{"id":13762,"date":"2025-05-28T07:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13762"},"modified":"2025-05-28T07:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:14:53","slug":"dhul-hijjah-crescent-moon-sighted-in-saudi-arabia-and-new-zealand-to-sight-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13762","title":{"rendered":"Dhul Hijjah crescent moon sighted in Saudi Arabia and New Zealand to sight Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-highlight\">\n<ul>\n<li>Day of Arafah to be observed on June 5<\/li>\n<li>Eid Al-Adha will fall on June 6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2602375\/saudi-arabia\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>RIYADH: The crescent moon for the Islamic month of Dhul Hijjah, during which the annual Hajj pilgrimage takes place, has been sighted, the Supreme Court announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the pilgrimage \u2014 which all healthy and wealthy Muslims are required to undertake once in a lifetime \u2014 will start on June 4 with the pilgrims gathering in the Tent City of Mina. The day of Arafah will fall on June 5.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims who are not performing the pilgrimage this year will celebrate Eid Al-Adha on June 6.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court urged Muslims across the Kingdom to look out for the crescent moon on Tuesday \u2014 Dhu Al-Qa\u2019dah 29 \u2014 and report any sightings as soon as possible to their nearest court.<\/p>\n<p data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen109681369_148=\"5311\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen109681369_148=\"5311\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired109681369_148=\"1\">The Kingdom has announced a weeklong Eid holiday for both public and private sector workers.<\/p>\n<p data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen109681369_148=\"5311\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen109681369_148=\"5311\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired109681369_148=\"1\">Mean while for New Zealand sighting will take place tonight.<\/p>\n<p data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen109681369_148=\"5311\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen109681369_148=\"5311\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired109681369_148=\"1\">SOURCE ARAB NEWS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day of Arafah to be observed on June 5 Eid Al-Adha will fall on June 6 RIYADH: The crescent moon for the Islamic month of Dhul Hijjah, during which the annual Hajj pilgrimage takes place, has been sighted, the Supreme Court announced on Tuesday. This means that the pilgrimage \u2014 which all healthy and wealthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13764,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762\/revisions\/13764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}