Dar al-Fatwa Says Ramadan Starts Friday, Shiite Council Says Month Begins Saturday
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Dar al-Fatwa, the highest religious Sunni Muslim authority in Lebanon, on Thursday announced that Friday will be the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, as the Higher Islamic Shiite Council declared that Ramadan will start on Saturday.
The holy month will begin on Friday in most Arab countries, religious authorities announced, but in Oman and Syria as well as for Iraq's Sunni Muslims and in non-Arab Iran it will start on Saturday.
Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen were among those to announce a Friday start.
During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable.
The month begins with the sighting of the new moon, which varies from country to country.
20 July 2012, 02:45
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Therefore I am going to make the big brown one on Friday to feed the filthy Sunni crazies.
20 July 2012, 02:46
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lol, also for determining the start of Ramadan there are those who follow Saudi Arabia and those who follow Iran? ;-) God help us all!
20 July 2012, 07:05
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ramadan kareem to all muslims! time to meditate about life and these long overdue arab revolutions.
20 July 2012, 09:17
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Has Ramadan ever been the same for both the Shia and Sunnis in the last 20 years? It seems they want to be different.
20 July 2012, 13:40
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Well duh. The whole concept of shiaism is to be diffirent from Muslims. That is why shiaism was created in the first place. The issue is not sunni vs shia, its shiaism vs Islam. And for that one can not blame the mainstream muslims, rather its the fault of those who made their own religion called shiaism while at the same time refusing to let go of the name islam. The quran even states (La takouno shee3an) yet they created a new religion with that name and insist on it beeing islam even though its not. Druze have their own religion as well and they dont call it Islam because they know its a diffirent thing. Why shiite still insist on calling their religion "part of Islam" is only to confuse people. Had the shiites simply declared they are a seperate religion then much of this conflict would die and people would simple ignore eachother instead of always arguing. The blame is on those that created their own religion in the name of islam.
20 July 2012, 09:24
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Yes. Of course. Today Ramadan starts for most sunnis and even the shiites that follow Sayyid Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah.
Its not about being different. It's about seeing the new moon which marks the beginning of the new month. Fadlallah on one hand did this scientifically and through calculations while others still wait to "see" the moon.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. The person who calls the day is the one who has to pay the "kiffara" for all who followed him if he was wrong :)
