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Abu Dhabi: Sheikh Abdullah Bin Al Manea, a member of Saudi Arabia’s Council of Senior Scholars and an advisor to the royal court, says Ramadan will last 30 days, until Wednesday, May 12, local media reported.
“Ramadan 1442 H has started on Tuesday, April 13, and it will last 30 days (until Wednesday, May 12), because the birth of [the moon of] Shawwal is on Tuesday at 9.59pm, and the sun on Tuesday sets at 6.51pm, while the moon sets, 13 minutes earlier, at 6.38pm,” Al Manea said.
This makes sighting the moon on Tuesday unlikely.
“So Wednesday completes Ramadan 30 days, and Thursday, May 13, will be the first day of Shawwal, which is Eid Al Fitr,” Al Manea said.
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Abu Dhabi: Saudi educators and public figures have agreed that the Ministry of Education s warning against expiation (Takfiri) thought of terrorist groups, especially the Muslim Brotherhood, in the Islamic studies at schools is an important and necessary step to protect pupils against the dangers of these groups and their destructive ideas, indicating that the stray ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood exceeded the limits.
Educators were reacting to the Saudi Ministry of Education’s merging, Islamic education subjects for general education students into a single course called “Islamic Studies”, starting with the semester that begins Sunday and allocating lessons to explain the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood s ideology for students.