abduljiva

What does it all mean?

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.

[🙂 @has147_]

Today is the launch of my very first book, Alahazrat's War on Innovation.

Please attend The Grand Alahazrat Conference in Manchester today, and honour the occasion with your presence and support.

It would mean a great deal to see so many of you there.

الحمد لله

[Heena Lotus @intrepidlotus]

“The deal ends the war on all fronts” yet Gaza, the most important front of all, is being bombed at 5am in the morning.

[abduljiva @abduljiva]

@SonnyBWilliams Was a pleasure to meet you there in 2024

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

We’re at the point in the genocide where the killings don’t even make headlines anymore. The world has normalised Gaza’s horror.

[abduljiva @abduljiva]

@asabbas98 Yep, sometimes up north we can get them all in one day

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

23 years ago today in Gaza, British photographer Tom Hurndall was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper while trying to protect Palestinian children.

Humanity will never forget him

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Israel is now doing to Lebanon what it did, and is doing, to Gaza.

War crimes every single day.

[Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

They're still murdering Palestinians in Gaza every day as well, just in case anyone gives a fuck.

[Bani @lunalunabraga]

Gaza is being bombed nonstop. Palestinians are dying every day and I don’t see anyone speaking about this anymore. Do you all feel the rage I feel? When are we going to do something to stop it?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is an insanely racist and bigoted thing to say about an entire community from a supposedly mainstream British journalist. You wouldn’t be able to say anything like this about any other minority community. Just Muslims.

[abduljiva @abduljiva]

@remorse2025

[Muslim Bibliophile @MuslimBibliophi]

Re: Moonsighting Fiasco [February 17/18, 2026!]

By now, it should be clear that lunar observatories in most Middle Eastern countries rely on infrared (IR) imaging to detect the crescent within the IR-spectrum during the day (see: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Bahrain, and Jordan: https://t.co/Q6Sa8l4yHL). Unlike visible spectrum sighting, IR enables daytime detection, even at the moment of conjunction. This technique was famously demonstrated by the 2013 daytime IR crescent from France (a method since adopted across the Gulf): https://t.co/l4medSYbzv. This methodology was further confirmed by Br. Simwal (of the National Moonsighting Committee of Nigeria: https://t.co/dKXECoQpFD). While I haven’t yet found a public press release showing an IR crescent image from February 17 (they seem to have released it for the following morning! link above), the underlying technical capability is well-established.

It is important to note that the infrared/IR spectrum (thermal radiation) is invisible to the naked eye and requires specialized sensors. By using this method, one can observe an "IR crescent" on the day of conjunction without fail, even with a separation of only 1°. Sufficient image processing, integration time, and denoising can yield a detection (because IR scatters less than visible light, Rayleigh scattering: I_scatter ~ 1/lambda^4). This explains why Saudi Arabia consistently announces sightings despite visibility plots suggesting otherwise; their reports align with the pre-calculated Umm Al-Qura calendar (https://t.co/bnhtZIMSJ2), which is based on conjunction rather than optical visibility.

That being said, a lot of people miss this, but in astronomy, certain phenomena are deterministic and can be calculated with extreme precision (years in advance):
1. Sunset and sunrise
2. Moonset and moonrise
3. Solar and lunar orbital motions
4. Solar zenith and conjunction
However, other phenomena are probabilistic and require empirical confirmation; the primary example is the first visibility of the crescent moon. (Other phenomena, like the onset of Fajr or Isha, are also probabilistic but tend to gain certainty over time.)

So, while visibility plots (https://t.co/DqBRZ9BGMw) and sunset/moonset timings (https://t.co/m4WE6j4AmX) can be used to rule out impossible reports, the mere presence of a "visibility band" over a geographic location does not guarantee a sighting; it still requires human confirmation. Furthermore, these visibility bands are often misunderstood because the map itself represents a spherical Earth projected onto a flat plane, often viewed through the narrow window of UTC or the International Date Line (which is arbitrary: see 1/ and 2/ https://t.co/qO9OAwEa39 ).

Consequently, it is scientifically inaccurate to claim that a sighting in one location automatically begins the new month for all "global sighting" adherents within a UTC/International window. A more physics-based approach would be that only locations/timezones west of the confirmed sighting, within that probabilistic band, can validly invoke a global sighting (harmonizing both local and global). Advocates of Global sighting should recognize that medieval scholars' opinions on global sighting did not account for the scope of the globe, time zones, etc. So scholars should not lazily juxtapose traditional global sighting opinions without factoring in the physics mentioned above.

So, while these nuances could be factored into modern calculations, the science is often misapplied by calculation advocates to force alignment with the Umm Al-Qura calendar. For example, the ISNA calculation method dictates that if a conjunction occurs anywhere in the world before 12:00 UTC and there is a possibility of a sighting (https://t.co/geLQdOAVTf), as was the case this year - it was over the Pacific Ocean in the Feb. 17 UTC window, they will declare the new month (https://t.co/DqBRZ9BGMw). These arbitrary rules conveniently sync the ISNA calendar with Saudi Arabia’s IR-based sightings and Umm Al-Qura conjunction-based calendar. This also explains why ISNA/Saudi calendars line up all the time!

This creates immense social pressure for Muslims and Crescent committees who follow either global or local naked-eye sightings. Every year, a discrepancy arises:
1. Ramadan begins on a different day, but Eids align (e.g., 2026).
2. Ramadan begins together, but the Eids diverge (e.g., 2025).

Therefore, I advocate for a scientifically grounded approach that remains in line with normative Sunni tradition. What we are seeing now is a misapplication of science. We are essentially repeating the shift the Jewish community made during the post-Second Temple period under Hillel II: moving toward declaring the month based solely on conjunction (Ref: https://t.co/KpzRgi69Ip), a paradigm the Prophet pbuh would have been familiar with, yet explicitly rejected in favor of observation. As a physicist, I find this departure from empirical observation tragic.

Allahu Alam.

@Crescentwatch @NewCrescentSoc @CentralHilalCmt @hilal_council @HilalCommittee @Haqiqatjou @BrOmarChatila @hmph531258 @issa033 @MuftiAbdullah @HaroonSidat @Simwal @DrShadeeElmasry @JosephLumbard @DrShoaibAM @RamonIHarvey @belugaleuca @MfIsmailMoosa @BinhamidAli @Mufti_Muhammad_ @MuftiARM

[abduljiva @abduljiva]

@DillyHussain88 @stephenpollard the most worrying part is Pollard referring to Fiyaz as a 'friend'

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️BREAKING: After being released by Israel, 54 bodies and 66 boxes containing Palestinian human remains arrived at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza, handed over this evening via the Red Cross.

For the first time, the handover included not only intact bodies but mutilated remains, showing that the targeting did not stop at killing, but extended to the desecration of the human body even after death.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

WE WON

The General Medical Council Tribunal has thrown out the complaint made by UK Lawyers for Israel, accusing me of support of violence and terrorism and antisemitism.

[abduljiva @abduljiva]

@DrShadeeElmasry A man has to have some pleasures in life

[abduljiva @abduljiva]

@Kopiteblock105 @johnwwilliams @YoungBobTPUK So if someone took a similar view to this regarding Hillsborough you wouldn’t take issue?

[abduljiva @abduljiva]

@Kopiteblock105 @johnwwilliams @YoungBobTPUK so, you believe the sporting boycott of aparthied South Africa was wrong?

[abduljiva @abduljiva]

@MHuseinQadri Probably because they’re trick or treating after madrassa

[abduljiva @abduljiva]

@GuzKhanOfficial @AssedBaig help a brother out