Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- Time seems to run faster than usual nowadays. By tomorrow (Saturday) or a day after (Sunday), Muslims all over the world will start Ramadan fasting, which beginning is signaled and heralded by the appearance of the crescent. The date for the commencement of Ramadan cannot be fixed. But intelligent and informed guess could be made about its commencement by Islamic scholars who busy themselves with studying and taking records of the moon as it waxes and wanes.

I am aware that some clerics who claim to be authority in Islam do fix date for the commencement of Ramadan. This is sheer ignorance. Following these kinds of clerics only gives wings to pseudo clericalism. One should be wary of these categories of clerics. They h...