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A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the lunar phase. A common purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar or Hijri Qamari calendar. A feature of the Islamic calendar is that a year is always 12 months, so the months are not linked with the seasons and drift each solar year by 11 to 12 days. It comes back to the position it had in relation to the solar year approximately every 33 Islamic years. It is used mainly for religious purposes, and in Saudi Arabia it is also used for commercial purposes. Because there are about twelve lunations (synodic months) in a solar year, this period (354.37 days) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year. The Hebrew calendar also uses a fixed ratio (12+7/19) so it will eventually drift, such that Passover would be in autumn.
Most lunar calendars are in fact lunisolar calendars. That is, months reflect the lunar cycle, but then intercalary months (e.g. "second Adar" in the Hebrew calendar) are added to bring the calendar year into synchronisation with the solar year. Some examples are the Chinese and Hindu calendars, and most calendar systems used in antiquity.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik (Urdu: ذاکر عبدالکریم نائیک; born 18 October 1965) is an Indian public speaker on the subject of Islam and comparative religion. He is the founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), a non-profit organisation that owns the Peace TV channel based in Dubai, UAE. He is sometimes referred to as a televangelist. Before becoming a public speaker, he trained as a doctor. He has written two booklets on Islam and comparative religion. He is regarded as an exponent of the Salafi ideology; he places a strong emphasis on individual scholarship and the rejection of "blind Taqlid", which has led him to repudiate the relevance of sectarian or Madh'hab designations, all the while reaffirming their importance.
Zakir Abdul Karim Naik was born on 18 October 1965 in Mumbai, India. He attended St. Peter's High School in Mumbai. Later he enrolled at Kishinchand Chellaram College, before studying medicine at Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital and later the University of Mumbai, where he obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS). His wife, Farhat Naik, works for the women's section of the IRF.
When the last car’s smoke clears
And the city appears in its desolate way of living
And when the last bird flies from
Our company and the crumbs now lay lonesome
It’s time to go home
There’s always a quiet soul lurking
In the noise of empty streets
Under beauty there’s meaning, Silvia
You could have spared a couple more words
They resonate, they vibrate, become physical things
And this is home to me
It’s beauty
Two minutes of a song or dwelling hell
Hello, there
Take candy from the wasted poet-bum
When you say you miss my sleeping
Do you mean my active part in the way
You arrange your days and nights?
The water by the bedside, the joyous pills;
Today I heard we’re pretty together
And I believed it
May our ennui dissolve
May our boredom be recalled in lace and sepia
A stage into our splendor
It’s easy
To turn my eyes into loving you again
Take time still