Muslim New Years

A News segment directed by Fahmi Farahat, which aired on CSUF's "On The Edge".

The Islamic New Year is a cultural event which Muslims partake on the first day of Muharram, the first month in the Islamic calendar. Many Muslims use the day to remember the significance of this month, and the Hijra, or emigration, Islamic prophet Muhammad made to the city now known as Medina. Recently, in many areas of Muslim population, people have begun exchanging cards and gifts on this day. Though this is not commonly done.
Since the Islamic lunar calendar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year, Muharram migrates throughout the seasons. The estimated start dates for Muharram are as follows (all future dates are estimates and depend on sightings of the new moon), though strictly speaking the month starts at sunset on previous day:
1428 AH: 20 January 2007
1429 AH: 10 January 2008
1430 AH: 29 December 2008
1431 AH: 18 December 2009
1432 AH: 7 December 2010
1433 AH: 26 November 2011
1434 AH: 15 November 2012

Category:

News & Politics

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• Fahmi
• Farahat
• CSUF
• Titan
• communication
• New
• year
• Muslim
• islam
• lunar
• calendar
• Rashad
• Aldabbagh

[RPG7V]

1 Question iam muslim btw i just want to know more about the muslim calender so the question is when will the muslim calender or it nvr ends?.

[Famtheman]

Dear Friend,

glad you enjoyed the video. the Muslim calendar does not end, you just keep adding one every year. not it's the year 1425 or something like that.

[groundzerobuild]

we must kill all infidels in the name of Islam!

[TAPS711]

Go Israel Go

[TAPS711]

Peace and may the terrorists bomb themselves with 72 bombs.

[ristopp]

My crystal ball says he's both retarded and deluded muslim, but those two go without saying ;)

[Sakabatou1821]

So whats the point of this video? when you make a video response the rule is that you talk about the same thing that the video you responded to did. WTF? Capnawesome says Mohamed sucks and you respond with The muslims got their own calendar? Are you retarded? or just another deluded muslim?