Talk:Muharram

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[edit] Doomsday

Doomsday...? Did the editor who added this reference mean Qiyamah? freestylefrappe 15:57, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Poorly worded and somewhat extreme, and unsourced, better without. --Irishpunktom\talk 21:34, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
In my opinion, the expression "Prophet Muhammad(P.B.U.H)," (meaning "Peace Be Upon Him"), which is a typical Muslim expression, is a biased POV in a secular encyclpedia.--213.140.6.119 10:33, 26 November 2006 (UTC) (User talk:Vermondo)

[edit] Significance for Jews

I am not sure what are the grounds for justification of this claim "It is, for example, related by the jews to the time of Moses when he crossed the Red Sea escaping from the Pharaoh. Sunni Muslims often fast on this sacred day"

The jewish calendar is different and predates Hijri calendar. There is no reason to believe that 10th of Muharram (if we go back to Moses time, coincided with the Jewish Festival being referred here. )Even if there was a time during which the date of Ashura clashed with this date, considering that the Hijri calendar moves by 10 days a year, the two days were probably different. This is like saying that since Christmas and Eid coincided in year X, muslim day of Eid is also the day when Christ was born

125.19.41.200 12:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)Qasim

[edit] Haraam/Shia

I think that the words Haraam and Shia, among several others, need to be consistently spelled within the article and other articles. For example, the word "haraam" is spelled as "haram" and "haraam", whereas it should consistently be spelled as one or the other. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.169.13.29 (talk) 06:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC).


[edit] Slashing

I was told that Muslims slash each other with swords in parts of India and Pakistan during this month. The person who bleeds the most is considered the luckiest. Is this true? 165.124.95.43 20:00, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PreIslamic Muharram

Should be mentioned...--Skatewalk 19:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC)