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Learn How to Sight the Moon: Rajab 2025

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All time is not the same.

There are particular times that Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, the Creator of time itself, has deemed sacred, blessed, and full of blessing.

We could make resolutions for a year based on a Catholic Pope’s finagling of time (which was modified from a polytheist’s machinations of the months).

We could do that, but as Muslims, we’ve got blessed and better options. Allah told us in Surah Tawbah that since the day He created the heavens and earth, His calendar has 12 months, and four of them are sacred. Additionally, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ advised us on several blessed hours, days, nights, and months throughout Allah’s calendar.

We could make resolutions for Pope Gregory XIII’s 2025, or we could align our hearts with the worship of the natural world, and look for a little sliver of the hilal which signals a month that Allah has said is sacred:

Rajab.

May Allah bless us in Rajab and Sha’ban and allow us to reach Ramadan.

Ameen

Learn How to Sight the Moon: Muharram 2024

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Happy Hijri New Year! It’s time to sight the hilal for Muharram 1446 inshaAllah.

On Saturday, 6 July 2024, the hilal should be visible for much of the US, Central America, and northern parts of South America inshaAllah. The whole world will be able to see the hilal on Sunday, 7 July 2024 inshaAllah.

Wherever I am, I try to seek Allah’s signs

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Wherever I am, I try to seek Allah’s signs, or at least be open to receiving them.

Yesterday, I was in an IHOP parking lot picking up a daughter when I saw the hilal for Dhul-Hijjah.

Each sign is an opportunity for submission to the Creator of the sign. It’s not about my wants or my convenience, but rather, it’s about loving surrender to Allah’s decree.

This is one of the reasons I love sighting the moon.

Hilal of Dhul-Hijjah sighted 7 June 2024 at 9:11PM, in Greenbelt, MD, USA

“We will show them Our signs in the horizons and within themselves until it becomes clear to them that it is the truth. But is it not sufficient concerning your Lord that He is, over all things, a Witness?” (Surah Fussilat 41:53)