Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Why do We Follow Saudi for Moon Sighting
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Why is it that we always tend to follow Saudi Arabia for the moon
sighting, even though we know there is some controversy
regarding this their source of information that you will have to
for that, you'll have to actually ask the people that follow Saudi
Arabia for that, ask them their reasons. Personally, that's not my
opinion, though. For the sake of unity, I will do eight with
everybody else, because I was an imam in the masjid that followed
Saudi, so then I would do that just for the sake of unity. But
why they do it, that's something that you have to ask the people
who, personally the reason is that initially, many, many years ago,
they used to follow Morocco. But at that time, communication was
complicated. And they wouldn't receive information quick enough.
Then slowly, slowly, more and more people started going for Amara,
during the month of Ramadan and for Hajj, and communication became
easier, three years, three hours before is where they were, you
know, their sunset is. So people started saying, Oh, we're doing
Ramadan, here, we're doing Ramadan, you know, it's eat
tomorrow, it's the moon has been seen here. So they've, they
started following that. And now it's very difficult for most
people to change, there is a increasing movement to move away
from Saudi Arabia. But at the end of the day, it's going to take a
while what you have to realize, just from a social perspective, is
that when people have been following something for a very,
very long time, it's very difficult to make that change. And
mostly, you can never make a change, especially when you're not
living in an Islamic Heroku Islamic rule where they could
implement whatever they want. It's a case where everybody has the
right to do what they want. So they exercise that, right. So if
they've been all following the same thing for many, many years,
and now for them to be told that you're totally wrong, it puts into
question all the previous years, it's very difficult for a lot of
people to handle. And then some of the people unfortunately, that are
pushing and encouraging the idea that we need to move away from
Saudi Arabia, they're sometimes they go very extreme in the way
they do this. So it puts the other people off and it just makes them
more defensive and makes them dig their heels further into the
ground. So I do have seen though, I have seen though, that it's just
slowly slowly it is moving towards you know, looking for the first
credible Moon sighting wherever it be from the world. And it's going
to take a while though. It's going to take a while for that to come
in. If it ever if it does, inshallah.