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  2. Islamic calendar - Wikipedia

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    Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE). The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar, also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.

  3. Muharram - Wikipedia

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    Tenth of Muharram is known as Ashura, an important day of commemoration in Islam. For Sunni Muslims , Ashura marks the parting of the Red Sea by Moses and the salvation of the Israelites . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Also on this day, Noah disembarked from the Ark , [ 3 ] God forgave Adam , and Joseph was released from prison, among various auspicious events ...

  4. Ramadan - Wikipedia

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    Zakat, often translated as "the poor-rate", is the fixed percentage of income a believer is required to give to the poor; the practice is obligatory as one of the pillars of Islam. Muslims believe that good deeds are rewarded more handsomely during Ramadan than at any other time of the year; consequently, many Muslims donate a larger portion ...

  5. Rajab - Wikipedia

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    The word "Rajab" came from rajūb (رجوب), the sense of veneration or glorification, and Rajab was also formerly called Mudhar because the tribe of Mudhar did not change it but rather expected its time to be different than the rest of the Arabs, who changed and altered the months according to the state of war.

  6. Nahdlatul Ulama - Wikipedia

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    Nahdlatul Ulama (Indonesian pronunciation: [nahˈdatʊl ʊˈlama], lit. ' Revival of the Ulama ', NU) is an Islamic organization in Indonesia.Its membership numbered over 40 million in 2023, [2] making it the largest Islamic organization in the world. [3]

  7. Sha'ban - Wikipedia

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    Shaʽban (Arabic: شَعْبَان, Šaʿbān) is the eighth month of the Islamic calendar.It is called the month of "separation", as the word means "to disperse" or "to separate" because the pagan Arabs used to disperse in search of water.

  8. Shawwal - Wikipedia

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    Shawwal (Arabic: شَوَّال, romanized: Shawwāl) is the tenth month of the Islamic calendar.It comes after Ramadan and before Dhu al-Qa'da.. Shawwāl stems from the Arabic verb shāla (شَالَ), which means to 'lift or carry', [1] generally to take or move things from one place to another.

  9. Eid al-Fitr - Wikipedia

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    Eid al-Fitr (/ ˌ iː d əl ˈ f ɪ t ər,-t r ə / EED əl FIT-ər, -⁠rə; Arabic: عيد الفطر, romanized: ʿĪd al-Fiṭr, IPA: [ʕiːd al ˈfɪtˤr]) is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha).