Mirza Yawar Baig – Sighting or calculation
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The importance of Islam is highlighted, including the need for everyone to acknowledge its truthfulness and the negative impact of actions and speech on one's faith and liability. The speaker also discusses the confusion surrounding Islam's deception and the importance of learning from the book and guidance. The speaker emphasizes the importance of living life as if Islam is complete and sees everything in real time, including looking at the moon's visible light. Additionally, the speaker suggests breaking fasting on the new moon to calculate the beginning and end of the month, and emphasizes the importance of evidence from the Quran and Sun wakha to confirm the date of the month.AI: Transcript ©
Our deen Islam is based on one thing
only, I.
E. Trust in the truthfulness of our Prophet
Muhammad
We believe that the Ayat of the Quran
are the speech of Allah
because
Muhammad said so.
That is why we treat the Hadis of
Rasool
with so much reverence
because they were also said by the same
person that is Muhammad
who recited for us the word of Allah.
It is a measure of the
measure and proof
of his truthfulness that he never claimed his
speech
to be the word of Allah. Even
though Allah said about the speech of Muhammad
Allah said nor does he speak
of his own volition.
It is only a revelation
sent to him.
Allah
commanded us believers
to obey Muhammad unquestioningly.
Allah
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said, which means whatever
the messenger gives you, take it and whatever
he forbids you from leave it and fear
Allah.
Surely Allah
is severe in punishment.
Allah
did not restrict
obedience to Rasulullah
SAW
to worship alone
or to anything else alone.
He gave a blanket command and ordered us
to obey Rasool SAW in every matter
and it is only obedience which makes us
Muslims.
Finally,
for the purpose of our discussion here,
Allah declared on oath by himself
that we can't have faith, that we have
no faith until we accept the rulings of
Rasool Allah
in all matters
wholeheartedly
without any resistance to them in our hearts.
Allah
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, but know by
your rub, that is Allah is saying by
himself,
but know by your rub, they will never
be believers
until they accept you, O Prophet Mohammad
as the judge in their disputes and find
no resistance
within themselves
against your decision and submit wholeheartedly.
Based on this, I want to draw your
attention to one very simple fact which is
that in normal circumstances
it is actions
and or speech
which determine
that a sin has been committed.
If you think about a sin, if you
feel that desire in your heart, but you
do not put that desire
into words or
take action on that desire, then you are
not
punishable for the desire,
except in this case,
except where
we have not spoken against Rasool Allah, we
have not acted against him, but in the
heart, there is resistance
to his command.
There is a desire to disobey him.
There is,
a dislike for what he has said. Allah
said, if that is the case, even if
it is in your heart, if that is
the case,
then you are you have no faith.
Right? You are not a Muslim. You have
no faith.
Based on this, our scholars from the Saabah
onwards
have
always taken the position
that anyone
who denies
a single hadith, a Sahih
hadith or refuses to accept
a single ruling of Rasool
has committed cover and has left Islam.
That is the light in which we will
see the following Hadith of Rasool
Abu
Amar reported
that Rasool Allah
said, Whoever does not desire my Sunnah
is not a part of me.
And this is in sunnah. Sunan, even I
asked him and it's a hadith.
For those who love
Muhammad
and emulate him,
make his Allah
provides a great reward.
Allah said,
O Prophet Muhammad
tell the people,
if you sincerely love Allah,
then follow me, then emulate me.
Then what will happen?
Allah will love you
and forgive your sins for Allah is all
forgiving, most merciful.
We ask
Allah to make us among those who
are always in
finally, Allah said
about this deen of ours
Allah said today I have perfected your
faith for you,
completed my favor upon you and chosen Islam
as your way.
Now, about when this Ayah was revealed, we
have the narration
where a Jew
said to
leader of the believers,
there is an ayah in your book. There
is an ayah in the Quran,
which is read by all of you Muslims
and had it been
revealed to us that as Jews, we would
have taken that day on which it was
revealed as a day of Eid, day of
celebration.
He asked him which is
that? The man replied
This day I have perfected
your religion for you, completed my favor upon
you, and I've chosen for you
Islam as your religion.
Replied,
no doubt. We know when and where this
ayah was revealed to Rasulullah
It was the day he was standing at
Arafa
and that day was a Friday.
So
it is there are both
are
both are each. We have 2 each.
This is evidence
that the aya declaring that Islam is complete
was revealed on Yawul Al Arafah, which is
in 9th of Zul Hijjah. Therefore, it is
a part of our creed
to believe Islam to be complete
and to believe that Rasool
completed his responsibility of conveying the message of
Islam by word and deed,
by teaching it
and demonstrating it in his own blessed life.
We believe that he did not leave anything
out, and so there is no scope for
anyone
to add anything or change anything in Islam.
Rasulullah
shut the door to all innovations in Islam
and declared that all innovation is misguidance
and will be in the hellfire.
We hear this hadith in almost every Jumah
in every Masjid.
Anjabirimni
Abdullah
radiAllahu Anumakaala
Allah reported that Rasool Allah would praise Allah
SWT
in his speech, in his servant, in his
Khutba
as he deserves to be praised and then
he would say:
Whomever Allah guides, no one can lead him
astray,
whomever Allah allows to go astray,
no one can guide him. The truest word
is the book of Allah
and the best guidance is the guidance of
Muhammad
The most evil of matters in religion
are those that are newly invented
for every
newly invented matter
is an innovation.
Every innovation is misguided
and every misguidance is in the hellfire. And
this is in Surah Al Asahi and it's
Sahih Hadith.
On the important site in the moon, we
have many hadith.
One of which,
let me
narrate for you that hadith.
One of them is that
reported, I came to Syria
and tended to my needs. The crescent of
Ramadan appeared over me while I was in
Syria,
and I saw it on Friday.
Then I came to Madinah at the end
of the month.
Asked me about it
and I mentioned
the crescent.
So
said, when did you see it? I said,
we saw it on Friday night.
Said, you saw it? I said, yes.
People saw it and they fasted as did
But we saw it on Saturday.
We saw it on Saturday night. So we
will continue fasting until we complete 30 days
or we see it meaning if you see
it on the night of 29th.
I said
that is correct.
He said, I said, is it not enough
that saw it and he fasted?
Said,
no. Such was the command of the messenger
of Allah
such was a command of
He said the people of knowledge act upon
this hadith that the people of every land
have their own moon sighting.
It's not that one moon sighting for the
whole world. This was not how the Sahaba
saw it. This was not how
the people of knowledge
even after them
how they saw
it. Now, the statement of is
based on the command of
Rasulullah who commanded us
to see the new moon and start the
new month. And if the sky
was cloudy
and we couldn't see the new moon than
to complete 30 days of the current month.
We believe in Islam and we believe Rasool
and obey him
unquestioningly
as a mark of being Muslim.
Reported
that
said,
start fasting on citing it. That is a
new
moon and break your fast on sighting
it. That is the new moon of.
But if the sky
is cloudy for you, then complete the month
number of 30. That is 30 fast of
Ramadan.
And this
is a hadith in Sahih Muslim and it's
a Sahih Hadith.
We also know
and understand this to be a fundamental principle
in Islam, in the Sharia,
that Rasool
used to answer questions as asked,
but his answer applies to everything in that
context.
The evidence for this is the famous Hadid
Jibril,
which is one of the most important, it's
considered to be 1 third of the Deeb
in Islam
narrated by Umar ibn al Khattam
and others where
Rasool defined
al Ihsar, excellence,
in terms of salah.
But we know that the definition is not
restricted to salah
but extends to every transaction in life. We
must live our lives as if we can
see Allah and know that Allah
is with us in real time
and sees and hears and knows everything we
say or do.
The studies I'm taking extract from it.
So this man said, and
that man was in
a human form.
The man asked, You Rasulullah
what is hisaab?
Excellence. Rasulullah
said, hisaab
is to worship Allah
as if you can see.
And if you do not achieve that, if
you do not achieve that level of devotion,
if you cannot see Him,
know
that Allah sees you.
So, though Rasool
mentioned the sighting of the moon with respect
to starting and stopping of fasting, all our
scholars have agreed and stated
that the principle of sighting the moon to
calculate the beginning and end of the month
applies to every month and not to Ramadan
alone.
Therefore, when Rasool
stood in and he asked the people
and rhetorically speaking,
what day it was?
And then he replied because they said Allah
and his Nabi know the best
know best he replied
and said the date was
9,000.
So how did he arrive at that? He
counted from the day he sighted the new
moon of.
He did not use astronomical calculations or calendars
to determine the date of the month.
If he had wanted to, he could have
because lunar calendars have been in existence for
83,000
years.
The fact that he neither used them nor
commanded or permitted people to use astronomical calculations
to determine the beginning of the month shows
us that this is a spiritual matter
and not a matter of scientific calculations
or convenience.
The fact that he made a specific declaration
about moon sighting to begin the month binds
us to his command and does not give
us the freedom to use
different methods to calculate
as we do with respect to the time
of daily prayers.
In the in in case of the daily
5 Sarawat, we don't measure shadows. We use
clocks, but with respect to sighting the moon
to begin the month, that is a specific
command and so must be followed
and not changed or ignored.
Finally,
did not command us to
synchronize our date with Mecca or Madinah.
And so those who insist on following Saudi
Arabia must provide proof
for their insistence.
In Islam, every matter must have a Dalit
evidence and the only
pieces of evidence that are acceptable in matters
of worship are Ayat of the Quran
and or Hadith of Rasulullah
If we don't do that, if you cannot
have that
what do you call this? If you can't
have that kind of
evidence,
then to do something
based on whatever logic appears reasonable to us
in matters of worship is a biddah
and innovation
and we know what Rasool Allah SWALLAM said
about that.
In the light of all the above evidence
in the Quran and Sunnah, I submit
that the best, even only permissible
way to calculate the beginning of the month
and its end is by sighting the moon.
Citing
by a reliable
practicing Muslim who is on the sunnah
is acceptable for a region. The exact extent
of the region is left to local leaders
and scholars to the German.
There is no evidence to
show that using astronomical calculations to calculate the
beginning
of the month for religious purposes
is a Surla
or was permitted by Allah
or His messenger that is there is no
ayah or hadith permitting this.
Finally,
there is a specific hadith and more than
one commanding us to side the moon and
start or end the month
to ignore that command and use calculation
because that is more,
convenient
would be to reject the Sahih Hadith
and that is Kufar
Let us remember that when Rasool Allah commanded
us to do something this was because Allah
commanded him to do that.
In this
is benefit for us
even if we may not see it sometimes.
That is
Islam.
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