Editorial policy

The Hijri Calendar blog explains how the Islamic calendar works: how months begin, what each month marks, how dates are converted and how prayer times are calculated. Tahir Nasuru is the named author and accountable editorial owner.

Who writes the articles

Tahir Nasuru is a born Muslim and a software engineer with eight years of experience working in technology. His work and study span system administration, cloud architecture, quality assurance, scripting and automation, software engineering in many languages, and the mainstream databases.

We use AI assistance for research, drafting, editing and technical checks. This is not a claim that a religious scholar reviewed each article. Articles separate sourced facts, worked examples and optional planning suggestions.

Sources and religious questions

Material factual claims link to sources readers can inspect. Astronomical statements favor observatories, universities and official calendar publishers. Quran and hadith references identify their source, and an English rendering is a translation of meaning. Where Muslims follow different methods, such as moon sighting versus calculation, articles describe the positions without settling them. Ask a qualified teacher about your own circumstances.

Calculated dates

Dates on this site, including the examples in articles, use the calculated Umm al-Qura calendar unless an article says otherwise. A calculated date is a planning estimate. The start of Ramadan, the Eids and other observances in your community may follow a local announcement that differs by a day.

Dates and updates

Each article shows its publication date and, after a substantive revision, its updated date. Checking an unchanged article does not change its updated date.

Reviews and corrections

Before publication we check source support, clarity, topic overlap, internal links, metadata, structured data, images and mobile layout. Automated checks complement editorial judgment; neither guarantees search rankings or religious correctness.

Independence

UMRA Tech LLC publishes this blog and the Hijri Calendar site. We do not sell editorial placement or accept payment for an article's recommendation. Sponsors shown elsewhere on the site do not review or approve articles.

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