شوال

Shawwal 1450 AH

Eid al-Fitr opens it, and six days of recommended fasting may be kept anywhere in the month after the feast.

Begins on Wednesday 14 February 2029 and runs 30 days, to Thursday 15 March 2029.

Projected from the Umm al-Qura calendar, as ActivePray reckons it. A Hijri month truly begins when the new crescent is seen, so it can open a day either side of this. Like every day of the Hijri year, each day begins at sunset the evening before.

Its holy days

As each branch keeps them, from ActivePray’s calendars.

  1. Wednesday 14 February 2029 · Shia

    Eid al-Fitr

    The Feast of Breaking the Fast — the first of Shawwal. Fasting is forbidden on this day.

  2. Wednesday 14 February 2029 · Sunni

    Eid al-Fitr

    The Feast of Breaking the Fast — the first of Shawwal. Fasting is forbidden on this day.

  3. Thursday 15 February 2029 · Sunni

    Six of Shawwal

    Six recommended fasts kept anywhere in Shawwal after Eid — with Ramadan, as a year of fasting.

The White Days

Three days of recommended fasting each lunar month, the Ayyām al-Bīḍ, when the moon is full. In Shawwal 1450: Monday 26 February 2029, Tuesday 27 February 2029 and Wednesday 28 February 2029.

In ActivePray, the Hijri date stands at the top of every day, with each prayer at its hour and the holy days and fasts of the year, in Sunni and in Twelver Shia practice.

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Shawwal in other years: 1447 AH · 1448 AH · 1449 AH. Every month is on the Hijri months page, every holy day on the calendar and in Islam. Today’s Hijri date.