New year for Muslims begins on the first day of Muharram of the Hijra. It is not a New year in the traditional sense. For Muslims, the day marks the lunar year, and Muharram is the first month of it. Hijra in Arabic means "resettlement". I.e., the Muslims began their chronology from the time of his arrival from Mecca, where they 13 have letspowwow Islam in very difficult conditions, to Medina, where he began a new era in the history of Islam, called the "Medina period"

A devout Muslim all 30 days needs to be twice as courteous, kind, pious not to do evil, to cheat, to humiliate and insult and the like. Because evil in Muharram will come back with double force, the same applies to good deeds. It is also customary on this day, and on all subsequent days of Muharram, to carry out a special post, which is called Al-sawm.