Mirza Yawar Baig – Why must we sight the moon in USA
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The sun is seen as the presence of the presence of the sun in the UK, not personal sighting. The speaker advises against praying during the time of sunrise and emphasizes the importance of following Islam rules, including fasting and the deenzie of the Hadith. The focus should not be on individual actions, but rather on the group's actions. wake-upting is key to learning to stop these arguments and questions.AI: Transcript ©
My brothers and sisters, one of my dear
friends asked me a question. He said, we
do not have Hajj in USA,
so why do we go with the moon
in USA? He is referring to moon sighting
locally.
Now the answer to this is
that
the monastic of Hajj,
the rituals of Hajj,
like standing in Al Arafa, Rami Jammarath, and
so on, are
according
to the time and the place
of that place.
Right?
But the sighting of the moon is to
be done
from where you are. It's not a question
of the moon in USA. The moon is
not in USA. You're seeing it from where
you are, in this case, the USA,
and starting the month
because
of your sighting of the moon.
And that is because of the result of
because of the hadith of Rasulullah
where he told us to see
see
the moon and start the month or to
complete 30 days if it is cloudy and
you cannot see the moon.
We follow the hadith because we are people
who say, Savannah or.
We hear and we obey.
We hear and we obey.
The Hadith
is an
mentioned
Ramadan, and he said that Rasulullah
said, do not start fasting unless you see
the crescent of the moon of Ramadan and
do not give up fasting till you see
the crescent of Shawwal.
But if the sky is overcast,
then count 30 days of,
Shaba.
Right? So
when you're starting the month, count 30 days
of Shaba. And in another haveith,
and
for.
He said
reported that
said,
start fasting on sighting it, that is the
new moon,
and break your fast on sighting it. But
if the sky is cloudy for you, then
complete the number of 30.
He said complete the number of 30. Now
these hadith relate to Ramadan, but the same
principle applies to all the months, whether it
is Ramadan or not.
The principle is that we start the month
after seeing the moon and we stop the
month after seeing the moon. If there is
a difference
difficulty with that, obviously, 29 days, we fast
we count anyway.
The 30th day, we count if we do
not see the moon, if it is cloudy
or whatnot, then we can
count the finished 30 days, and then we
start the next month.
In this case,
in the case of Ramadan Ramadan.
Now
what will suffice as a local
sighting?
It can be anything. For example, somebody might
say, well, I
will, or or a group. It's not an
individual person, but a group can say that
we will start fasting and so on and
so forth if we see
in our town or in our
city. This is perfectly permissible in Islam. Please
don't think that they are fools. They're not
fools. They are following what they understand.
But somebody might say a bigger area, which
is, say, okay, in this country, in this
particular
part of geography.
But you cannot say,
we will start fasting,
or we will start the month when people
see the moon in Australia.
Doesn't make any sense.
Time zones are different. Made
the time zones to be different. We don't
start fast. We don't start praying.
This is a question that was asked to
Sheikh Alusayim,
They asked him about fasting.
So he asked him a question back in
answer. He said, when do you pray? They
asked him they they said, should we follow
Saudi Arabia?
He said,
when you are praying, when you pray
when do you pray salatul fajr? When it
is being prayed in the Haram or when
it is when you are pray or when
it is time for fajr in your country?
They said time for fajr in our country.
He said, why don't you follow Saudi Arabia
then?
Because by the time if you are in
America,
by the time it is further in,
Saudi Arabia, it is still dark in America.
So will you pray Fajr in the middle
of the night because they are praying in
the in Mecca? No.
You you follow
for the day,
you follow
the sun
in terms of
the sun sets the time, the hours of
the day.
Similarly, the moon
sets
the the days of the month.
So, therefore, just as you do not follow
Saudi Arabia with respect to your daily
salah, similarly, you do not follow Saudi Arabia
or any country for that matter. This has
nothing to do with Saudi Arabia. We're talking
about any country, but we are saying Saudi
because that's what people normally say.
So we should don't follow Saudi, not because
of Saudi, but because
we don't follow any other country
in some other time zone
with regard to our daily prayers,
similarly, we don't do that with regard to
the months.
You follow the time or the day when
it is that day in your country. You
don't follow it and you don't do it
whenever, you know, it it is that day
in some other country.
Finally, very important,
thing to remember
about the Hadith
is that,
is this, beautiful and really
frightening Hadith
where, Anadillah
ibn Umar Radiallahu Anumah
Kal. Kalah Rasulullah, hissalam,
Man Ragiba and Sunati Falais Amini.
I don't want to stand before Allah
on the day of judgment
and be told
move from here because you are not a
part of of Rasulullah, you're not a part
of Zumba because you deliberately went against his
hadith.
He had told you to do something, and
you chose to do something
else. Because in your
head, you conjecture you you you conjecture and
you said, this is more convenient or this
is more logical or this is more sensible.
We follow a deen which is based on.
We follow a deen which is based on,
the unknown, the unseen, the unperceivable.
Let us remember that.
When they came to
with news that Rasulullah Sallam had said that
he had traveled in Israel from,
Masjid Al Haram to Masjid Al Aqsa
and,
onwards up into the heavens.
And, they asked him, so he said,
if he said that, I believe it.
And that's the principle of authentication of Hadith.
If he said that, we believe it.
So they asked him. They said, how can
you believe something which seems to be so
impossible,
so illogical?
He said, we already believe more than that.
He said, what is that? He said, we
believe in Allah. Have you seen Allah? We
believe in Jannah. Have you seen Jannah? We
believe in Jahannam. Have you seen Jahannam? We
believe in the day of judgment. Have you
seen the day of judgment? He said, we
have we believe already in this deen, in
things which are,
far more
within courts impossible according to us than going
from
Makkah to Madinah,
Makkah to, Al Aqsa,
in, and and returning in one day.
I mean, what just think about that. Today,
we can do it physically.
Right? In those days, they could not do
it physically, so he's saying we already believe.
What does he mean? He said we believe
in al Ghayb.
We believe because Rasulullah hessalahu alaihi wa sallam
told us.
There's no other reason.
So what's the problem with following the hadith
as far as moon sighting is concerned? Why
must we have this completely ridiculous,
argument every single month, every single year,
year after year?
Please, I think it's time we should really,
you know, wake up and grow up
and and stop having these, ridiculous arguments and
and ridiculous questions. There there's no need for
this.
The Nabi alaihis salam said, see the moon
and start, see the moon and stop. So
let us see the moon and start, let
us see the moon and stop.
Right?
All of these things
are matters of.
These are things which
are matters of worship.
We do them because we have been commanded,
not because it appears to be logical or
or convenient or whatever.
So this is the essence of Islam, and
this is a deen which is based on.
Right? So let's try to let us try
to remember that, and let's try to do
something which is beneficial for us in the
dunya.
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