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 Today it's Jumādā al-ʾĀkhirah, 19th 1445 where I live. It's the middle of the year. Our year starts in Muharram. And we don't drink, party or do fireworks then. We have some special months, days and 'Eids. The next big date is the start of Rajab and I know exactly when that is. 
 ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣! 
 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚛!   🥂🥂  
 💥💥 𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓝𝓮𝔀 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻!💥💥 
 𝕳𝖆𝖕𝖕𝖞 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗!🥂🍾 
  In emacs,  we are able to find the  matching date by re-evaluating the following complex commands,

Redo: (calendar nil) 
Redo: (calendar-islamic-print-date)
Redo: (calendar-islamic-goto-date '(7 1 1445)) 
Redo: (calendar-islamic-print-date)