Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Moonsighting Issues

I celebrated Eid on Tuesday, mubarak to you.

After the moon was sighted in London, I

have been told to make a qadha fast.

Do I need to make a qadha fast?

You only have to make, I think what

you need to do is stop asking these

questions and go and educate yourself on what

the whole issue is about.

Otherwise you're just going to be, one side

is going to tell you to do one

thing and the other side is going to

tell you to do something else.

And that's confusing.

So what people need to seriously do, especially

in this masjid, because we have a significant

amount on one side, we have a significant

amount on the other side, and I think

we need to take this seriously, and we

can't keep burying our heads in the sand.

So I think what everybody should do, including

the women, is to actually go and research

the matter.

That's your responsibility as a Muslim, to go

and research the matter of something that is

convenient.

Clearly, by your example, by your question, it

shows you're confused, you don't really know what

the matter is.

So you go and you study this, and

I'm not going to tell you which way

is the better way, I'm not going to

mention that to you.

Because I want you to go and study

this, and after you've objectively studied both sides,

then you will know whether you need to

make a qadha or not.

You will know whether you need to make

a qadha or not.

So that's what you should do, you should

go and study, look at the stuff on

Wifaq ul-Ulema, because they have a lot

of the material that speaks about not following

Saudi, and I'm not sure where the material

is in following Saudi, I don't know, do

you guys know where that material is?

Right, so I don't know where that material

is, you can look for it, you can

ask those who follow that.

So what you need to do is you

need to figure this out, you need to

understand it.

And there are seminars that people hold, and

there are seminars online about this thing as

well, to understand what it is.

And then if you decide that, you know,

that's basically what I would suggest that you

do.

Because basically if people think it's completely fine

to follow Saudi, they don't need to make

a qadha.

And if people who think that it was

a problematic sighting, and they should not follow

Saudi, they should follow others, then that person

should make a qadha if they celebrate it

on Tuesday.

The point of a lecture is to encourage

people to act, to get further, an inspiration,

an encouragement, persuasion.

The next step is to actually start learning

seriously, to read books, to take on a

subject of Islam, and to understand all the

subjects of Islam, at least at their basic

level, so that we can become more aware

of what our deen wants from us.

And that's why we started Rayyan courses, so

that you can actually take organized lectures on

demand whenever you have free time, especially for

example, the Islamic essentials course that we have

on there, the Islamic essentials certificate, which you

take 20 short modules, and at the end

of that, inshallah, you will have gotten the

basics of most of the most important topics

in Islam, and you'll feel a lot more

confident.

You don't have to leave lectures behind, you

can continue to listen to lectures, but you

need to have this more sustained study as

well.

Jazakallah Khair, Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh