According to
Hijra calendar Eid ul Azha will take place on August 12, 2019 Monday and first Moharram will fall on September 01 Sunday.
The bench of PHC Chief Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth and Justice Abdul Shakoor was hearing a writ petition filed by a freelance journalist Shahid Orakzai, seeking directives of the court for the government to liquidate the committee and to declare that its chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman was not competent to regulate the
Hijra calendar.
The
Hijra calendar depends on moon's motion on its orbit around the earth while the Gregorian calendar depends on earth's motion on its orbit around the sun.
Kuwaitis also celebrate advent of Ramadhan by holding a feast in the final day of Shaa'ban, in the
Hijra calendar. Women and children used to go to sea to spend a day swimming and having good times.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the 12-month
Hijra Calendar, and because of the cycle of the lunar calendar, the shift of the Muslims' fasting period varies each year by approximately 11 days, when compared to the solar-based Gregorian calendar.
THOUSANDS CELEBRATE THE NIGHT: Muslims throughout Turkey celebrated Berat Kandili on Monday, considered to be a night when Muslims are graced with divine mercy and blessings.The Night of Forgiveness (Berat Kandili/Leylet-ul-Bera'at), observed on the night between the 14th and 15th days of Sha'ban -- the eighth month of the
Hijra calendar -- was commemorated with prayers tonight by Muslims around Turkey.
Jeddah, Rabi'I 10, 1436, Jan 1, 2015, SPA -- Minister of Labor Adel bin Mohammed Faqih today said that the enforcement of Nitaqat (zones) program on private sector companies resulted in the employment of some 750,000 Saudi nationals in the private sector by the beginning of the
Hijra calendar, an increase to 15.6 percent, up from seven percent.
I am perplexed at the way you explain how the
Hijra calendar works.
Hassan said the Islamic
Hijra calendar is based on lunar cycle and have 354 or 355 days in a year.
However, the idiosyncratic nature of Qaddafi who subordinated Islam to his personal view of unorthodox religious reforms departing from the norm, such as his unilateral amendment of the
Hijra calendar, led to hostile relation between his government and many Islamists.
The interior of the Kaaba is washed twice a year -- in Muharram and Shaaban, the first and ninth months of the
Hijra calendar. The Kaaba, which is located inside the sprawling Grand Mosque complex, is central to the Islamic faith as Muslims all over the world face it while performing daily prayers.
According to historian Essam Abdel-Raouf, the tradition of making konafa started around year 58 in the
Hijra calendar (early eighth century AD), when the Damascus-based Muslim ruler Mu'aweya Bin Abi Sufeyan complained of fatigue and dizziness during Ramadan.