for muslim people here...?

Question

in our history class, we discussed that the muslims have their own calendar and it's the one that they are following... im just curious, how are you going to celebrate your birthdays? is it still the same like the catholics are doing? and how about, for example, it's january in our calendar here, what month would it be in your own calendar??

Answer 1

Some facts:

"The fact is that today's Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today's Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, Muslim Sherkas from Russia, Muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door. The civil and tribal wars between Yemenites (from Yemen) and Kessites (from Banu Kais of Saudi Arabia) ... are well known among Palestinians.

"My grandfather, who was a dignitary in Bethlehem, almost lost his life by Abdul Qader Al-Husseni (the leader of the Palestinian revolution) after being accused of selling land to Jews. He used to tell us that his village Beit Sahur (The Shepherds Fields) in Bethlehem County was empty before his father settled in the area with six other families. The town has now grown to 30,000 inhabitants."

- Walid, a Palestinian Arab defector, talking about the recent immigration of Arabs to Palestine. quoted from "Answering Islam"

The terrorists are the Arab Muslims who blow themselves up in Israeli restaurants and who fire rockets at Israeli civilians.

The ones who fight back against the terrorists are the protectors of freedom and democracy. They act in self-defense. And occasionally cause collateral damage. But they are not aiming to kill Arab civilians. The distinction is critical.

Since the rebirth of Israel, hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab lands have swarmed into the new state. In 1948 more than 850,000 Jews lived in the Arab world. Today there are fewer than 29,000, a shadow of the former ancient community. Most of those Jewish refugees fled to Israel. Where did they come from with such urgency -- and why?

Contrary to the myth that Jews lived in harmony with the Arabs before the Zionist state, innumerable authoritative works document decisively the subjugation, oppression, and spasmodic anti-Jewish eruptions of violence that darkened the existence of the Jews in Muslim Arab countries.


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Answer 2

Salam :) I'm a Muslim teenager living in Canada. I wear hijab alhamdullilah and it's for the most part accepted here since i live in a big city with a sizeable Muslim population. I do get the few ignorant comments and idiots at school though who ask stuff like "yo got a bomb under there hahaha". But the hardest part is being different from your friends. Being a Muslim, parties, alcohol dating boys wearing revealing clothing etc is haram, and while I don't want to do that anyway, it can be a little awkward to have to explain why I don't do it to people who consider it just a part of being a teenager and its ordinary to them. Muslims living in Muslim countries definitely have it easier when it comes to fitting in. And with food it can be a little tricky but I always try to read the label if I'm not sure of the ingredients. But I wouldn't wanna be any other religion no matter how difficult it gets and how different I feel from everyone else, I'm glad to be Muslim :)

Answer 3

As you already know, our calendar has different number of months and days than the current calendar. Therefore, the month that coincides with January will change every few years or so. For example, the month of Dhul-Hijjah took up to 20th of january, and from then on is the month of Muharram. But that will go back and back and back every year, know what I mean?
For those who choose to celebrate birthdays I guess it's just by the normal, current calendar :P

Answer 4

Muslims follow a Lunar calendar so our months do not fall on the same time as the gregorian months every year. This is why the month of Ramadhan and the Hajj Pilgrimage moves throughtout the gregorian year.

Muslims are not allowed to celebrate their birthdays ....... this is considered an innovation in the Islamic view. Muslims only have two festivals a year: Eid ul Fitr (marking the end of the the month of Ramadhan, the month of fasting) and Eid ul Adha (marking the end of Hajj, the anuual pilgrimage to Mecca)

The Ruling Concerning Celebrating Birthdays.
Question:

What is the ruling concerning celebrating birthdays?
Answer:

Celebrating birthdays has no source whatsoever in the pure shariah. In fact, it is an innovation, since the Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu ‘alaihi-wasallam) said,
“Whoever introduces anything into this matter of ours that does not belong to it shall have it rejected.”

This was recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim. In a version recorded by Muslim and by al-Bukhari in definitive muallaq form.

"Whoever performs a deed which is not in accord with our affairs, that deed is rejected.”

It is well-known that the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi-wasallam) did not celebrate his birthday at all during his lifetime nor did he ever order it to be celebrated. Nor did he teach such to his Companions. Therefore, the rightly-guided caliphs and all of his Companions did not celebrate it. They are the most knowledgeable of the people concerning his sunnah and they are the most beloved to the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi-wasallam). They were also the most keen upon following whatever the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi-wasallam) brought. Therefore, if one is supposed to celebrate the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi-wasallam) birthday, this would have been made evident at their time. Similarly, not one of the scholars of the best of generations celebrated his birthday nor did they order it to be done.

Therefore, it is known from the above that such a celebration is not from the Law that Allah sent Muhammed (sallallaahu ‘alaihi-wasallam) with. We ask Allah and all Muslims to witness that if the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi-wasallam) had done so or ordered such to be done, or even if the Companions had done so, we would rush to do it and call others to do it. This is because, and all praises are due to Allah, we are the most keen in following his sunnah and respecting his commands and prohibitions. We ask Allah, for ourselves and for all our brethren Muslims, steadfastness upon the truth, avoiding everything that differs from Allah’s pure shariah. Verily, He is Generous and Noble.


Shaykh `Abdul-`Azeez Bin Baz
Islamic Fatawa Regarding Women - Darussalam Pg.33-34

Answer 5

We call January "Fanuary" and base our calandar off of the moon, making it a lot cooler than your dumb calander because we can look up at the sky and know how far into the month we are. Also ladies bleed out their hoohoos based on the moon so its pretty much like a kitchen timer for life.

We still use the gregorian calander for birthdays and stuff it took over the world. I knew some people that celebrated their lunar birthdays and it would just fall on a different day every year.

Answer 6

Most Muslims do not celebrate birth days. Those who live in non-Muslim countries celebrate children's birth days for few years until they are old enough to understand. Because it is hard to make children understand why their birth day is not celebrated when all other schools mates have their birthdays.

Prophe Mohammad never celebrated his birth day. It is not very important to us. Every year we are closer to grave. Being sole is sent to this world for trials and tribulation to test us how we will behave. Whether we will continue worshipping God or will abondon under difficulties of life is the test.

In most countries we follow your calender. Because real Islmaic country doesn't exists any where any where except few countries like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran and Malaysia.

We follow lunar calender only to know when to strt fasting, and for religious holidays. For all other purposes we follow your calender because when western countries colonised Muslim lands, they changed their calanders.

Answer 7

Muslims have the best calender in this world and our calender has 12 month and 365 days except one year
every 4 year we have366days this information is right if you want to know more thing about our realign you should read books because a lot of thing in your calender is wrong
pleas! read more

Answer 8

we have a lunar calendar.

easiest way to explain: a start of a new month is when a new moon is born. When there's a full moon, then that is the mid of the month. at the end of the month, the moon is gone. another new moon? another new month........ keeps going. each month is a cycle of the moon....

i hope that made it clear

Answer 9

we follow lunar calender ,we dont celebrate birthday ,we celebrate to eids ,january may be any of months in our calender
i.e
january this year may correspond ramadan this year but not correspond it after 3-4 years and so on,it depend on lunar calender not sun

Answer 10

some of us dont celebrate our birthdays.