Ali Dawah - February 19, 2026


“MOON SIGHTING COULD’NT BE SEEN IN SAUDI” - SCIENTIFIC TRUTH


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9 minutes

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2,110

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182

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Has Saudi Arabia got the moon sighting wrong? Is it possible to see the moon? Is Ramadan visible or not visible? Is there a conspiracy going on here? What's going on with the Saudi regime? Do they know something we don't know?

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00:00:00.000 This is the new Sadaqah Jariah in town.
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00:00:37.780 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
00:00:40.080 brothers and sisters and dear friends.
00:00:42.500 Ramadan Mubarak, inshallah.
00:00:43.660 I hope Ramadan is going well for you guys.
00:00:45.280 So has Saudi lied to us?
00:00:46.720 Has the Saudi regime conned us?
00:00:49.400 Have they told us a lie?
00:00:51.020 Are we fasting when we shouldn't be fasting?
00:00:52.820 How are these gone to waste?
00:00:53.980 Well, these are all the questions that people have.
00:00:55.080 So, this is a graph of the map, actually.
00:00:58.820 And this shows that that red line there
00:01:00.340 is moonsighted, only visible with a telescope.
00:01:04.080 Okay, with something that you can see
00:01:06.580 with a telescope or something along those lines
00:01:09.080 in those regions.
00:01:09.800 So they're saying that Saudi Arabia
00:01:12.920 is far, far away.
00:01:14.280 So it is impossible.
00:01:15.320 So we're going to watch a couple of videos, inshallah,
00:01:16.900 and see the claims, inshallah,
00:01:17.920 and see, inshallah, if Ramadan is visible or not visible.
00:01:21.400 And subhanAllah, we're just going to put this
00:01:22.760 matta to bed with Shaykh Uthman Faruk, inshallah.
00:01:26.240 So let's watch it, inshallah,
00:01:27.020 because this is getting really ridiculous.
00:01:28.700 People that I would not even think that would say
00:01:30.120 they're now, like, conspiring on conspiracy,
00:01:32.460 like Mohammed bin Salman.
00:01:33.660 What's he going to get out of
00:01:35.420 starting Ramadan a day earlier,
00:01:38.420 whatever it's for that matter?
00:01:39.500 So let's go to the first video, inshallah.
00:01:40.900 Let's see what the Muslims have to say. 0.98
00:01:42.920 I can't believe that people are just
00:01:44.000 arguing about this, inshallah.
00:01:44.960 Okay, let's go.
00:01:45.520 Breaking news!
00:01:46.260 Saudi Arabia got the moon!
00:01:47.560 Bruh, why are you shouting?
00:01:48.840 I would have been laughing in the shaitan al-rajeem, bro. 0.99
00:01:50.400 It's Ramadan.
00:01:51.580 Why are you screaming and shouting like that?
00:01:53.080 Why did I find it?
00:01:54.100 What's wrong with you?
00:01:55.240 Habibi, what's going on? 0.62
00:01:56.760 Why are you screaming like that?
00:01:57.580 Because the world, like, the way you started it,
00:01:59.460 it's like, you saw the Dajjal.
00:02:01.080 You saw the Antichrist.
00:02:02.120 You saw the Dajjal or, subhanAllah, 0.99
00:02:04.120 some kind of creature.
00:02:05.260 Citing wrong!
00:02:05.960 Many people across the world are saying
00:02:07.620 Saudi Arabia may have gotten the moon sighting wrong
00:02:09.860 and that it was apparently impossible to see the moon
00:02:12.340 and we should follow local moon sighting
00:02:14.080 like Morocco and other countries.
00:02:15.440 However, Saudi Arabia is saying they had clear proof
00:02:17.820 that the moon was sighted.
00:02:19.300 So, we should not be starting moon wars.
00:02:21.100 If you follow global, follow it.
00:02:22.580 If you follow local moon sighting, follow it.
00:02:24.360 Please don't start moon wars this year
00:02:25.960 and let me know what day is your first Ramadan.
00:02:28.800 Habibi, you started with a madness. 1.00
00:02:31.520 Like, you saw Dajjal.
00:02:33.000 And at the first time, you just saw a very calm.
00:02:35.520 Anyway, so let's move on to another video, inshallah.
00:02:37.040 Let's see what this person had to say.
00:02:40.000 Breaking news!
00:02:40.540 Saudi Arabia got the moon sighting for Ramadan wrong!
00:02:43.120 Muslims all across the world are saying Saudi Arabia got the moon sighting wrong
00:02:46.520 and Ramadan actually starts on Thursday.
00:02:48.900 They're also saying it was impossible to see the moon
00:02:51.000 and we should follow local moon sighting like Morocco.
00:02:53.460 However, there was proof that Saudi did see the moon.
00:02:56.180 Guys, wallahi, please, let's not start moon wars this year.
00:02:58.980 If you follow Saudi like me, then follow Saudi. 0.99
00:03:01.120 If you follow local moon sighting, then follow local moon sighting.
00:03:03.920 And Allah knows best. Share this.
00:03:05.240 Exactly. There you go, alhamdulillah.
00:03:06.440 To the point, okay, you know, obviously there was, you know,
00:03:09.020 the brother's a little bit vocal, alhamdulillah, as well.
00:03:11.240 But, you know, he's not.
00:03:12.360 The other guy, the guy, the age of death came.
00:03:14.940 Okay, and so this is another person coming from a different perspective.
00:03:17.220 And then we'll go over to Shaykh Uttan Farooq to explain this matter, inshallah.
00:03:19.780 Okay.
00:03:20.420 Saudi Arabia today have announced that they've seen the moon for Ramadan
00:03:23.460 even though it's scientifically impossible to have seen the moon today.
00:03:27.580 And yet they've announced it.
00:03:28.480 Now, you can check this for yourself.
00:03:29.680 Go and check out HM Nultukur Almanac office,
00:03:32.020 which is historically related to the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
00:03:34.160 They say it's impossible.
00:03:35.160 There's multiple Arab astronomy organisations saying it's impossible,
00:03:38.020 including the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Science and Technology,
00:03:40.940 including the government of Oman,
00:03:42.100 who a few days ago declared that they would not accept any moon sighting claims today
00:03:44.960 because it's scientifically not possible to see the moon anywhere in the Middle East
00:03:48.220 or, to be honest, anywhere in the world today.
00:03:50.040 And yet Saudi announced.
00:03:51.660 Now, many mosques in the UK follow Saudi,
00:03:53.620 and that's why many people will be fasting tomorrow with Saudi on Wednesday the 18th.
00:03:56.560 But many people don't follow Saudi.
00:03:57.760 Like us, we'll be looking for the moon tomorrow.
00:03:59.700 And inshallah, if we see the moon tomorrow at the observatory at Greenwich,
00:04:02.080 we will commence a fast on Thursday the 19th of February.
00:04:04.440 Okay, so now, subhanAllah, subhanAllah, okay, that's fine.
00:04:07.460 You can follow your, like, nobody's asking that you have to follow Saudi.
00:04:10.000 It's not a must.
00:04:10.900 You can follow your own region.
00:04:12.040 We have hadith from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam about this.
00:04:13.840 Now, Sheikh Adhan Farah puts this whole matter to bed.
00:04:16.180 I thought I'd just leave it to him, inshallah.
00:04:17.220 Here's the video, inshallah, brothers and sisters,
00:04:18.580 and I'll give you my little two-pence piece,
00:04:19.700 which does not even need it.
00:04:21.120 The fact that we're bickering about this kind of stuff, etc.
00:04:23.920 We don't look at the bigger picture.
00:04:24.980 We act like Bani Israel.
00:04:26.060 When Allah told him in Surah Baqarah to sacrifice a cow, 0.56
00:04:28.660 which cow, what color, when, how, this, that.
00:04:31.280 They just made matters so complicated for themselves.
00:04:34.380 And some people go to OCDs.
00:04:35.380 Some people have these OCDs.
00:04:36.820 And wallahi, they've got the privacy mixed up.
00:04:38.740 Do you know what I'm trying to say?
00:04:39.660 Like, go and, oh, is my meat slaughtered in the right way?
00:04:42.960 Was the Imam, the person who slaughtered it, 0.97
00:04:44.800 was he praying Fajr?
00:04:45.940 Did he say Bismillah?
00:04:47.180 Like, wallahi, like, they go into details.
00:04:49.720 And then sometimes you see people like that,
00:04:51.640 who go into, like, details.
00:04:53.920 There wasn't the detail.
00:04:55.140 You look at them with other stuff.
00:04:56.580 When it comes to, subhanAllah, wronging people, 1.00
00:04:58.540 when it comes to not paying debt, etc.
00:05:00.340 They don't give a crap.
00:05:01.540 And then you think, subhanAllah,
00:05:02.360 if you gave the effort over there,
00:05:03.740 it would have been better for you.
00:05:04.420 But let's see what Shah Rukh said.
00:05:06.000 And I think they're supposed to matter into bed.
00:05:07.900 The Saudi moon's hiding a hoax?
00:05:10.040 Ya Allah, what is this nonsense people are talking?
00:05:13.160 Understand this.
00:05:13.900 The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
00:05:15.620 told us,
00:05:16.040 when you sight the moon, fast.
00:05:17.200 When you sight the moon, break the fast.
00:05:19.460 It's simple.
00:05:20.760 Look, why would Saudi Arabia hoax the moon sighting?
00:05:24.120 You think they just want to fast an extra day?
00:05:26.200 No.
00:05:27.160 Saudi Arabia has official sites with observatories
00:05:30.740 where scholars, scientists, astronomers,
00:05:34.160 they all go out there to check for the moon.
00:05:36.480 In Tumeir, they have this in the middle of the desert.
00:05:39.320 They have a beautiful facility.
00:05:40.820 They went out and they sighted the moon.
00:05:42.720 And they took pictures of it.
00:05:45.040 Not just one sight,
00:05:46.540 four different sights have pictures of the moon that was sighted.
00:05:50.780 I don't understand what's wrong with people.
00:05:52.780 They said they sighted it.
00:05:53.980 Kalaas. 0.96
00:05:54.620 The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
00:05:55.740 told us that when you hear somebody
00:05:57.480 who gives the testimony that they sighted the moon,
00:05:59.920 they fast.
00:06:00.880 In the hadith in Sunnah Nabi Dawood, 0.74
00:06:02.700 2342,
00:06:04.120 Abdullah ibn Umar said,
00:06:05.300 the people went out to sight the moon.
00:06:06.940 They didn't see it.
00:06:07.780 I saw it.
00:06:09.040 The Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
00:06:10.080 on just the testimony of Abdullah ibn Umar,
00:06:12.580 he began the month of Ramadan.
00:06:14.640 So what is the issue here?
00:06:16.660 And again,
00:06:17.400 it's not just one sight.
00:06:18.960 It's four different sights
00:06:20.240 across Saudi Arabia
00:06:21.680 that have taken pictures and posted them.
00:06:24.900 And it's not just Saudi Arabia.
00:06:26.740 There were local moon sightings
00:06:28.220 in the UAE,
00:06:29.340 in Qatar,
00:06:30.060 in Bahrain,
00:06:31.040 in Kuwait,
00:06:31.780 in Yemen,
00:06:32.740 and in Palestine.
00:06:33.940 The Palestinian Authority also declared it.
00:06:36.220 In Gaza,
00:06:37.100 you think the people of Gaza are lying to us?
00:06:39.240 They sighted the moon.
00:06:40.400 In Lebanon,
00:06:41.200 in Sudan,
00:06:42.000 in Somalia,
00:06:42.820 in the Djibouti,
00:06:43.560 in South Sudan,
00:06:44.760 and even in Afghanistan.
00:06:46.440 Yes,
00:06:47.040 the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,
00:06:49.140 across Afghanistan,
00:06:50.580 sighted the moon
00:06:51.360 and they are fasting as well.
00:06:52.940 You think they're just blindly following Saudi?
00:06:54.940 No,
00:06:55.240 they have their own moon sightings
00:06:56.640 that they saw across Afghanistan.
00:06:58.860 This is ridiculous.
00:07:00.300 People making accusations
00:07:01.520 that have no basis.
00:07:03.000 The moon was sighted.
00:07:04.060 You should be fasting.
00:07:04.880 If you didn't,
00:07:05.760 that's between you and Allah, 1.00
00:07:07.620 but stop making baseless accusations.
00:07:10.180 There are pictures.
00:07:11.540 The moon was sighted,
00:07:13.220 not by some random person
00:07:14.740 in observatory,
00:07:16.300 across Saudi Arabia
00:07:17.340 and across the Muslim world.
00:07:19.360 Allahumma taqabbal minna wa minkum.
00:07:21.700 Ramadan mubarak.
00:07:22.920 So,
00:07:23.420 SubhanAllah,
00:07:24.160 you can see,
00:07:24.660 SubhanAllah,
00:07:24.980 the fact that Shaykhana Farooq
00:07:26.000 is mentioning,
00:07:26.860 Abdullah bin Umar
00:07:27.540 saw a sighting
00:07:28.520 and the Prophet ď·ş
00:07:29.440 took his word
00:07:30.260 and said,
00:07:31.000 Khalas,
00:07:31.340 if you said you're a believer,
00:07:32.760 he didn't go to the nitty gritty,
00:07:33.960 are you sure,
00:07:34.660 this, that,
00:07:35.060 we don't know.
00:07:36.240 Wallahi,
00:07:36.680 we make the religion
00:07:37.560 so hard on ourself.
00:07:38.300 And if you look at Bani Israel, 0.94
00:07:39.260 the reason why the Jews 1.00
00:07:40.180 have 600 plus commandments
00:07:41.520 is because they made life
00:07:42.800 so hard for theirself
00:07:43.620 that sometimes they even,
00:07:45.420 SubhanAllah,
00:07:45.700 they have to find loopholes
00:07:46.980 in their religion
00:07:47.920 so they do not
00:07:48.860 do certain things.
00:07:50.040 They made it hard on theirself.
00:07:51.380 Why are you making life
00:07:52.440 hard on yourself?
00:07:53.500 Even if it started,
00:07:54.540 like,
00:07:54.840 I followed the Saudi moon sighting.
00:07:57.300 Okay,
00:07:57.880 I'm not going to come and say,
00:07:58.660 oh my gosh,
00:07:59.260 I fasted an extra day.
00:07:59.860 No.
00:08:00.800 Every action is based
00:08:01.960 on its intention, guys.
00:08:03.300 Even when it comes to
00:08:04.240 SubhanAllah,
00:08:04.620 brothers and sisters,
00:08:05.060 given in charity,
00:08:05.740 there was this whole thing
00:08:06.360 that happened with the charity sector,
00:08:07.620 scandal, etc.
00:08:08.540 Brothers and sisters,
00:08:09.580 your deeds are accepted.
00:08:11.820 Okay,
00:08:12.180 if somebody misused your charity,
00:08:13.660 whatever,
00:08:13.880 that's their fault.
00:08:14.720 And you shouldn't be reckless with this.
00:08:15.920 The same with this.
00:08:16.900 Just know,
00:08:17.500 for example,
00:08:17.880 if you go and eat a meat
00:08:19.440 that's not halal,
00:08:20.320 by accident,
00:08:21.480 stop bugging out.
00:08:22.740 It happened,
00:08:23.320 Khalas,
00:08:23.780 you're not to blame.
00:08:24.800 Okay,
00:08:25.380 SubhanAllah.
00:08:26.080 So,
00:08:26.720 be understanding
00:08:27.720 and be careful with this
00:08:28.780 and don't go into ridiculous stuff.
00:08:30.580 Use the month of Ramadan. 1.00
00:08:31.600 Do,
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00:08:41.540 if you're not praying salah.
00:08:42.880 Do acts of charity.
00:08:44.780 Okay,
00:08:45.460 do acts of charity
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00:08:54.980 Do that acts of charity.
00:08:56.320 Do tasmih. 1.00
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00:08:58.200 Do little acts.
00:08:59.240 Forget about
00:08:59.860 every action
00:09:02.200 is based on its intention.
00:09:03.380 If your reward action,
00:09:04.640 if your intention
00:09:05.100 were in the right place,
00:09:06.240 do that.
00:09:07.200 Not,
00:09:07.560 oh my gosh,
00:09:08.060 I did that,
00:09:08.440 et cetera.
00:09:09.120 SubhanAllah,
00:09:09.580 if you're doing moonsighting
00:09:10.520 in your local country,
00:09:11.580 do that.
00:09:12.560 It is halal.
00:09:13.900 Nobody can force you.
00:09:15.080 But to make a conspiracy now,
00:09:16.720 what are you going to say next?
00:09:17.880 SubhanAllah.
00:09:18.700 Yes,
00:09:18.900 what are you going to say next?
00:09:20.100 It was Mossad involved
00:09:21.200 in the moonsighting as well.
00:09:22.080 Come on,
00:09:22.280 let's not be ridiculous,
00:09:23.120 inshallah,
00:09:23.720 to that degree,
00:09:24.280 inshallah.
00:09:24.620 And it was spotted
00:09:26.220 in many different countries.
00:09:26.900 Shaykh Al-Farraq put it to bed,
00:09:28.140 inshallah.
00:09:28.820 The problem says,
00:09:29.220 let's make the most out of Ramadan.
00:09:30.380 Do not let shaitan 1.00
00:09:31.340 take the blessings of Ramadan
00:09:33.020 and the blessings
00:09:33.660 and get across to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
00:09:35.240 and start a new chapter
00:09:36.080 if you have been,
00:09:37.660 you know,
00:09:38.000 not praying or whatever it is
00:09:39.080 for shaitan
00:09:40.400 to make you get caught up
00:09:42.340 with this silly stuff,
00:09:43.240 inshallah.
00:09:43.820 May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 1.00
00:09:44.500 bless and preserve
00:09:45.480 every single one of you guys
00:09:46.160 and protect you guys,
00:09:46.840 inshallah,
00:09:47.060 and have a blessed Ramadan
00:09:47.800 and get close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
00:09:50.820 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
00:09:52.220 Hopefully this puts the whole matter to bed.