When does Ramadan start?
Some of my friends say tommarow others say on wednesday
Im 
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Wednesday
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For london right?
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Depends on the sighting of the moon will be a last minute decision as usual :)
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after esha right?
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I think this would be better suited in the General forum.
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Ours starts tonight, first roza in the morning :)
May Allah forgive our sins, and let us all be successful in this month.
Ameen.
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Too bad you're not American otherwise it would've been so easy for you to figure it out just by me saying:
It's tomorrow.
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please also tell us which city you are from before saying which date.. since we are from all over the world :) jazakAllah
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Flordians I've heard are starting tomorrow.
Atlanta, GA starting tomorrow because they follow Saudis.
ISNA.net has not announced that the moon has been sighted in N.Am.
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From Moonsighting.com
The Astronomical New Moon is on Monday October 3, 2005 at 10:28 Universal Time. Looking at the visibilty curve one can understand that the moon is in the Southern Hemisphere. The moon is about 15 hours old and being too low on the horizon for North America will set in 14 min. after sunset on west coast. It cannot be seen in North America nor anywhere East of USA October 3. On October 4, it will be visible in most of the world except most of Asia and Europe, where it will be 24 to 31 hours old and less than 2 degrees above the horizon, still not visible. In Europe and most of Asia, it cannot be seen until October 5, when it will be 48 to 55 hours old. Accordingly, the first day of Ramadan will be on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 for North America and most of the world, except most of Asia and Europe, Insha-Allah.
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^ tell that to the Saudis - they are starting tomorrow because they don’t want a Friday Eid (I’m guessing) 
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this is strage, my friend in boston told me their masjid announced its tommorow (tuesday)???
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they are following saudies... One bangladeshi mosque announced the same a week ago here in NY :D
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^ Because the moon hasn’t been sighted in North America Spock but of course the Saudis have to act like they are special in every way possible and thus half the US population will blindly follow people with an 8 hour time difference
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**From moonsighting.com
Ramadan: The Astronomical New Moon is on Monday October 3, 2005 at 10:28 Universal Time. Looking at the visibilty curve one can understand that the moon is in the Southern Hemisphere. The moon is about 15 hours old and being too low on the horizon for North America will set in 14 min. after sunset on west coast. It cannot be seen in North America nor anywhere East of USA October 3. On October 4, it will be visible in most of the world except most of Asia and Europe, where it will be 24 to 31 hours old and less than 2 degrees above the horizon, still not visible. In Europe and most of Asia, it cannot be seen until October 5, when it will be 48 to 55 hours old. Accordingly, the first day of Ramadan will be on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 for North America and most of the world, except most of Asia and Europe, Insha-Allah.
From isna.net
RAMADAN: The available data indicate that the Astronomical New Moon will occur on Monday, October 3, 2005 at 10:28 GMT, i.e. 6:28 a.m. Eastern Standard Time or 3:28 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. On October 3 rd , this moon is going to be about 15 hours old on the west coast of USA , and all Muslim astronomical consultants are unanimous that it is impossible to see it in North America . The reason is that it is going to be too low (only about 2 degrees) above the horizon at sunset in North America setting in about 5 to 15 minutes after sunset. On October 4, it will be easily visible in North America , because it will be about 39 hours old and will remain on the horizon for up to 45 minutes. It will be a big moon, but it will be the first crescent seen in North America . With this indisputable scientific data, it is likely that 30 days of Sha'ban will be completed and the first day of Ramadan will be on Wednesday, October 5, 2005, for North America , insha'Allah.**
Here's what I don't get. There is mind/observation-independent reality. If we follow that, the first day of Ramadan should be Tuesday. But, because of bad visibility factors, and because we can't see the moon, even though it is there and legitimately there...we will follow our own observations...which are flawed?
So since when did Islam say to not follow scientific reality, but rather our inaccurate observations of it??
Muslims are so messed up. The first day of Ramadan for North America should be tomorrow.
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it's not flawed... the RULE of new moon in Islam is that it got to be above horizon after sunset.
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This sure is confusing, when will we find out for sure, we have to goto sleep too...