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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Friendship Day Sunday August 7 -2 years, -4 months, -18 days or -871 days | 8 Ashura Monday August 8 -2 years, -4 months, -17 days or -870 days | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 Assumption of Mary Day Monday August 15 -2 years, -4 months, -10 days or -863 days | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 Senior Citizens Day Sunday August 21 -2 years, -4 months, -4 days or -857 days | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | | | | | | | | | | |
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Ashura for the year 2022 is celebrated/ observed on sundown of Sunday, August 7th ending at sundown on Monday, August 8th.
Ashura marks the 10th day of the 1st month of Muharram on the Islamic lunar calendar. The day commemorates for Shia Muslims the death of Husayn ibn Ali who was the grandson of Muhammad in the Battle of Karbala of October 10, 680 CE. For Sunni Muslims the day relates to when Moses and his followers fled Egypt and where saved by God separating the Red Sea.
Days to Ashura 2022
Sunday, August 7th is day number 219 of the 2022 calendar year with -2 years, -4 months, -18 days until Ashura 2022.