Marhaban ya Ramadhan. Selamat menjalankan ibadah puasa di bulan Ramadhan kepada yang menjalankannya. Semoga amal ibadah kita diterima oleh Allah SWT dan menjadikan kita insan yang bertakwa. Aamiin yra.
Tahun kemarin, tepat 1 hari sebelum Ramadhan dimulai, saya tiba di Brisbane. Dengan demikian, selain memulai Ramadhan kedua saya di sini, periode ini juga menandai 1 tahun keberadaan saya di the River City.
Berbeda dengan di Indonesia, pemerintah Australia tidak membuat penetapan resmi mengenai saat dimulainya Ramadhan. Sebuah lembaga resmi yang bisa menjadi acuan dalam penetapan Ramadhan di Australia adalah Cresecent Watch Australia yang melakukan pengamatan terhadap penampakan bulan. Berikut pengumuman penetapan 1 Ramadhan yang dimuat di laman resmi Crescent Watch Australia:
Welcome to CrescentWatch Australia, the official website for the Australian National Crescent Sighting Coordination Centre (ANCSCC)! This website will provide Muslim Australians with access to monthly crescent sighting results covering all regions of Australia. The website will also be an online resource for data, information and guidance, which will help understand the obligatory nature of crescent sighting every month to establish the Islamic Lunar Calendar.
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Ramadhan 1435 Sighting Results
The crescent was sighted in
, therefore the 1st of Ramadhan is
, the 29th of June, 2014. ANCSCC wishes you a Ramadhan MubarakIni tautan ke laman resmi Crescent Australia: http://crescentwatch-australia.alghazzali.org/
Ini jadwal sholat, imsakiyah dan ifthar selama bulan Ramadhan (catatan: tanggal mulai Ramadhan telah ditetapkan jatuh hari Minggu, 29 Juni 2014 bukan harii Sabtu, 28 Juni 2014 sebagaimana tertera di jadwal)
Pemerintah Australia sendiri dalam hal ini memberikan ucapan selamat menyambut Ramadhan kepada seluruh umat Islam di Australia. Berikut saya kutip pesan resmi dari Menteri Luar Negeri Julie Bishop, yang mewakili Pemerintah Australia, kepada umat Islam dalam menyambut Ramadhan.
Ramadan message
Media release
27 June 2014
I extend to Muslims in
, and throughout the world, best wishes for the holy month of Ramadan, which begins this week.Ramadan is a time for reflection, spiritual devotion and renewal. Muslim families around the world come together this month to celebrate their faith and their communities. By fasting, and through acts of charity, Muslims also remember those less fortunate than themselves.
In
, this month is an opportunity for us to honour the important contribution our Muslim brothers and sisters make to our nation. Muslim Australians have helped build a more diverse, more productive and more prosperous country for us all.Muslim citizens belong to over 60 ethnic groups, linking Australia to some 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide. These links underpin our trade, and our friendly relations, with Islamic nations.
As Australian Muslims celebrate Ramadan, many will be thinking of relatives suffering displacement, unrest and conflict in
and elsewhere. My thoughts are with them, and I share their hopes for peace.Ramadan offers a message of tolerance, compassion and hope – a universal message that everyone can share. Ramadan Mubarak.
Berikut adalah tautan resmi ke kutipan di atas: http://foreignminister.gov.au/releases/Pages/2014/jb_mr_140627a.aspx