Everything else on this page is about the app: how it counts the month, and what it has for it.
The dates, by Sabīl’s calculated calendar
With the Hijri date left as calculated, the calendar gives:
- 1 Ramaḍān 1448: Monday 8 February 2027.
- A month of 29 days. The 29th is Monday 8 March 2027.
- 1 Shawwāl 1448: Tuesday 9 March 2027.
These are calculated dates, and no sighting of the moon goes into them. Sabīl works out the Hijri date with the Umm al-Qurā reckoning, which is a calculated calendar. It carries no table of dates of its own: it reads the Umm al-Qurā calendar built into the phone or browser it runs on. The figures above are what that calendar gave where this page was prepared; the app shows what the calendar on your own device gives.
The app says so where it shows these dates. Under the headline of the Ramaḍān screen, and under the list of days ahead in the Hijri calendar, it prints: “Calculated dates. The day itself is confirmed by the sighting of the moon where you live.” So 8 February is what the calculation gives, and not a statement of when the month will begin.
If the date where you live differs
Settings has a section named “Hijri date” with five choices: “As calculated”, and a shift of one or two days either way. Its note reads: “The date is calculated (Umm al-Qurā). To follow a local moon sighting, shift it by a day or two.”
The shift moves the Hijri dates the app shows by that many days: on Today, on the Ramaḍān screen, in the Hijri calendar and in the Hijri column of the prayer timetable. At +1 the app’s 1 Ramaḍān 1448 is 7 February 2027; at −1 it is 9 February.
The shift does not change the length the calendar gives a month. Under each of the five choices the app’s Ramaḍān 1448 has 29 days. How long the month is where you live is settled by the sighting or announcement there. For that, the table on the Ramaḍān screen has a thirtieth row, described below.
When the app’s Hijri day turns
On the Today screen the Hijri date moves on at the Maghrib calculated for your place; the date carries the note “The Hijri day begins at Maghrib.” So by the calculated calendar, Today reads 30 Shaʿbān 1448 on Sunday 7 February 2027 until Maghrib, and 1 Ramaḍān 1448 after it. The Ramaḍān screen counts by the calendar date at your place instead: its headline changes at midnight there, from “Ramaḍān begins tomorrow” to “Day 1 of Ramaḍān”, and each row of its table is one date with the two times of that date.
The Ramaḍān screen
Ramaḍān is one screen, and it changes with the month. Before the month it shows a countdown, “Ramaḍān begins in … days”, and a date beside the words “First fast:”; from thirty days before, the Today screen carries a card that leads to it. During the month it shows the day’s two times in large figures, “Suḥūr ends” with Fajr and “Ifṭār” with Maghrib, and counts down to whichever comes next. Today shows the same two times on a card.
The two times
“Suḥūr ends” is the Fajr and “Ifṭār” the Maghrib that the app’s prayer-time calculation gives for your place, under the calculation method in use. The Ramaḍān screen adds nothing of its own to either, and says: “Shown here: the start of Fajr and the start of Maghrib as calculated for your place, with no margin added. Where your masjid announces its own times, follow those.” Where a method itself sets Maghrib some minutes after sunset, that is part of the calculation; How Sabīl calculates prayer times sets out the twelve methods.
The month’s timetable and the record of the days
Below the times is a table under the heading “The thirty days”. It always has thirty rows, each with a day’s number and date, “Suḥūr ends” and “Ifṭār”. Where the calculated calendar gives the month 29 days, as it does for 1448, the thirtieth row carries the words “If the month is thirty days”, with the date and the two times of the day after the 29th: by the calculated calendar, Tuesday 9 March 2027. The table is there before the month begins, for the coming Ramaḍān. “Print the timetable” prints it under the Hijri year and the name of your place.
On the day of that thirtieth row the screen stays with the month. Its headline is “Ramaḍān”, it shows the day’s two times, and it says: “By the calculated calendar this Ramaḍān ended yesterday, at twenty-nine days. Where the month is counted as thirty, today is the thirtieth fast. Follow the sighting or the announcement where you live.” The Today screen keeps its Ramaḍān card that day, headed “Ramaḍān 1448 AH”, with the words “If the month is thirty days” and the day’s two times. Whether that day is a fast where you live is not the app’s to say, and this page does not say it.
The same table is a record. Each day has three marks: “Fast”, “Night prayer” and “Portion”, the last for the day’s portion of Qur’ān. A tap on “Fast” marks it kept, a second tap marks it missed, and a third clears it. A day that has not come yet cannot be marked. The screen counts the fasts marked kept and those marked missed; beside the second count a link, “What is owed for a missed fast”, leads to one of the library’s Ramaḍān cards. This page does not restate that card.
A heavier line and the words “Odd night” stand on the rows of days 21, 23, 25, 27 and 29; in the code the mark stands for the night before that day. By the calculated calendar, day 21 is Sunday 28 February 2027.
Under the table the app says, in its own words, where the record is kept. Signed out: “Private, and kept only on this phone. No streaks and no comparing yourself with anyone.” Signed in: “Kept on this phone and in your Sabīl account.” Two buttons there switch between this Ramaḍān and the one before it.
Cards from the library
Below the times, and again under the heading “The last ten nights”, the screen shows cards from the library’s Ramaḍān title, each marked “Scholarly review: pending”. At the foot it links to all the Ramaḍān cards, the masjid poster, the khatm planner and the Zakāt calculator.
The other tools for the month
- Salah shows today’s prayer times for your place and names the method in use.
- Prayer times by city has today’s times and this month’s timetable for the cities Sabīl knows by name.
- The prayer timetable gives one calendar month of prayer times for any place on a printable page, with a column for the Hijri day. By the calculated calendar Ramaḍān 1448 lies across February and March 2027, so on two of its pages.
- The khatm planner divides the muṣḥaf evenly across the number of days you choose, counted on the 604-page Madinah muṣḥaf. Thirty days is one of its presets, and any other number can be typed. Each day’s row opens the Qur’ān reader at that day’s first page.
- The Zakāt calculator is the library’s Zakāt Worksheet with the arithmetic done. You enter the price of gold and of silver yourself; Sabīl does not fetch prices.
- The Hijri calendar shows a Hijri month with its local dates, and converts a date either way. Its list of days ahead includes 1 Ramaḍān, 21 Ramaḍān and 1 Shawwāl.
Two tools a reader may look for are not in the app. The Tools page lists “Zakāt al-fiṭr” and a “Fidyah & kaffārah calculator” as on the way. The second is marked “Board first”, which the app explains as waiting for a written ruling from its Shariah board.
What the library says about the month
What Sabīl says about the month itself is in its library, and the library’s scholarly review is pending. This page quotes one card and links to the rest.
The Pocket Companion has a card headed “Ramaḍān”. Its first line, labelled “The month”, names five things in a few words each: the fast, Tarāwīḥ, Laylat al-Qadr, i‘tikāf and Zakāt al-Fiṭr. The library cites that line to al-Bukhārī and Muslim, with the grade ṣaḥīḥ. Under “Breaking the fast” the card has a du‘ā, which the library cites to Abū Dāwūd with the grade ḥasan. Under “Laylat al-Qadr” it has another, cited to at-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah with the grade ṣaḥīḥ (one later grader calls it weak, as the page on the last ten nights sets out); its source line says it was taught to ‘Ā’ishah for that night.
The rest is in three titles:
Some of their lines state rulings, and the library’s own checking has open questions about some lines of the Ramaḍān cards and the poster. This page does not summarise them.
What this page leaves to a scholar
What breaks a fast, who is excused from it, what is owed for a fast that was missed, how much zakāt al-fiṭr is, how the night prayer is prayed: this page answers none of these. They are questions for a scholar. Answers gathers some questions people ask, answered in the library’s own words.
References
Verse of the Qur’ān, shown above: 2:185.
The calendar: the Umm al-Qurā calendar as the device’s own date library gives it (in the app’s code, lib/hijri.ts, the calendar named islamic-umalqura); the prayer times behind “Suḥūr ends” and “Ifṭār” are those of the calculation methods set out, with their published definitions, in How Sabīl calculates prayer times.
From the Sabīl library: the Pocket Companion, the card “Ramaḍān”, whose du‘ās the library cites to Abū Dāwūd and to at-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah: Sunan Abī Dāwūd 2357; Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 3513 and Sunan Ibn Mājah 3850, as sunnah.com numbers them (one later grader calls the last two weak); the Ramaḍān cards, the Ramaḍān poster and the Zakāt Worksheet, linked, not quoted.
The note under 2:185 is the edition’s own words, not this page’s.
Where to go next
- Ramaḍān: the countdown and the timetable now, the two times and the record during the month.
- The du‘ā for breaking the fast.
- The last ten nights of Ramaḍān and Laylat al-Qadr.
- How Sabīl calculates prayer times, for what stands behind “Suḥūr ends” and “Ifṭār”.