The Ruling on Following the Sighting of the Ramadan Crescent
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Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, we ask you to clarify the ruling on following the sighting of the Ramadan crescent from one country to another. Is it permissible for a person living in another country to rely on the fasting of the Kingdom, since it fasts and breaks the fast based on the sighting? What is also the ruling on following the breaking of the fast in the country where we live, which is the Kingdom?
Answer:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih Muslim 1081b The crescent, the sighting of the crescent: people fast on it and break their fast on it. The people of the country in which the crescent is sighted all fast. As for other countries where the moonrise differs, they fast based on their own sighting. They fast based on their own sighting. If the Muslims fast, fast with them, and if they break their fast, break your fast with them, and do not separate yourself from the Muslims.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, we ask you to clarify the ruling on following the sighting of the Ramadan crescent from one country to another. Is it permissible for a person living in another country to rely on the fasting of the Kingdom, since it fasts and breaks the fast based on the sighting? What is also the ruling on following the breaking of the fast in the country where we live, which is the Kingdom?
Answer:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Observe fast on sighting it (the new moon) and break (fast) on sighting it (the new moon)
صوموا لرؤيته وأفطروا لرؤيته
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