Saudi Arabia Announces Tuesday first day of Ramadan 

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court announced that the first day of Ramadan will be on Tuesday.

The crescent department held a meeting on Shaban 30, according to the Umm Al-Qura lunar calendar, to sight the new moon.

The decision was made following careful review and after a number of witnesses also confirmed the sighting.

The first fast of the month of Ramadan (Ranzan) will be observed on Tuesday, April 13, while Taraweeh will begin on April 12 after Isha prayers, said the moon sighting committee of the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, who is the custodian of Islam’s two holiest sites on Sunday.

The moon, which is used to establish the beginning of the Ramadan month, was not visible on Sunday and the observation committees would meet again on Monday night.

The moon sighting committee said the crescent moon has not been seen in Saudi Arabia on Sunday evening. Accordingly, Monday, April 12, will be the last and 30th day of Shaban 1442 Hijri, according to The Siasat Daily. “It is difficult to see the moon of Ramadan in other Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, on Sunday,” Abdullah al-Khudairi, director of the astronomical observatory at the University of Al-Majma’ah, was quoted by the Daily as saying. On Sunday, he added that there would be no moon in the sky because it would have set about half an hour before sunset.

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