A blessed month has come to us, a month whose arrival we rejoice in despite the pain, sorrow, and calamities we experience. A month about whose blessings and greatness are mentioned in many verses and hadiths: including the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, about the first night of Ramadan:

The autumn of 2024 in Kyrgyzstan marked a transitional moment, from dictatorship, to a brutal totalitarian system. Not so long ago, many analysts spoke of Kyrgyzstan as ‘an island of democracy in Central Asia’, but today it has turned into another prison of the Kremlin's peoples.

In these verses, Allah (swt) demonstrates how He (swt) strengthens those who believe, in their encounters with the tyrants, and how the arguments of the disbelievers are rejected and invalid. Then Allah (swt) elucidates some of the evidence of His (swt) greatness in creating His (swt) creations, and His (swt) ability to resurrect the dead, affirming that Allah (swt) is All-Mighty and All-Wise...

The sighting of the moon is a matter of difference of opinion. The Ulema of Hanifi, Maliki and Hanbali opine that a single sighting in any land, or any region of a shared sunset (mutaala'a مَطْلَع), suffices for all regions. Some of the Shafii Ulema disagree with this opinion about the differing of shared sunset regions (plural مُطالِع), but not all of the Shafii Ulema disagree. May Allah (swt) accept…