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Al-Hijra, the Muslim New Years Day, begins at sundown

Name: Al-Hijra, the Muslim New Years Day, begins at sundown
Start: 2020-08-19T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-08-19T23:59:59-05:00

August 19, 2020

Al-Hijra, the first day of the month of Muharram, marks the beginning of the Islamic New Year.

Muhammed’s popularity was seen as threatening by the people in power in Mecca, and so Muhammad took his followers on a journey from Mecca to Medina in 622. This journey is called the Hijrah (migration) and the event was seen as so important for Islam that 622 is the year in which the Islamic calendar begins.

Al-Hijra

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Date:: August 19, 2020
Event Category:: other faith traditions

“Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.”

–St. Benedict of Nursia, The Rule of Saint Benedict