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The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee (Ruet-e-Hilal Committee) has a strong religious influence in the program, concerning the matter of moon sighting for the observances of religious holidays. [12] The Ruet-e-Hilal Committee , headed by its government appointed chairman, is assisted by the officials of Pakistan Meteorological Department , SUPARCO ...
Controversies over Moon sighting have noted been in Muslim history since the Middle Ages.Al Majmu, a treatise written by the 13th century Arab scholar Muhyi ad-Din Yahya al-Nawawi, shows the founders of various Islamic schools of jurisprudence, including Imam Shafi and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, respectively from the eighth and ninth centuries, to have expressed different opinions on the issue.
Eid al-Fitr, which means feast, will be celebrated in Pakistan on Wednesday, subject to sighting of the moon. The three-day holiday marks the end of Ramadan , Islam’s holy month of fasting.
Chaand Raat is a time of celebration when families and friends gather in open areas at the end of the last day of Ramadan to spot the new moon, which signals the arrival of the Islamic month of Shawwal and the day of Eid. Once the moon is sighted, people wish each other Eid Mubarak ("Blessings of the Eid day").
For this reason, on the 29th night of Ramadan, Muslims carry out a tradition called "moon sighting." The moon is sighted with the naked eye, and if the new moon appears, it means the next day Eid ...
Moon sighting (Arabic: رؤية الهلال) refers to the act of observing a new crescent moon and is one of the ways to determine the beginning of a lunar month in religion. [ 1 ] [ better source needed ] On the Islamic calendar , a month begins with the sighting of the new crescent moon, meaning astronomy is a key part of Islamic events and ...
While it can vary based on moon sightings in different parts of the world, this year Eid al-Adha is predicted to begin at sunset on June 16, 2024, according to Islamic Relief Worldwide.
Eid al-Fitr begins at sunset on the night of the first sighting of the crescent moon. The night on which the moon is sighted is celebrated as Chand Raat in countries like Bangladesh .