Friday 28/March/2025 – 09:07 PM
Tomorrow, Saturday, the National Institute for Astronomical and Geophysical Research will explore the crescent of the month of Shawwal 2025, where the institute will specify, tomorrow, the date of the first days of Eid Al -Fitr, through a number of committees deployed in a number of governorates, where these committees explore the crescent and send the vision to the main monitoring committee that is located in the Helwan Observatory.
The monitoring committees consist of a member of the National Institute for Astronomical Research, a representative of the Ifta House, and another representing the Survey Authority, as well as the presence of a representative of the villagers in which the monitoring committee is located.
After the vision, the National Institute for Astronomical Research is sent, as a result of the poll, to the Mufti of the Egyptian Diyar, which in turn announces the date of the month of Shawwal Al -Mubarak 2025, and the Ifta House is the only party entrusted with the announcement of the Eid Al -Fitr date.
Dr. Taha Rabeh, head of the National Institute for Astronomical Research, revealed the reason for the difference in the vision of the crescent of the month of Shawwal 1446 AH, saying: The moon will appear in the sky of Egypt in about 11 minutes after sunset, and international astronomy in its imagination that the 11 minutes is not enough to see the moon.
Astronomical research resolves the controversy over the vision of the crescent of the month of Shawwal
Rabeh added in exclusive statements to Cairo 24, that the virtue of the Mufti of the Republic will be notified of the astronomical calculations that confirm that Eid al -Fitr will be Sunday, noting that the Shawwal Hilal survey will be next Saturday.
The head of the National Institute for Astronomical Research continued: The international astronomy in his calculations that the 11 minutes is not enough to see the moon, so he says that the two Eid, but the Astronomy Institute will be able to see the crescent in 10 minutes.
