Shia Islamic Calendar

This year, Ramadan is expected to begin on Friday, Feb. 28, or Saturday, March 1, 2025 and end on Solar, 30 Mar 2025 or Mon, 31 Mar 2025, relying on the sighting of the moon. The modern Hijri calendar is based on and uses the identical month names as the pre-Islamic calendar utilized by the Ancient Arabs. In Accordance to some sources, it was a lunisolar calendar the place the length of the months followed the Moon phases and a leap month (Nasī’) was often inserted to re-align the time reckoning with the photo voltaic year. Following the Muslim conquest of Makkah, the leap month was abolished to create a purely lunar calendar. The Urdu date at present corresponds to 11 Jumada Al-Akhirah 1447 Hijri within the Islamic calendar. This date is widely adopted by Muslims in both Pakistan and India for spiritual and cultural activities.

التقويم الهجري Though it is not a month of particular rituals or festivals, it acts as a reminder to the believers that they want to stick to worship, observe the Sunnah, and do righteous acts.

This event is referred to as Hegira or Hijrah, accounting for the name Hijri calendar. The months of Rajab, Dhū al-Qa‘dah, Dhu al-Ḥijjah, and Muḥarram are thought-about sacred. Each of these months has a which means and significance, which could be seen beneath. I love using the Islamic Calendar web page to maintain up with Hijri dates and upcoming Islamic occasions.

Ramadan officially begins when the month of Shaban, the eighth month of the Islamic (Hijri) calendar, ends. This 12 months, the holy month of Ramadan began on Friday 28 February for many Muslims. If the Crescent Moon is visible shortly after sundown on the night of day 29, the next day is the primary day of the new month. If no sighting is made, a 30th day is added to the present month, which is then followed by the primary day of the following month. A new month can also begin on different days in several international locations. An Islamic yr constantly falls about eleven days wanting the photo voltaic 12 months.

Eid al-Fitr officially begins firstly of the Islamic month of Shawwal, the tenth month of the Islamic (Hijri) calendar. This yr, Ramadan is predicted to end on the night of both  Solar, 30 Mar 2025 or Mon, 31 Mar 2025, depending on the sighting of the moon. To make Islamic time reckoning extra predictable and universal, Muslim scholars developed the Tabular Islamic calendar within the 8th century CE. This system uses arithmetical rules to determine the size of each month and inserts leap days regularly. The Islamic calendar year is not designed to match up with the length of a solar year, so it doesn't characteristic a correction mechanism like leap days in the Gregorian calendar to make up for the deviation. For every year that passes, Islamic dates fall on earlier dates in the Gregorian calendar.