The evening of Sunday, 22 January 2023 CE will be the day of moon sighting (rukyatul hilal or rukyet-e hilal) for some of us who keep the islamic calendar in harmony with the moon cycles. Hopefully, the moon will be sighted some where on the globe this evening and we can have some photos of […]
The month of Rajab is the seventh month in the islamic hijri calendar system. In the year 2023, 1 Rajab 1444 AH will be marked by the new moon (conjunction) on Saturday, 21 January 2023 at 20:53 UT. The first visible crescent moon could be sighted in many parts of the world starting on Sunday […]
The oldest known surviving copies of the Quran are written in the Hijazi script, which was used in the Arabian Peninsula during the 7th century AD. The oldest of these copies date back to the 8th and 9th centuries AD. One of the oldest known copies of the Quran is the Sana’a manuscript, which is […]
The development of Artificial Intelligence or AI is advancing quickly and touches wider aspects of live. One of the AI product is ChatGPT form OpenAI project. The “chatBot” was trained with enormous amount of text data and capable of “understanding” our written, natural language query. Just like a conversation. I tried the ChatGPT by asking […]
Below is a collection of photos of the crescent moon (hilaal) for the islamic month of Jumadal Ula 1444 AH. The crescent moon photos below were taken on the evening of Thursday, 24 November 2022 making the first day of the month, 1 Jumadal Ula 1444 AH falls on Friday, 25 November 2022 based on […]
The young crescent moon that marks the start of the islamic month of Rabiul Awwal 1444 AH should be visible by naked eye on the evening of Monday, 26 Sep 2022 from South America as predicted using crescent moon visibility map. Nevertheles, there were “claimed” naked-eye sightings from Indonesia as reported by one of the […]