Eid mubarak to all muslims . May Allah unite the Ummah. Remember the Ummah in your duas. Allah has made the testimony of one single Muslim sufficient in the affirmation of the crescent’s sighting, whether this were the crescent of Ramadhan or the crescent of Shawwal. Ibnu Abbas reported that a Bedouin came to the Messenger of Allah (saw) and said: “I sighted the crescent.” He (saw) said: “Do you profess that there is no god but Allah? He said: “Yes” He (saw) then asked him: “Do you profess that Mohammed is the Messenger of Allah?” HE said: “Yes”. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Call upon people to fast tomorrow then O Bilal.”Therefore, if a witness were to testify with what does not contradict the senses, nor with what contradicts the conclusive text, and if the ruler or the judge were content that the witness is most probably sincere, due to the fact that he is Muslim, mature and sane, and free of any reasons that may make his testimony rejected according to Shariah, his testimony must be accepted and it must be acted upon, because it conforms with the command of the Legislator and because the rule is built upon the least amount of doubt and not upon decisiveness. If the testimony of the witness is sound, it will not require anything to consolidate it. It is also haram to cancel it except through that which a testimony is rejected from a Shariah viewpoint. The astronomical calculations and scientific facts should not be taken into consideration because they, and their like, have no evidence, neither from the Book, nor from the Sunnah, thus they cannot be deemed as part of Al-Bayyinaat, for there is no evidence to indicate that they are an evidence. To act upon such calculations is contradictory to what the Legislator (swt) has established as Sabab for fasting and contradictory to the rule that He (swt) has decreed in order to confirm the Sabab
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:58:49 +0000
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