Sayyed Fadlullah: Thursday is the first day of the
month of Muharram
The Religious Authority, Sayyed Muhammad Hussein announced that
next Thursday is the first day of the month of Muharram and the
beginning of the new Hegira year….
His Eminence issued the following statement:
It has been jurisprudentially proven to us that Thursday January
10, 2008 is the first day of the month of Muharram and that Wednesday
January 9, 2008 is the last day of the month of Zul Hijja. Our Fatwa
is based on the birth of the crescent and the ability of seeing it.
May Allah make this new Hegira year, a year of blessing, good,
victory, power, and openness of the Islamic unity among all Muslims.
Hence, one of the greatest ways of reform and preserving the Muslim
dignity is preventing sectarian fighting, refusing strife among
Muslims, turning the occasions of Hegira and Ashoura into occasions of
solidifying the unity of Muslims, confronting the international
arrogance that seeks to occupy and confiscate Islam in its entirety
and observing the line of the subjective and rational dialogue among
Muslims and Christians, on the basis of loving one another and
furthering the spiritual and moral values of all of us.