It's been a long long time since i last wrote here.
As a matter of fact, i haven't written anything during September, being busy with many issues.
I have been staying at home (most of the time), with a few exceptions of staying at my cousin's.
There have been many topics but i couldn't find the chance to put them here, however, they would show up here, inshallah, soon.
Today's topic, however, is the Visibility of Shawwal Crescent(1428 AH), and seeing that crescent would mark the end of the Muslim fasting holy month of Ramadan.
Seeing the new moon has been an ongoing long story.
This country fasts today, and marks the end differently from the neighboring, and sometimes surrounding countries, as if the crescent is not the same crescent, and as if astronomy had nothing to say about the matter!
It gets even more complicated when we realize that the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq seems as if they see different crescents!!!
To mark my words on the above issue, Saudi Arabia, UAE & Qatar, as well as the Iraqi Sunnis, declared that Fri. 12 Oct. 2007 will be the 1st day of Eid al-Fitr (Lesser Feast); while the neighboring Oman, Egypt & Iran, as well as the Iraqi Shiites said that Saturday 13 Oct. 2007 would be the 1st day of Eid al-Fitr.
I don't have any country or sect preference, but astronomy says that the 2nd group is the right one this time, and the figure here explains why:
My question is: How did they do it?!
