Tomorrow, the “Faculty of Navigation Science in Beni Suef” will survey the crescent of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah in cooperation with “Al-Iftaa”
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Dr. Mansour Hassan, President of Beni Suef University, announced that the University’s College of Navigation Science and Space Technology, in cooperation with the Egyptian Fatwa House, will organize a reconnaissance day to investigate the sighting of the crescent of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah for the year 2024 tomorrow, Thursday, 29 Dhu al-Qa’dah 1445 AH.
The university president indicated that the Faculty of Navigation Science, in cooperation with the Egyptian Fatwa House, is surveying the crescent moons of the early Arab months from the college headquarters using an electro-optical telescope under the supervision of the college’s monitoring team and in the presence of a committee from the Egyptian Fatwa House in Cairo. The college is one of the monitoring and investigation committees sent by the Egyptian Fatwa House, to cover the vision nationwide, noting that the university is always interested in providing the college with the latest astronomical telescopes that help it conduct various surveys.
Dr. Osama Shalabia, Dean of the College, explained that there is a committee from the college under the supervision of Dr. Ahmed Badawy at the Department of Space Science and supervisor of the monitoring team, in order to prepare investigative reports on the sighting of the crescent of the Arab months in cooperation with the Egyptian Fatwa House, and that the monitoring committee is training students to use the telescope to monitor and track satellites, as the Arab months have been surveyed a lot over the past years, and that the college conducted a survey of the month of Ramadan last year.
It should be noted that the college is not a fatwa body, but rather a scientific body that follows the noble Prophetic Sunnah in detecting the crescent moon, as our noble Messenger commanded us, pointing out that the college is one of the monitoring committees that contribute to investigating the Holy Month and the Arab months, stressing that the college has all respect and appreciation for the Egyptian Fatwa House, represented by His Excellency the Mufti of Egypt, Dr. Shawqi Allam, as it is the only body that has the final opinion on the dates of the beginnings and ends of the Hijri months.