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Exactly, sighting is the sunnah, it should be done.
Tech has a role to play in supporting the sighting, helping to indentify best times, locations, feasability of successful sighting, but the sighting is the sunnah, not the birth of the new moon.
Tell me this, if there was a moon to be sighted today but could not be seen due to overcast conditions should there or should there not be Eid tomorrow?
Holding on to something because it is "Sunnah" while a better method or practice keeps smacking you in the face is actually pretty stupid. Sunnah was also travelling on Camels, brushing your teeth with miswak, giving azan without the loudspeakers/megaphones, no air conditioning in the mosques, or about a million other things which you and I are happily willing to forfeit. Do you see how ridiculous your argument is? For exactly these matters Islam has a bonafide method called ijtehad.
If you want to follow it just because its Sunnah then by all means. Go to your roof top and sight the moon when your meteorological department tells you that the moon is going to be there. Just like people still use miswak because it's Sunnah but don't go on debating that it's more effective than toothpaste.
It is better we should keep moonsighting as simple and use naked eye for moonsighting as using technology will cost more so by using traditional methods we can avoid conflict and also extracosts
No it doesn't. That's why people who have no understanding of astronomy or even basic science should not be passing statements on it. That's why these illiterate mullahs should not have a say in it.
Calculating the lunar calendar will be easier and will cost nth times less than funding the escapades of these morons who only care about their 15 min of fame twice every year. This will also rid us of the dozens of times when these leeches have made the wrong call and either made us fast on Eid or made us lose a fast.
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