Assalamu alaikum wa'rahamatullaahi wa'barkatuhu!
Islam has a lunar based calendar with 354.367 days {354 days plus eight hours
plus 48.5 minutes}. The New Year date also changes every year as the Islamic
Calendar is 11 days shorter than the solar calendar. During the second
caliphate of 'Hadrat Umar ul-Faaruuq {raziallaahu ta'aalaa anhu}, the first day
of the month of Muharram of that year, which was sixty-six days before the
Hijrat, became the beginning of the Muslims' HIJRII KAMARII CALENDAR. Islamic
New Year is celebrated on the first day of Muharram {first Islamic month}. The
word Muharram also means respect. It is more of a cultural event than a New
Year celebration.
It is Sunna to fast on Ninth {9th} and Tenth {10th} days of Muharram and It's
Makruuh to fast only on Tenth {10th} day of Muharram.
All Muslims welcome the New Year with peace and prayers.
May Allaahu ta'aalaa have us all keep to the right path shown by the scholars
of Ahl as-Sunna!
May he protect us from believing in the false, deceitful, insidious lies of the
enemies of Islam and of the non-madhhabii people using the name `great scholar
of Islam'!
May He redeem the unlucky people who have slipped into these paths from this
perdition!
May All types of benedictions be pronounced over Hadrat Muhammad Mustafa
{sallallaahu ta'aalaa alaihi wa'sallam}, who is His Prophet and the most
beloved, the most virtuous, the most valuable of the entire creation and over
all of his Aal {household} and As-haab {companions}, who were his helpers and
beloved ones {alaihimus-salawaatu wa-t-tasliimaat}!
Aameen summa Aameen bijaahi Saiyyidil Mursaleen {sallallaahu ta'aalaa alaihi
wa'sallam}!
