en/50487 -
Fasting with the moon sighting of the people of your country:
https://islamqa.info/ar/106487
https://islamqa.info/en/106487 -
Sighting the moon; not following calculation
https://islamqa.info/ar/1226
https://islamqa.info/en/1226 -
Follow day of Arafah for your country, not Saudi
https://islamqa.info/ar/40720
https://islamqa.info/en/40720 -
Day of Arafah is different for every country
https://islamqa.info/ar/140011
https://islamqa.info/en/140011 -
Ummul-Qura criterion: http://www.ummulqura.org.sa/president_address.aspx
"The Um Al-Qura calendar is both the formal and civil calendar of the Kingdom, but it may not match the actual visibility of the crescent which is necessary to start the religious months."