10-01-2003, 12:40 PM
Hi Scott,
As for your first question about Fihirst, I haven't got a clue......maybe someone Arab can help with that...????
As for you second question about C.E. it stands for "Christian Era" like instead of Muslims saying 2003 A.D. we say 2003 C.E. because we know that A.D. stands for "Year of the Lord" who in christian terms is Jesus and that is against Islam's teachings so we do not use A.D./B.C. when talking about dates.
Muslims start their Islamic calendar from the date that the Prophet Muhammed made his hijra (emigration) to Medina and so you will find that in Islamic terms our date would be 1424 A.H. (after hijra) but being that we deal with the rest of the world too who do not use an Islamic calendar we recognize the date as also being 2003 C.E.
I hope that is clear.......???