{"id":112825,"date":"2026-05-17T11:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=112825"},"modified":"2026-05-17T11:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:07:28","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-sight-dhul-hijjah-moon-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/saudi-arabia-to-sight-dhul-hijjah-moon-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to sight Dhul-Hijjah moon Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYAD: A meeting of the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will be held today to sight the moon of<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/zil-hijjah-2026-moon-sighting-meeting-scheduled-for-may-17\/\"> Dhul-Hijjah 1447 AH<\/a> in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Saudi News Agency, the Saudi Supreme Court has appealed to citizens to try to sight the moon of Dhul-Hijjah this evening and submit the testimony to the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers say that there is a clear possibility of seeing the moon of Dhul-Hijjah in Saudi Arabia today. If the moon is sighted, the important days of Eid al-Adha and Hajj will be officially announced.<\/p>\n<p>Monday, May 18, is likely to be declared as the first day of Dhul-Hijjah in Saudi Arabia, under which the most important part of the Hajj rituals, the Wukuf Arafa, will be performed on Tuesday, May 26, while Eid al-Adha will be celebrated on Wednesday, May 27.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Suparco has predicted that the moon of Dhul Hijjah is likely to be sighted in Pakistan on May 17, thus Eid-ul-Adha is strongly expected to be on May 27. The Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will make a final announcement regarding the sighting of the moon of Dhul Hijjah this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYAD: A meeting of the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will be held today to sight the moon of Dhul-Hijjah 1447 AH in Saudi Arabia. According to the Saudi News Agency, the Saudi Supreme Court has appealed to citizens to try to sight the moon of Dhul-Hijjah this evening and submit the testimony to the relevant authorities. Astronomers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":66623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42278,39230,42277],"class_list":["post-112825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-saudi-arabia-dhul-hijjah-moon","tag-saudi-arabia-hajj","tag-saudi-arabia-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112826,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112825\/revisions\/112826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}