Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Moonsighting Issues

Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
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The speaker discusses the importance of educating oneself on the " assured" issue of following Saudi Arabia's laws and regulations. They suggest studying the material and researching it to become more aware of what is happening. The speaker also mentions upcoming seminars and taking longer lectures to become more confident in learning.
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I celebrated Eid on Tuesday, mubarak to you.

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After the moon was sighted in London, I

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have been told to make a qadha fast.

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Do I need to make a qadha fast?

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You only have to make, I think what

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you need to do is stop asking these

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questions and go and educate yourself on what

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the whole issue is about.

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Otherwise you're just going to be, one side

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is going to tell you to do one

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thing and the other side is going to

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tell you to do something else.

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And that's confusing.

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So what people need to seriously do, especially

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in this masjid, because we have a significant

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amount on one side, we have a significant

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amount on the other side, and I think

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we need to take this seriously, and we

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can't keep burying our heads in the sand.

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So I think what everybody should do, including

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the women, is to actually go and research

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the matter.

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That's your responsibility as a Muslim, to go

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and research the matter of something that is

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convenient.

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Clearly, by your example, by your question, it

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

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the matter is.

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So you go and you study this, and

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I'm not going to tell you which way

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is the better way, I'm not going to

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mention that to you.

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Because I want you to go and study

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

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then you will know whether you need to

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make a qadha or not.

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You will know whether you need to make

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a qadha or not.

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So that's what you should do, you should

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go and study, look at the stuff on

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Wifaq ul-Ulema, because they have a lot

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of the material that speaks about not following

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Saudi, and I'm not sure where the material

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

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you guys know where that material is?

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Right, so I don't know where that material

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is, you can look for it, you can

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ask those who follow that.

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So what you need to do is you

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need to figure this out, you need to

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understand it.

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And there are seminars that people hold, and

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there are seminars online about this thing as

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well, to understand what it is.

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And then if you decide that, you know,

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that's basically what I would suggest that you

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do.

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Because basically if people think it's completely fine

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to follow Saudi, they don't need to make

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a qadha.

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And if people who think that it was

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a problematic sighting, and they should not follow

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Saudi, they should follow others, then that person

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should make a qadha if they celebrate it

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on Tuesday.

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The point of a lecture is to encourage

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people to act, to get further, an inspiration,

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an encouragement, persuasion.

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The next step is to actually start learning

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seriously, to read books, to take on a

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subject of Islam, and to understand all the

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subjects of Islam, at least at their basic

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level, so that we can become more aware

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of what our deen wants from us.

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And that's why we started Rayyan courses, so

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that you can actually take organized lectures on

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demand whenever you have free time, especially for

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example, the Islamic essentials course that we have

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on there, the Islamic essentials certificate, which you

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take 20 short modules, and at the end

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of that, inshallah, you will have gotten the

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basics of most of the most important topics

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in Islam, and you'll feel a lot more

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confident.

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You don't have to leave lectures behind, you

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can continue to listen to lectures, but you

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need to have this more sustained study as

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well.

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Jazakallah Khair, Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

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