Tonight, Muslims survey the crescent of the holy month, and this survey is a confirmation of the appearance of the crescent of the month of fasting and adherence to the customs and traditions of the Egyptians.

Let’s go back together to know when that night appeared and where? The first to survey the month of Ramadan were the Egyptians, as he says to Imam Al-Suyuti in one of his books and talks about the history of Cairo, that Judge Ghouth bin Suleiman Al-Hadrami, the chief judge in Egypt during the era of Abu Jaafar Al-Mansur Al-Abbasi, is the first Whoever went out to see the crescent in Egypt, the lunar crescent continued to be seen with the naked eye and did not change except in the Fatimid era. Where the Fatimids used to calculate it astronomically, and the reconnaissance vision continued until now.

In the Mamluk era, the Egyptian used to explore the crescents of the Hijri months through the minaret of the group that was built by al-Mansur Qalawun al-Mamluki, and it is among the customs of the Egyptians that they participate with the judges in seeing the crescent of Ramadan, whether it is among the merchants and owners of professions and crafts. A wonderful procession loaded with lanterns, candles and torches until it reaches its house, then the sects disperse in their neighborhoods declaring the month of fasting..

In the era of Muhammad Ali and on the outskirts of the twentieth century, proof of the crescent moved to the Sharia court. People’s sects continued to participate in the sighting of the crescent of Ramadan. Where the procession leaves from the governorate of Egypt to the Sharia court, it is preceded by music and soldiers with their drums, until if the sighting of the crescent is confirmed, rockets and fireworks are launched, cannons are fired, minarets are lit, then the sighting procession passes throughout the country announcing fasting..

And after the establishment of the first astronomical observatory in the year 1838 AD in the castle, then it was moved to Abbasiya under the name of Al-Rasd Khana, after which it was moved to Helwan in the year 1903 AD because it could not be seen from the Abbasiya area. Egypt continued working with the naked eye reconnaissance system until 1956 AD, then the crescent sighting reconnaissance system with the naked eye was canceled and replaced by the astronomical calculations system, and the reason for that was the density of clouds.