What is the Shaykh's comment on the Muslims in one country being divided regarding the sighting of the moon for fasting and the moon for the festival? Especially in lands of disbelief?

The questioner : This is part of his questions, quoting my Shaykh regarding the centers there. In the same country, people fast in different ways; some people fast...

The Shaykh : ...the division.

The questioner : I mean, even the centers of the Muslim Brotherhood, or for example, among the Salafi brothers in the same areas, some fast this way and others that way.

The Shaykh : My master, the Muslims in their own lands are different, so what about in lands of disbelief?

The questioner : Yes, by Allah, that is correct.

The Shaykh : The issue of the difference between regions.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : As I say, off the main point, the earth differs by the inch.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Today my daughter Salama called from Jeddah.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : She asked why, of course, this was before the sunset and sunrise at our place. She told me she saw the sun. I told her, no, the sun has not risen at our place yet. She said, strange, I saw the sun. I found her words to be those of a happy person, as if she had seen a sign of the Night of Decree.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : I asked her, what did you see? Like a cauldron? No rays? She said yes. I told her, the sun has not risen at our place yet, and I take the time of sunrise for our house, which differs by a third of an hour from the calendar.

The questioner: Yes, that is correct.

The Shaykh : The important thing is, I took the calendar paper. I have now finished talking about my daughter. I found it written as five and a half and five. I think yes, five and a half and five... I waited until it became ten minutes to six. I stood to watch the sun until it began to rise. Isam's bell rang.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : I opened it quickly and told him, come to me, look at how the sun is rising, with rays or without rays? Two opinions are better than one. When I saw its rim, I said it has rays.

The questioner : ... twenty-seven.

The Shaykh : Yes, the important thing is, we waited until the whole disk rose, what Allah willed.

The questioner : More than twenty-seven, my Shaykh.

The Shaykh : A natural sun, I mean.

The questioner : Yes, natural.

The Shaykh : The important thing is, the joke has not come yet.

The questioner : Ah.

The Shaykh : After I had finished the conversation with my daughter.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : I hung up here, and the phone rang from there, and Umm al-Yasir said, I saw the sun, the same words as my daughter. I told her, the sun has not risen at my place yet. She said, strange, it has risen at our place. Here is the point.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Yes, and she saw it as my daughter saw it. To summarize, I and Isam saw it. After a while, I called her and said, we saw it, and as I told you, after a third of an hour, it rose at our place with rays, what Allah willed. And now I gave her a detailed explanation about the Night of Decree, that first, it moves, and second, this issue of moving might be the case. I told her, you must have knowledge that it might be in the odd nights of the ten and move from one odd night to another. But the new thing I want to tell you, and this is my opinion, not a text, it might be correct, it might be wrong, that the Night of Decree might be relative to individuals, and not only to countries...

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : I told her, the verse the Messenger mentioned, which is the sun rising like a cauldron, do you think that every individual among the Muslims sees it or at least notices it? She said, of course not. Then I said to her, do you not think that some people saw the Night of Decree but did not see its sign?

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : I stopped and said to her, I think this is the case, because seeing the Night of Decree is not necessarily a visual seeing, but it is a spiritual, heart-based seeing. And this is the meaning of the saying of the Lady Aisha, we are under our feet.
The student : ... we need to turn behind you, behind you.

The Shaykh : Behind you.
The student : Yes.

The Shaykh : We need to turn from here. Now, the man, the Night of Decree is a special manifestation.

The questioner : A feeling.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : But nothing of the signs or material indicators is seen.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : While others see the material signs but did not see anything; perhaps they were not praying.

The questioner : Ah...

The Shaykh : Yes, so on this basis, it is possible that the Night of Decree is relative to some men, meaning one person sees the Night of Decree as a spiritual vision on the twenty-first, and another on the twenty-third, and so on, because this is a divine manifestation. Therefore, it came: , , .

The questioner : It needs to be on the last day too, my Shaykh, yes.

The Shaykh : Yes, the twenty-ninth.

The questioner : Meaning, we still have room.

The Shaykh : Twenty-nine days.

The questioner : By Allah, my Shaykh, I was surprised when the announcement mentioned these stories to me. Some of our brothers, one of them said, on the twenty-seventh day, he saw the sun like a cauldron. I was standing in the mosque of Taqwa, and the young men were around. The young men said to me, how is the night? I hoped for them, how is the sun? According to what I saw, this many times in the past years, by the grace of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), and truly, a person feels that its signs are clear and evident, and sometimes, by the grace of Allah (Mighty and Majestic), he feels its blessing.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : But, glory to Allah the Great, the sun is clear with rays... meaning, twenty-seven for me, twenty-three for you, twenty-nine for Abu 'Ubadah.

The Shaykh : Yes, but with the note that this is an opinion, not a text.

The questioner : Yes, yes, yes.

The Shaykh : Meaning, this is similar to the research I presented to you regarding whether one who missed the festival prayer prays two rak'ahs or four.

The questioner : Yes, yes.

The Shaykh : In the total of the narrations, this is the opinion.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : In the total of the hadiths mentioned earlier, this is my opinion.

The questioner : Yes, yes, okay, and what is our Shaykh's name? And also, do you say the takbir four times, or do you not say the seven and five takbirs?

The Shaykh: Peace be upon you.

The questioner : Peace be upon you...

Another questioner : Does the sun remain without rays for a long time in the sky, or for a specific period?

The Shaykh : There is no specific duration.

The questioner : There is no... my Shaykh, we noticed it rises when it becomes very, very high, and it is, what Allah willed.