start of ramzan

Dont forget some mosques announced shab-e-berat early, so they are counting the days from there, yours must be one of the masjids ? Nothings decided yet brother, wait until a confirmed moon sighting has been reported.

There is a live debate going on right now with four scholars regarding Ramadan moon channel 841 DM LIVE.

Mashallah it was an excellent debate centred in a studio in Manchester and dominated by one Sunni presenter and our knowledgeable sunni ulama. There was a whabbi, a dobbie, a shia and Allama Mehmud Frashfi sahib rep'ng the sunnis. Frashfi sahaib was intelligent, positive and provided detailed references and technicalities of sighting the moon, latitude and angles and all that. The whabbi tried to put a moderate front on for the cameras, the dobbie was typical sitting on the fence and clueless, the shia ..didnt understand what he was saying half the time, neither did the two presenters or audience. Then Sayed Muzzamail sahib (Manchester victoria Park Mosque) came on and gave another good logical explanation and importance of a sighting, but all in all an excellent programme and congrats to DM LIVE, will have to tune in more if they are to produce more live programmes like this.

It ended with the first four scholars agreeing that the best method (without prejudice) was that there should be an observatory reading of the sighting to accurately prove a sighting .... well all that fell by the wayside today with the saudis having done the first taravee already ? Says it all really, when moonsighting.com says its near impossible to see the moon anywhere on the 3rd, the whabbis obviously know different.

Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu

Jazakallah this is great news a proper Sunni channel, ive just picked it up, they have just had a na'at khwan on praying kalam of Mian Mohammad Baksh Rehmatullahi ’Alaih ..waah!! I can recognise Allama Sayyed Muzammil Sahib, Qari Javed sahib and Allama Nisar Baig sahib too in the studio.