Two Eids / One question

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Re: Two Eids / One question

as-salaamu alaykum

brother TLk, jazak Allah khayran for good points. Allhamdulillah, many of us share the same sentiment. One side people claim “we follow the Qur’an and the sunnah” but on the other side when sunnah said “watch your local moon and if you see it then do 29 otherwise complete 30” then same people turn around and bring petty arguments to reject that.

SubhaanAllah, can there be any simpler method than what the Prophet (sal-allahu alayhi wa salaam) told us!!?

@NomiCA

do you look at the sun movement when deciding the prayer timings??

or do you follow that calculated schedule thingy??

we don’t look at the sun because the calculated time is estimated based on the sun and since we trust the scholars who spent time to research this we take their words for it. This is not same as using calculation for moon sighting and it is a false comparison.

@NomiCA

I hear the scientists can pretty easily tell u whether there is going to be a moon or not…so why don’t just follow what the science of your local area (not saudi schedule) says??

wouldn’t that like…eliminate all doubts?? about reliability of witnesses…and also blilnd adherence to the saudi calendar???

1 - this method is still not accurate so there’s still the uncertainty factor
2 - it’s not up to us to decide stuff for Islam. When Allah and His messenger (sal-allahu alayhi wa salaam) laid down a method for us then who are we to say that it’s not perfect for us or it has uncertainty and reliability issues. Are you trying to imply that Allah didn’t know about all these issues and hence He didn’t choose a perfect method for us?