Day 0 - My effort to see Ramadan Moon

Image by Marlon Malabanan

I stepped out of my home in Mirdif, Dubai in an effort to see Ramadan moon (crescent) immediately after Maghreb prayers with my sons Tahir & Tayyab. We kept looking at the spot where we expected the moon to appear for 15-20 minutes with no luck.

I decided to take help from technology, and whipped out my Android phone and downloaded the "Google Sky Map". it detected my location by default and pointed me to a certain point in the sky. I immediately tracked down the moon and disappointingly enough, it was below the horizon already. I already knew that it was too late but tried the "time travel" feature of the app and found out that moon will continue to go further down and there is no point in waiting. 

It is already announced that Ramadan will be tomorrow so this quest was only symbolic in nature. 

Isha Prayer today is 8:29 PM

Tomorrow's prayer timings are as following:

FAJR:  04:25

SHURUQ: 05:45

DUHR 12:30

ASR 15:56

MAGHRIB 19:08

ISHA 20:38

All timings are Dubai.

Off for the prayers.

Allah Hafiz