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Eid moon sighted in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE

Oman says moon has not been sighted and will be celebrating Eid on Saturday

Web Desk July 16, 2015

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The Eidul Fitr moon has been sighted in Saudi Arabia, along with Qatar and UAE on Thursday evening, Express News reported.

The religious festival will now be celebrated on July 17 in the Middle East.

#EidMubarak Shawwal moon sighted in #Qatar pic.twitter.com/NgwwfAEHch
— Osama Bin Javaid (@osamabinjavaid) July 16, 2015

According to initial reports, Muslims in UK, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan will celebrate Eidul Fitr on Friday, whereas, Oman, Iraq and Bangladesh will be doing so on Saturday.

The government controlled Dubai media office confirmed in a belated fashion that the UAE will be celebrating Eid on Friday. The announcement was made after Saudi Arabia confirmed sighting the moon, the Khaleej Times said.

In Pakistan, the central Ruet-e-Hilal committee is expected to convene on Friday evening to sight the moon.

There were, however, reports that Mufti Shahabuddin Popalzai in Peshawar had convened a meeting of local leaders to sight the moon on Thursday evening.

#Eid Mubarak to you and your loved ones #Jordan #LoveJO pic.twitter.com/x9NpPMt6mh
— Rania Al Abdullah (@QueenRania) July 16, 2015

COMMENTS (16)

Milind | 9 years ago | Reply In this era of science & technology and atomic clocks, its easy to calculate the moonrise timings quite ahead of time. This is often done in Hinduism, where the rise & set timings of both the sun & moon (tied to rituals and breaking of fasts), are calculated for years in advance, while building the almanac. I fail to understand, why Muslims refuse to accept technology/modernity here, when they have accepted it in other areas (flying for Haj etc.)... This will further reduce the potential for further conflicts amongst egomaniac mullahs.

Syd | 9 years ago | Reply What a farce, they skipped a fast just to stick to their rhetoric. Six testimonies were received in a country of millions and when it was simply impossible to see the crescent through a reasonable telescope let alone naked eye. Those people might as well have witnessed a UFO it surely wasn't the moon. If Saudis want to rely on astronomical calculations they should say so, but claiming that they rely on actual testimonies and visibility is plain cheap and arrogant not to forget sinful.

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Imtiyaz | 9 years ago | Reply Eid mubarak to all Muslims in the world.

Hafiz | 9 years ago | Reply Happy mubarak to all those who celebrating to today

Zaid | 9 years ago | Reply Assalam alaikum wa rahmatulahi wa barakatu, alhamdulila the m00n has nt been sighted in south africa meaning we hav m0re time to fast and ask Allah for mercy and 4gvnes ,to the umaat that has sightd the moon eid mubaarak dnt w8 4 the next raamadan to do good assalam alaikum

Alaa | 9 years ago | Reply How did Suadies and Quataries sighted the moon. we even couldn't see it here in Australia. it is a an incorrect reporting and muslims should be aware of the fake sighting. the crescent birth was at 11:24am on Thursday and it requires at least 15 hours or more to be sighted by telescopes yet you need almost 20 hours or more to be sighted by human being. What a joke

mohd hussain | 9 years ago | Reply Eid mubarkh to all of you

Bharatiya from Oz | 9 years ago | Reply Eid mubarak to every one around the globe who celebrates being human; peace; diversity and prgoress...Ek Bharatiya from Oz

adeshine monsuur | 9 years ago | Reply please is't true that new moon has been sighted is some part northern side the nation.can we break as from tomorrow

Ch. Allah Daad | 9 years ago | Reply According to Moonsighting.com the moon of planet earth is visible (if conditions are perfect) only in some parts of South America on Thursday 16th of July. All those who saw moon of planet earth in other parts of the world esp. in middle east and Pakistan are lying.

the usual | 9 years ago | Reply Always a day late and a dollar short.

AS | 9 years ago | Reply I would like some clarification here..according to simulation tools, there was no moon sighting possible in SA today. My understanding is that they have rules specifying that they will start the new month if the new moon has been born and if it has reached a certain number of degrees in the sky, even if it is not visible. Then why do our media report so confidently that the new moon has been sighted?

yusuf | 9 years ago | Reply Id_mubarak to muslims globally,pls do observe 6 Shawal fast nd pray

Qassim Zaksh | 9 years ago | Reply Am in need of that News..

Khalifa | 9 years ago | Reply This is insane. Nobody can claim to have sighted moon on New Moon day. Also Moon is just next to Sun making it impossible to sight. Is this announcement of Moon sighting done to win big money on some gamble?

a&a | 9 years ago | Reply Eid mubarak :-) to all the Muslim around the world :-) :-) :-)

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