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Praise be to Allaah.
Islam is easy and its rules apply to everyone, mankind and jinn alike,
regardless of whether they are scholars or illiterate, settled or nomadic. So Allaah made
it easy for them to know the times for the acts of worship, and made their beginning and
end signs which everyone can know. He made the setting of the sun the sign for the
beginning of Maghrib and the end of ‘Asr, and He made the disappearance of the red
glow in the sky the sign of the beginning of the time of ‘Isha’. He made the
sighting of the moon after its disappearance at the end of the month the sign of the
beginning of the new lunar month and the end of the previous month. He did not give us the
task of knowing the beginning of the lunar month from something which is known to only a
small number of people, namely astronomy and its calculations. Thus the texts of the
Qur’aan and Sunnah make the actual sighting of the new moon the signal for the
Muslims to start fasting Ramadaan; they stop fasting when they see the new moon of
Shawwaal; the dates of Eid al-Adhaa and Yawm ‘Arafaat are similarly determined.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meanings):
“… So whoever among you sights (the crescent on the first
night of) the month (of Ramadaan), he must observe sawm (fast) that month…”
[al-Baqarah 2:185]
“They ask you (O Muhammad) about the new moons. Say: these are
signs to mark fixed periods of time for mankind and for the pilgrimage…”
[al-Baqarah 2:189]
The Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“Fast when you see it [the new moon] and stop fasting when you see it, and if it is
cloudy then complete the month with thirty days.”
The Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) made the
beginning of the fast conditional upon the confirmed sighting of the new moon of Ramadaan,
and the ending of the fast conditional upon the confirmed sighting of the new moon of
Shawwaal; he did not connect this to calculations of the movements of stars or other
heavenly bodies. This is how it was done at the time of the Prophet
(peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him), during the rule of the Khulafa’ al-Raashidoon, at
the time of the four imaams, and during the three centuries which the Prophet
(peace
and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said were the best. Referring to calculations of the
lunar months to start and end periods of worship, instead of actually sighting the new
moon, is a bid’ah (reprehensible innovation) that has no good in it and has no basis
in sharee’ah. The best of all is to follow the salaf in religious matters, and the
worst of all is to follow newly-invented innovations in religion. May Allaah protect us
and you and all the Muslims from tribulation, both obvious and hidden.
