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Eid al-Adha (Arabic: عید الأضحى, romanized: ʿĪd al-ʾAḍḥā, lit. 'Festival of the Sacrifice') honors the willingness and devotion of father and son to partake in the act as demonstration of ultimate obedience to God's command. Before Abraham could sacrifice his son, however, he was stopped and God provided a ram to sacrifice instead.
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.
Both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha follow a period of 10 holy days or nights: the last 10 nights of Ramadan for Eid al-Fitr, and the first 10 days of Dhu al-Hijjah for Eid al-Adha. The Night of Power (Arabic: لیلة القدر, romanized : Laylat al-Qadr), one of the last 10 nights of Ramadan, is the holiest night of the year.
30–31 March – Eid al-Fitr; 9 April - Liberation Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 6–9 June – Eid al-Adha; 26 June – Islamic New Year; 6 July – Ashura; 14 July – Republic Day; 16 August - Arba'in; 4 September – The Prophet's day of birth; 3 October – National day; 10 December – Victory Day; 25 December - Christmas Day
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The date for Eid al-Adha is subject to sighting the new moon of Dhul-Hijjah, the twelfth and final month of the Islamic calendar. ... 2025, and May 26, 2026. All dates are approximate and subject ...
This average is just 0.00000026 (2.6 × 10 −7) of a day shorter than Newcomb's value for the mean tropical year of 365.24219878 days, but differs considerably more from the mean vernal equinox year of 365.242362 days, which means that the new year, intended to fall on the vernal equinox, would drift by half a day over the course of a cycle.
When is Eid al-Adha 2024? While it can vary based on moon sightings in different parts of the world, this year Eid al-Adha is predicted to begin at sunset on June 16, 2024, according to Islamic ...