Happy new Hijri Year 1427!
The Hjri calendar is a lunar calendar based on estimates of the visibility of the lunar crescent. The actual month may start a day earlier or later than predicted. So we just can not print a Hijri calendar in advance.
Things get more messy today when one country has a different calendar than the other. This is sad since the world does not always celebrate the same Eid (Islamic holy day) on the same day.
What would it take to decide on a calendar in advance?
posted by Tarik @ 5:57 PM
1 Comments:
Frankly, I've never been aware of the current Hijri year. Eventhough, we were given the date in christian and Hijra year at primary school.
Apart from the fact that christian civilization is dominant today, I think that people prefer a deterministic calendar than one that might change in function of the weather...
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