Srinagar, Apr 20: Mufti Nasir-ul Islam Thursday said that no witness from any part of the J&K was received about the moon sighting and hence a consensus was reached that the Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Saturday.
“No evidence or any witness was received from any part of J&K about the sighting of the moon. Hence, Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Saturday,” news agency KNO quoted Mufti as saying.
He said the decision to announce Eid-ul-Fitr on Saturday was taken after consensus with the ‘Ulema’ from Kashmir and Jammu regions that include head of Mutahida Majlis-e-Ulema (MMU) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, patron of Dar-ul-Uloom Rahimiya Bandipora, Moulana Rehmatullah Qasimi; also from Dar-ul-Uloom Bandipora Mufti Nazir Ahmed Qasmi, Mufti Muzaffar, Mufti Abdur Raheem of Baramulla, Khateeb at the shrine of Hazrat Naqshband Sahab (RA) Prof Muhammad Tayib Kamili, Karwani-e-Islami’s Ghulam Rasool Hami, from Sautul Awliya Fayaz Ahmed Rizvi, Shia scholars Aga Syed Al Hassan Mosvi, Aga Syed Haadi and Masroor Abbas Ansari, Muhammad Yaseen Kirmani, Muslim Personal Law Board’s Mufti Himayon, Shabir Ahmed Geelani, Abdur Hameed Nayeemi, Moulana Younus and Abdur Rehman Ashrafi from Qazigund.
From the Jammu region, the scholars who were part of the consensus include Mufti Nazir Ahmed, Mufti Shabir Ahmed Noori, Qari Ali Hussain, Haji Muhammad Shafi Nasri, Mufti Liyqat Ali Rajouri, Master Ashraf from Kathua, Moulana Muzaffar Hussian Rizvi from Jammu, Moulana Shafi Rizvi from Samba, Mufti Muhammad Iqbal from Poonch, Hafiz Syed Yasir from Udhampur, Bashir Ahmed Qadri and Reasi and Haji Muhammad Tariq from Jammu.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Roet-e-Hilal Committee too announced that the Shawal moon was not sighted and therefore announced that Eid will be celebrated on Saturday, April 22, 2023.
However, Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated on Friday, April 21 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the government there announced that the Shawal moon was sighted.
