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3 unusual facts about hijra


HIJRA

HIJRA's programs in Livelihoods cover a broad range of activities focused on enhancing self-reliance through non-formal education, income generation and cash for work programming.

Religious rejection of politics

There are some aspects of the early days of the radical Takfir wal-Hijra that hint at this.

Takfir wal-Hijra

In 2005 in Lebanon, a group calling itself Takfir Wal‐Hijra took credit for the killings of Christian civilians in the Dinnieh area of Lebanon.


Hijri year

Seventeen years later, the developers of the Islamic calendar chose that year as the year to start counting from: "the first year of the Hijra era, 1 Annum Hegirae (Anno Hegirae when annum is declined in the ablative/locative case, as it is in "in the ordinal year of the Hijra"; cf. Anno Domini), abbreviated 1 AH. The first day of 1 AH corresponds to July 16, 622, denoted as "1 Muharram 1 AH".

Muhammad ibn Muslim and Ibraheem ibn Muslim

On the 20th of Dhu al-Hijjah in 60 Hijra, when the jailer came to give the children their evening meal, he saw them saying their prayers.

Muhammad's views on Jews

After his migration (hijra) to Medina from his home-town of Mecca, he established an agreement known as the Constitution of Medina between the major Medinan factions, including the Jewish tribes of Banu Qaynuqa, Banu Nadir, and Banu Qurayza that secured equal rights for both Jews and Muslims as long as Jews remained politically supportive.

Muhammadu Attahiru I

Attahiru I and many followers fled the city of Sokoto on what Attahiru I described as a hijra to prepare for the coming of the Mahdi.

Seemab Akbarabadi

Shair continued to be published long after Seemab’s death, managed and edited (since 1935) by his son, Aijaz Siddiqi, and "Wahi-e-manzoom" published by his son Mazhar Siddiqui from Karachi was graced ith a Hijra Award on 27 Ramzan by the President of Pakistan, General Zia-Ul-Haq.

Singahi Bhiraura

In December the next year 994 Hijra (1586 A.D) another attack took place, this time by Pasi bandits looting Dhangiri.

In 993 Hijra (1585 A.D.) The Mogul Sarkar of Khairabad, in the Subah of Oudh received an ulām (message) from the administrator of Luxmipur (Lakhimpur).

Zainab bint Muhammad

# Zainab bint Muhammad, married to her maternal cousin Abu al-Aas ibn al-Rabee before al-Hijra


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