Today is
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The Islamic lunar calendar, counted from the Prophet's ﷺ migration from Makkah to Madinah.
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Uses a tabular calculation (Umm al-Qura-style). Your local authority's moon-sighting ruling may differ by a day — see the FAQ below.
Twelve lunar months.
Sacred. The year opens with fasting and repentance.
No pre-Islamic superstition applies — it is a month like any other.
The Prophet ﷺ was born in this month, and returned to his Lord in it.
Open page →The second spring — no specific collective rites.
The first month of drying (pre-Islamic seasonal name).
The second of its pair.
Sacred. The month of the Isrāʾ and Miʿrāj — a preparation for Ramaḍān.
The Prophet ﷺ fasted more in Shaʿbān than any other month outside Ramaḍān.
ʿĪd al-Fiṭr on the first day; six recommended fasts.
Sacred. Preparation for the pilgrimage.
The Ḥajj, ʿArafah, and ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā. The first ten are the best days.
Open page →Why the calendar starts in 622 CE.
The Hijri year counts from the migration (hijra) of the Prophet ﷺ from Makkah to Madinah in what would later be calculated as July 622 CE. The calendar itself was formalised by the caliph ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (raḍiyAllāhu ʿanhu), who chose the Hijra as its anchor — not the Prophet's birth, nor his call to prophethood, nor his death, but the moment a scattered community became a polity with its own time.