{"id":516,"date":"2009-12-17T22:31:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T05:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2009-12-17T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T05:31:29","slug":"new-islamic-year-1431","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/new-islamic-year-1431\/","title":{"rendered":"New Islamic Year &#8211; 1431"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Cresent - Muharram 1431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/muharam1431wp.jpg\" alt=\"New Crescent - Muharram 1431\" width=\"450\" height=\"316\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Crescent - Muharram 1431<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This evening, in silence, the new Islamic year &#8211; 1431 began.\u00a0 Now I don&#8217;t live in the Muslim world so I have never experienced what takes place upon seeing the new moon that ushers in the new Islamic year, but here in the United States, it goes pretty much un-noticed.\u00a0\u00a0 In fact if it is not the moon for the start of Ramadan or the moon that ends Ramadan, most Muslims never look into the sky or even bother to notice what the Islamic date is.\u00a0 For me the new moon is an awaited monthly friend that I have been faithfully visiting for the last twenty years.\u00a0 For me it is always a joyous event.\u00a0 And although\u00a0the moon\u00a0never seems to be any different, every time it comes around it comes with a different sky as its backdrop.\u00a0 And so it is always something new to look at.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Muharram Crescent and Clouds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/images\/muharram1431-2wp.jpg\" alt=\"Muharram Crescent and Clouds\" width=\"316\" height=\"450\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muharram Crescent and Clouds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So on this eve of the New Year, I wish all the Muslims a Blessed Muharram, and may the year 1431 be a safe, prosperous, and beneficial year.<\/p>\n<p>Peace to you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, in silence, the new Islamic year &#8211; 1431 began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6,7,39],"tags":[41,154,491,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.organiclightphoto.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}