Is fasting on the Day of Ashura based on the calendar or on the sighting of the moon?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is fasting on the Day of Ashura based on the calendar or on the sighting of the moon?
Answer:
Fasting on the Day of Ashura is done by calculation, without a sighting. Whoever fasts on Friday and Saturday is, if Allah wills, correct, because he either fasted on the ninth and tenth days based on the calendar, or he fasted on the tenth and eleventh days based on the previous sighting of the moon of Dhul-Hijjah. So he fasts on Friday and Saturday, and by this, if Allah wills, he will have matched one of the two possibilities: either the tenth and eleventh, or the ninth and tenth. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is fasting on the Day of Ashura based on the calendar or on the sighting of the moon?
Answer:
Fasting on the Day of Ashura is done by calculation, without a sighting. Whoever fasts on Friday and Saturday is, if Allah wills, correct, because he either fasted on the ninth and tenth days based on the calendar, or he fasted on the tenth and eleventh days based on the previous sighting of the moon of Dhul-Hijjah. So he fasts on Friday and Saturday, and by this, if Allah wills, he will have matched one of the two possibilities: either the tenth and eleventh, or the ninth and tenth. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [534 -1024] هل صيام يوم عاشوراء يكون على التقويم أم على الرؤية؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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