Assalamu alaikum WR WB,
Please note that Muharram 1430H began on Sunday. So Monday is the 9th and
Tuesday is the 10th of Muaharram.
Wassalam,
Ali manikfan
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:21 PM, <"Syed Quddusi Shah Aamiri"> wrote:
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> Assalamu alaikum wa'rahamatullaahi wa'barkatuhu!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> All Muslims welcome the New Year with peace and prayers.
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> May Allaahu ta'aalaa have us all keep to the right path shown by the
> scholars of Ahl as-Sunna!
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> 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'!
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> May He redeem the unlucky people who have slipped into these paths from
> this perdition!
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> 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}!
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> Aameen summa Aameen bijaahi Saiyyidil Mursaleen {sallallaahu ta'aalaa
> alaihi wa'sallam}!
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