Fasting: Does the Crescent’s Setting Determine the Start of a New Lunar Month?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Fasting: Does the Crescent’s Setting Determine the Start of a New Lunar Month?
English:
Question #830:
As you know, one of the following three things occurs at the beginning or end of each month: The crescent sets before the sunset; or the crescent sets along with sunset; or the crescent sets after the sunset. Please let us know if any of above-mentioned case is enough to rule that the new month has been started?
Answer #830:
In all three cases, sighting the crescent after ‘noon’ is enough to consider the night after the sighting as the start of new lunar month.
-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Fasting