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Tasu'a is the ninth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, a month in which fighting has been forbidden since before the advent of Islam. [1] [2] Tasu'a is followed by Ashura, tenth of Muharram, which marks the death of Husayn ibn Ali, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the third Shia imam. [3]
Writers have traditionally written abbreviated dates according to their local custom, creating all-numeric equivalents to day–month formats such as "26 December 2024" (26/12/24, 26/12/2024, 26-12-2024 or 26.12.2024) and month–day formats such as "December 26, 2024" (12/26/24 or 12/26/2024). This can result in dates that are impossible to ...
The Islamic calendar is a lunar one, where each month begins when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. The Islamic year consists of 12 lunar cycles, and consequently it is 10 to 11 days shorter than the solar year, and as it contains no intercalation, [a] Ramadan migrates throughout the seasons.
The word Ramadan derives from the Arabic root R-M-Ḍ (ر-م-ض) "scorching heat", [28] which is the Classical Arabic verb "ramiḍa (رَمِضَ)" meaning "become intensely hot – become burning; become scorching; be blazing; be glowing".
[18] [19] Whatever the case is for their origins, such festivities were firmly established by the time of the Sunni jurist Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328), to whom a questioner wrote, observing that people are joyful on Ashura; they bathe, adorn themselves, shake hands with each other, and cook grains. [15]
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