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In the name of Allah, we begin by praising Allah.

So today's Qewonay brother Bastir is asking about the issue of the whole

calculation versus moon sighting and if we can shed some light about that issue

so today insha'Allah we will summarize the positions of the modern councils

and the other opinions in this regard and discuss why certain ulama hold

positions that are pro-calculations and others hold positions that are anti-calculations.

That will be the question for today insha'Allah. So before I begin the the

Firk issue I would like to take a step back and ask ourselves why is it that

this particular issue out of all of the areas of difference of opinion why is it

that it generates the type of controversy or the type of quick anger or the type

of heated debate or frankly even the emotionalism that other topics do not

generate and I find this interesting because you know we all know that there

are so many great areas of Firk we all know that the different scholars have

have given different positions about so many areas of Islamic law and these

areas they don't generate the type of antagonism or the type of anger or

animosity that this one issue does and in fact some had allowing to give you

one example that comes to my mind right now that sometimes there's even a

hadith that might seem to suggest that the person who doesn't follow this

position is going to go to Jahannam for example there's a hadith that our

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