There is some controversy about moonsighting. This should not come as a shock. It comes around on the calendar every year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
New Crescent Society said it hadn\u2019t been spotted (via X)<\/a>; Inside the Haramain<\/a> (via X) made an announcement. I have written about this issue for many years, which has played out online. Whatever your view, I wish you a profitable Dhul Hijjah. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is some controversy about moonsighting. This should not come as a shock. It comes around on the calendar every year. New Crescent Society said it hadn\u2019t been spotted (via X); Inside the Haramain (via X) made an announcement. I have written about this issue for many years, which has played out online. Whatever your…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,853,112],"tags":[856,299,855,55],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hajj","category-moonsighting","category-pilgrimage","tag-calendar","tag-hajj","tag-moonsighting","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6994,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions\/6994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}