Saturday, January 20, 2007

Happy new Hijiri year "1428"

Happy new year to all the Muslims in the world

Today is the beginning of the New Hijiri year of "1428"

The Hijiri year as you know or most of you know is based upon the Islamic lunar calendar

The "Hijiri" word comes from the word "Hajara" "The immigration" which symbolized the immigration from Prophet Mohamed "PBUH" from Mecca and Medina ,already the Hijiri calendar numbering starts with that great important incident that is from 1428 years Prophet Mohamed "PBUH" immigrated from Mecca to Medina

The numbering of the years started in the Caliph "Omar Ibn El-Khatib" and the oldest record or document that exists now is an papyrus in Egypt that contains a Hijiri year ,I believe it can be found in the Islamic Museum in old Cairo

The "Hijiri" or Islamic calendar depends on the old Pre-Islamic Arabic Lunar calendar and thus the names of the months till now didn't change

The difference between the Islamic lunar year and the Gregorian solar year are 12 days

Today is the first day of the month "Moharram" which comes from the word "Haram" that is means in Arabic "prohibited" and this came from the fact that "Moharram" is from the four sanctified months of the year in which fighting is prohibited according to Islam , except on one condition that is defense ,it was already prohibited in pre-Islamic age and that's why was called "Moharram" as the Arab tribes before Islam were crazy about wars ,tribal wars could go for years and thus they needed a rest , Islam came and confirmed the prohibition of fighting of those month I believe to bring Peace between those fighting tribes

The month of "Moharram" is not also important from what it holds in being the first month of the year or as "Sanctified" month or from the fact that the Prophet "PBUH" immigration happened in it but also the Muslims celebrated "Ashurah" in and also the battle of Karbala happened on that day in that month ,of course Karbala was a turning point in the Islamic history as some says the Islamic world since it was divided between Sunni and Shiite ,already I will won't talk about it now ,I will take about it later insh Allah in "Ashurah" ,that is on the 10th day of the month :)

Happy New year to all Muslims again and I wish this year would be better for the Muslim world ,no fighting ,no poverty , a better hope to regain a lost glory insh Allah

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