{"id":1721,"date":"2019-07-09T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T09:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T09:44:30","slug":"can-i-commence-the-sunnah-itikaaf-on-the-21st-night-of-ramadaan-instead-of-commencing-it-on-the-20th-night-of-ramadaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"Can I commence the Sunnah I&#8217;tikaaf on the 21st night of Ramadaan instead of commencing it on the 20th night of Ramadaan?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Can I commence the Sunnah I&#8217;tikaaf on the 21st night of Ramadaan instead of commencing it on the 20th night of Ramadaan?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. I will not be able to sit for Sunnah I\u2019tikaf from the 20<sup>th<\/sup> night of Ramadaan. Can I start my Sunnah I\u2019tikaf from the 21<sup>st<\/sup> night of Ramadaan? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>The time to observe the last ten nights of Sunnah I\u2019tikaaf commences from the 20<sup>th<\/sup> night of Ramadaan i.e. from Maghrib time and terminates on the sighting of the moon of Eid. Hence, in order for a person to complete the Sunnah I\u2019tikaaf of the last ten nights of Ramadaan , a person will have to avail himself at the Masjid on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> of Ramadaan prior to Maghrib time. If however, a person availed himself on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> of Ramadaan at the Masjid after Maghrib time (21<sup>st<\/sup> of Ramadaan), a person will not be able to observe the Sunnah I\u2019tikaaf of the last ten nights of Ramadaan. However, a person may make an intention for Nafl I\u2019tikaaf. Therefore, in the enquired case, if you wish to commence your Sunnah I\u2019tikaaf of the last ten nights of Ramadaan on the 21<sup>st<\/sup> night of Ramadaan, it will not be a valid Sunnah I\u2019tikaaf of ten nights and you will have to commence on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> night of Ramadaan for it to be valid. <strong>(Al-Bahrur-Raa\u2019iq 2\/329)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I commence the Sunnah I&#8217;tikaaf on the 21st night of Ramadaan instead of commencing it on the 20th night of Ramadaan?\u00a0 Q. I will not<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}