Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu i came across this and feel i should share with muslim brothers. Attention Please!!! Last Saturday was the 1st of Muharram 1436 since the Sultaan
announced it as such. Those Nigerian's who hold a contrary
view mostly either do so because they believe more in the
forecasts by timing committees and other groups, presented in
calendars they churn annually or they depend solely on their
personal sighting or are blind followers of some scholars who transport their differences with the Sultaan onto purely
scriptural tarmacs.
It is pertinent to mention, first and foremost, that Sunday
should be the ninth of Muharram, not Saturday. Any act of
'ibaadah meant for a particular date in the Islamic calendar
will be invalid if done on a contrary date. Such dates are subject to the announcement by appropriate authorities only. Let brothers and sisters fear Allah and desist from urging
Muslims to consider tomorrow Saturday as the ninth. Sunday is
the ninth while Monday is the tenth.
Astronomy or any other science, raw or refined, which is used
to determine crescent-appearance is valid only if it doesn't
contradict the sharee'ah. The Prophet (SAW), said we don't rely on calculations to
determine a new month. In consideration of this, it is wrong to
determine the appearance of the crescent before the twenty
ninth of a month. Such pronouncements are preemptive and
consequently null and void. May Allah guide us to the straight path. Aameen.