2017 islamic calendar usa9/6/2023 He was honest, wise, and spiritual and never drank wine.Īt the age of forty and while he was in his meditation hideout (a cave on top of a mountain around Mecca), Muhammad received the angel Gabriel جــبـريــل for the first time and since then his Islam message was started as he was ordered to pass Allah’s message to all people and to worship only One God. As Muhammad مــحــمــد was growing up, he acquired a very good reputation among the people of his tribe (Qu’raysh قــريــش or Mecca مــكــة as it is known today) and was known as The Truth-Teller and the Loyal الــصــادق الأمــيــن. His uncle Abo-Talib أبــو طــالــب adopted him. He soon became an orphan as he lost his father and mother. Prophet Muhammad was born some time after the Year of the Elephant. He didn’t succeed as some kind of birds attacked the army and the elephants throwing small stones on them. His army was full of so many huge elephants with armed men on their backs. The Arabs used great events to name the years, like the “Year of the Elephant عــام الــفــيــل” which marks the incident when a mighty king tried with his army to attack and demolish the Ka’bah in what is known today as Mecca.The Arabs adopted the Lunar System to determine the lunar months.If you have read these previous two posts, you will notice that: We also learnt about the Arabic names of months.We have learnt in a previous post about the Arabic names of weekdays.Happy New Hijri Year_Image via altarqeemnews
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