Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Moonsighting Issues
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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