The crescent moon (hilaal) that marks the beginning of the 11-th islamic month of Dhul-Qa’dah was seen on the evening of Wednesday, 3 July 2019 from several places in the world. So far, however, until this post is written, we have not received any straight-from-the-camera photo of the crescent moon. The earliest report was from […]
The earliest photographs of new crescent moon (hilal) of 1 Shawal 1440 AH were obtained and reported from Tuesday, 4 June 2019. Positive sightings were reported from Brisbane, Australia, but without photos. Sightings of the crescent moon successfully captured image or photos of the hilal from several places in Indonesia on Tuesday. Here are several […]
The Indonesian Minister of Religious Affair has announced that the crescent moon, hilal, of 1 Ramadan 1440 H has been sighted from several places in Indonesia. Therefore, fasting will begin tomorrow, Monday, 6 May 2019. We will update this post, in shaa Allah, with photos of the Ramadan crescent moon.
The crescent moon (hilaal) of 1 Jumadal Akhirah 1440 Hijra was first sighted on the evening of Tuesday, 5 February 2019 from United States of America. No other naked eye sightings were reported from other countries east of the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, based on global moon sighting, the islamic calendar of 1 Jumadal Akhirah 1440 […]
The islamic hijri month of Jumadal Awla 1440 AH was marked by the sighting of new crescent moons (hilaal) that were visible on the evening of Monday, 7 January 2019. There was no report of positive sighting on Sunday, the day before, so far. Thus, 1 Jumadal Awla 1440 AH starts on Tuesday, 8 January […]
As the year 2019 CE is coming, many muslim will look for the corresponding Islamic Calendar dates. For such reason, Alhabib has prepared Islamic Hijri Calendar for 2019 that is ready to be downloaded as PDF. The islamic calendar 2019 can be viewed in our website and a link to the PDF version of the […]
The crescent moon of 1 Muharram 1440 Hijri is sighted from many places of the world in the evening of Monday, 10 September 2018. Below are some of the early hilaal (crescent moon) photos available online. With this result of moon sighting, the Islamic New Year of 1440 Hijri, 1 Muharram 1440 begins on Tuesday, […]