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Moon sighting means sighting the crescent of the new moon and is one of the ways to prove the beginning of a lunar month in religion. A remarkable amount of obligatory and recommended acts of worship and rituals such as hajj, fasting, al-Qadr night and some legal issues such as increasing diya (blood-money) in haram months depend on the moon sighting at the beginning of the month. For determining the beginning of the month, Shi'a jurists have different criteria. Different astronomical conditions influence the sighting of the crescent as well.
A remarkable amount of obligatory acts of worship such as hajj and fasting, and many recommended rituals which are specific to a certain timing, as well as some legal issues such as increasing diya (blood-money) in the haram months depend on the moon sighting of the beginning of the month. Therefore, the ways of proving the beginning of a lunar month are discussed in the jurisprudential books. The importance of this issue is more in the month of Ramadan and becomes more sensitive especially in determining the end of this month so that if the month of Ramadan is twenty-nine days, the next day after the last day would be Eid al-Fitr when fasting would be forbidden, otherwise, it would the thirtieth of the month of Ramadan and fasting is obligatory.
This sensitivity and doubt existed in the past as well and hadiths are transmitted from Imams (a) which well show these conditions; however, in the more recent years, with the expansion of communications, sighting or not sighting the moon in different cities and even countries has increased this doubt and perplexity so much that even in one city, two different days have been announced as the Eid al-Fitr.......
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- 1898 CE – Demise of Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Shahristani (Shawwal 3, 1315)
- 14 AH Beginning of the Battle of Qadisiyya, between the Muslim army and the Sassanid army in Qadisiyya. (October 25, 635)
- 201 AH - Assignment of Imam al-Rida (a) as the crown prince of al-Ma'mun and issuance of coins in the name of Imam al-Rida (a) (March 29, 817)
- 428 AH - Demise of Avicenna (June 24, 1037)
- 511 AH - Birth of Ibn Zuhra a Shia scholar and author of the jurisprudential book al-Ghunya. (January 2, 1118)
- 1411 AH - Demise of Ali Asghar Ahmadi Shahrudi (March 23, 1991)
- 1415 AH - Demise of Sayyid Abd al-Aziz Tabataba'i Yazdi a book scholar, manuscript expert, and Shia historian and scholar in the fields of history, biographies, and genealogy. (February 7, 1995)
- 1414 AH The death of Hamza Shinwari, known as Hamza Baba, a Pakistani poet and writer with a special love for the Ahl al-Bayt (a). (June 6, 1984)
- 1435 AH - Demise of Sayyid Jawad Haydari a Shia cleric, ethics teacher, and Imam of the Barkhordar Mosque in Yazd. (July 5, 2014)
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- ... al-Jawshan al-Kabir is one of the most famous supplications among Shias, especially in Iran? It is often recited both individually and in groups in mosques and Husayniyyas during the nights of Qadr?
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