Sighting Reports Eid Al Fitr 2012 / 1433

Friday, 17 August 2012: No positive sighting reports are expected. None reported thus far.

Saturday, 18 August 2012:

• Australia: Sighted in Bunadoora, Melbourne & City Beach, Perth
• Fiji Islands:
  1. Seen: M Shamim Ali (MCW member) from Samabula Suva reported: New Moon for the month of Shawwal 1433H has been sighted in the Fiji Islands as announced by Mohammed Taabish Akbar, General Secretary of Fiji Muslim League, (MCW member). Therefore EID-UL-FITR will INSHA ALLAH be celebrated on SUNDAY 19th AUGUST 2012. See the Official Announcement Click Here.
• Saudi Arabia:
  1. Eid is on Sunday: Al-Arabiya News reported: The Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan is to start on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s religious authorities announced. In a statement by Saudi media, they said the crescent which marks the new lunar month was not sighted on Friday night and that Saturday would as a result be considered the 30th and final day of the dawn-to-dusk month of fasting.
     Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and the United Arab Emirates also announced the celebration to be marked on Sunday, following the sighting of the new moon that will mark the beginning of the lunar month of Shawal, which follows the fasting month of Ramadan in the Muslim hijri calendar.

OFFICIAL Eid Al Fitr 2012/1433  – 1st Day of Shawwal – in Different Countries

Sunday, 19 August 2012: 

1. Afghanistan (Follow Saudi)
2. Albania (Follow Saudi)
3. Algeria (Follow Saudi)
4. Armenia (Follow Saudi)
5. Australia (Some follow FCNA, ECFR, Ummul-Qura)
6. Austria (Follow Saudi)
7. Azerbaijan (Follow Saudi)
8. Bahrian (Follow Saudi)
9. Bangladesh (Some areas follow Saudi)
10. Belgium (Follow Saudi)
11. Bolivia (Follow Saudi)
12. Bosnia and Hercegovina (Follow Saudi)
13. Bulgaria (Follow Saudi)
14. Canada (Fiqh Council of North America and Muslim Association of Canada, Alberta)
15. Canada (Shi’aa Community – Announced by Grand Ayatollah Hosseini Nassab, Also Hilal Committee of Canada)
16. Chechnia (Follow Saudi)
17. China (30 day completion)
18. Cosovo (Follow Saudi)
19. Denmark (Follow Saudi)
20. Egypt (Moon Born before sunset & moon sets at least 5 minutes after sunset)
21. Finland (Follow Saudi)
22. France (Follow European Council of Fatwa & Research (ECFR))
23. Georgia (Follow Saudi)
24. Germany (Follow ECFR)
25. Hungary (Follow Saudi)
26. Iceland (Follow Saudi)
27. Ireland (Follow Saudi)
28. Italy (Follow Saudi)
29. Jordan (Follow Saudi)
30. Kazakhstan (Calculations)
31. Kuwait (Follow Saudi)
32. Kyrgizstan (Follow Saudi)
33. Lebanon (Follow Saudi)
34. Libya (Moon must be born before Fajr in Libya)
35. Luxembourg (Follow ECFR)
36. Malaysia (Age > 8 hours, altitude > 2°, elongation > 3°)
37. Mauritania (Follow Saudi)
38. Montenegro (Follow Saudi)
39. Netherlands (Follow Saudi)
40. Norway (Follow Saudi)
41. Palestine (Follow Saudi)
42. Philippines (Follow Saudi)
43. Qatar (Follow Saudi)
44. Romania (Follow Saudi)
45. Russia (Follow Saudi)
46. Saudi Arabia (Local Sighting – Official Announcement)
47. Spain (Follow Saudi)
48. Sudan (Follow Saudi)
49. Sweden (Follow Saudi)
50. Switzerland (Follow Saudi)
51. Syria (Follow Saudi)
52. Taiwan (Follow Saudi)
53. Tajikistan (Follow Saudi)
54. Tatarstan (Follow Saudi)
55. Tunisia (Criteria of age, or altitude, or sunset-moonset lag)
56. Turkey (Calculations)
57. Turkmenistan (Follow Saudi)
58. U.A.E. (Follow Saudi)
59. UK (Follow Saudi) [Coordination Committee of Major Islamic Centres of London, The central Moon Sighting Committee of Great Britain]
60. UK (30 days completion or Sighting from other country) [Wifaaqul ulama , Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat]
61. USA (Fiqh Council of North America/Islamic Society of North America (Calculations)
62. Uzbekistan (Follow Saudi)
63. Yemen (Follow Saudi)

Monday, 20 August 2012:

TBA

MuslimVillage.com Eid Al Fitr 2012/1433 Guide

What is Recommended On the Day of Eid Al Fitr?

To wake up early, preferably before Fajr or at the entering of Fajr

To pray the Fajr group prayer in the masjid

To eat something sweet after the Fajr prayer before going to the Eid prayer area

To eat dates if one can find them, and to eat them in amounts of odd numbers

To perform the purificatory bath (ghusl) before the Eid prayer, even for a person who is not attending the prayer

To clean one’s teeth with a siwak or similar object as much as possible

To wear scented perfume (women do not wear strong scented perfume outside of their homes)

To wear the best of one’s clothes, which consist of the most beautiful, cleanest or newest garments, even if they are not white

To make one’s happiness and joy apparent, thanking Allah for one’s blessings

To smile and display one’s happiness when meeting others

To give much in non-obligatory charity, more than one’s usual habit

To direct oneself to the Eid prayer area, while saying ‘Allahu Akbar’ quietly to oneself and to stop saying it when the Imam begins the Eid prayer

To go to the Eid prayer area by foot

To pay the sadaqat al-fitr (zakat al-fitr) if it is necessary for one to do so

To arrive early at the Eid prayer area so one can pray in the first line

To return from a different direction after performing the Eid prayer

Source: Shurunbulali, Maraqi al-Falah; Ala al-Din Abidin, al-Hadiyya al-Alaiyya; Shurunbulali, Imdad al-Fattah; al-Haskafi, Durr al-Mukhtar

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