{"id":5704,"date":"2015-08-12T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2015-08-12T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:33:13","slug":"islamic-calendar-religious-occasions-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/islamic-calendar-religious-occasions-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Calendar &#038; Religious Occasions (For Kids)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Islamic-Calendar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5705\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Islamic-Calendar.jpg\" alt=\"Islamic Calendar\" width=\"245\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>The Islamic calendar or Hijri calendar (AH) is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 days.<br \/>\nIt is used to date events in many Muslim countries (concurrently with the Gregorian calendar), and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper days on which to observe the annual fasting, to attend Hajj, and to celebrate other Islamic holidays and occasions.<br \/>\nThe first year was the Islamic year beginning in AD 622 during which the emigration ofprophet Muhammad (PBUH) from Mecca to Medina, known as the Hijra, occurred.<br \/>\nIn this infograph, we list the months of Islamic calendar, highlighting the significant religious occasions of each month in a simple way that is easy for kids to understand.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Islamic-Calendar2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5706\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Islamic-Calendar2.jpg\" alt=\"Islamic Calendar2\" width=\"575\" height=\"2224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Islamic-Calendar2.jpg 575w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Islamic-Calendar2-265x1024.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/islamic-calendar-religious-occasions-for-kids\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic calendar or Hijri calendar (AH) is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 days. It is used to date events in many Muslim countries (concurrently with the Gregorian calendar), and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper days on which to observe the annual fasting, to attend &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}