Shawwal – On the first day of this month Eid-ul Fitr is celebrated.ġ2. Ramadhan – The month in which the Holy Qur’an started to be revealed and the month in which the Muslims fast.ġ0. It is for this reason that the beginning of Ramadan. Rabi-ul-Awwal The month of the Holy Prophet’s birth, Hijrah and death.Ġ9. The Gregorian calendar is based on the solar year, whereas the Hijri calendar is based on the lunar year. They depend on the sightings of the first crescent of the new moon. Muharram (S) The first month of the Islamic calendarĠ3. The Islamic months are either 29 or 30 days long. These sacred months are marked by an (S) below:Ġ1. The Hijri Months of the Islamic calendar, which begin with Muharram and end with Dhul Hijjah, is divided into 12 parts. However, in order to keep the time fields in this class synchronized with those of the other calendars and with local clock time, we treat days and months. Even in pre-Islamic days, four of these months were considered sacred and no fighting was permitted during that period. The Hijri calendar consists of the following 12 months in numerical order: Muharram Safar Rabi Al-Awwal Rabi Al-Thani Jamada Al-Awwal Jamada Al-Thani. The fact that the lunar year has approximately ten days less than the solar year, brings an Islamic anniversary ten days ahead each year in the solar calendar.įollowing are the names of the Islamic months. Complete Islamic months name are as follows. On an average, there are 355 days in a lunar year. There are a total of 12 Islamic months according to Hijri calendar or Gregorian calendar. In their religious practice, Muslims follow the Islamic calendar which consists of twelve lunar months.
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