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A decade long research by Moonsighting.com found that any fixed degree is not correct for Subh-Sadiq or disappearance of Shafaq. The Subh-Sadiq and Shafaq are functions of latitude and seasons (day number of the solar year). All collected observations from different latitudes were plotted against day number of the year. With curve-fit technique, moonsighting.com came up with a function of latitude and seasons. In 2007 independent Muslim scientists in Pakistan also confirmed that degrees fluctuate with seasons.
For more infos see : http://www.moonsighting.com/

I forwarded this to 2 ulama from wifaqululama who kindly responded.

Mufti Sajid:
"Khalid Shoukat's research on salat times is full of misinformation and discrepancies. After numerous attempts to contact khalid shaukat to the errors on his website (moonsighting.com) he has failed to reply and respond, he has not replied to any of my questions put before him till this day"

Molana Farid:
"We have asked to see this decade long research on a number of occasions. The observations mentioned on the website are sporadic and unverified. The only observations that we have from Khalid's Shaukat's formula are Hizbul Ulama's. The timetable produced by Khalid Shaukat do not coincide with the observations done by Hizbul Ulama.

The observations are available on my website and can be compared to the Moonsighting.com times. You will find that they are quite different.

Our request to Khalid Shaukat are that he provides his decade long research and that the Ulama look at this thoroughly so that a fair and verified judgement is made.

Currently, it is not verified and suspect to say the least."

For the discrepancies of Moonsighting.com please click on this thread : (I will post this later on inshallah)