AL-QADHDHAFI PRAISES LUNAR CALENDAR IN NOTE TO ISLAMIC LEADERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05-01559R000400400060-5
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: September 16, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AL- A~DHAFI PRAISES LUNAR CALENDAR IN NOTE TO ISLAMIC LEADERS
LD161842 Tripoli ]ANA in English 1737 GMT 16 Sep 85
[Text] Tripoli, Muharram 1, Sep 16, JAMAHIRIYAH NEWS AGENCY--The leader of
the revolution sent a cable to the presidents, kings and leaders of the
Islamic states on the new lunar year. It read as follows:
On the occasion of the end of the lunar year 1394 from the death of the
Prophet (F.D.P.) and the beginning of the year 1395 F.D.P., it gives me
pleasure to send to you and to the Muslim people of your sisterly country the
best of wishes entreating the mighty Allah to grant you and the Muslim people
more prosperity and happiness.
On this occasion, the best thing we do is to endeavour in making this event
eternal. This, without doubt, the most serious event that affected the
history of Islam. The death of God's messenger--Muhammad--which represented
the completion of the revelation of the Koran, eternally terminating the
inspiration on earth and the completion of the last heavenly message.
What event in the history of Islam is possible to ascend in importance to
reach the occultation of the last of God's messengers and prophets from earth?
No doubt, Islam. Islam had never witnessed, during the life of the holy
messenger, decisive events as the immigration to Ethiopia, the immigration to
Medina, Badr Battle, the Mecca liberation and other battles. But, anyone of
these stay limited in effect when compared with the death of Muhammad.
What immortalising is more effective than our adoption of the year the event
took place as a starting point of our calendar in the Islamic world.
We in the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah, realised the importance
of the death of the messenger and what it represents, years ago we adopted it
as the beginning of our calendar.
We call on all Muslims in all the countries to use it to mark historical
events for its eminence and importance which no doubt surpasses the importance
of the birth of the Messiah which was one of the Almighty God's miracles and a
sign of his, which was adopted by his followers as the origin of their
calendar.
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[Article by 'Adil Shafiq: "Nile's Wat~r Syr~ply This Year is 84 Bil:iion Cubic
Meters Compared to 57 Last Year"]
[Text] The inundation of the Nile fo this year is expected to reach 84
billion cubic meters, according tow er levels and scales at the Nile
sources for the current month. Eg t s share is 55.5 billion cubic meters;
Sudan's share is 18.5 billion cub' eters; and IO billion are Lost in the
river at the High .Dam .Lake.
Dr 'Abd-al-Hadi Radi, head of
stated that last year's inund
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Dr 'Abd-al-Hadi Radi a ded hat the preliminary picture of the Nile River
yield during the inund ti will be confirmed at the beginning of September
and October due to the fact that 75 percent of the inundation water arrives
between August and October.
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Also I call you on this occasion to look into his most exalted saying: "They
ask you about immolation, say it is a calender for people and for pilgrimage."
And ponder on his saying--Praise be to him--"the number of months to Allah are
twelve months in a Allah's book when he created the heaven and earth, four of
them are holy, that is the straight religion." Are not these verses suffi-
cient to draw our attention to adopt the lunar calendar.
Your Brother Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi
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8 October 1985
AGRICULTURAL RECLAMATION FUNDS--Benghazi, 12 Dhu al-Hijja, 28 Aug, JAMAHIRIYAH
NEWS AGENCY--An official source said that the total expenditure on the agrarian
reform and land reclamation in Benghazi Municipality reached 2,787,000 Libyan
dinars in the first half of this year. He indicated that the transformation
budget for this sector in the current year reaches 8,322,000 dinars to carry
out a series of productive projects in the agrarian and livestoclc'fields.~
[Text] [Tripoli JAVA in English 1753 GMT 28 Aug 85 LDJ ~~
AL-QADHDHAFI TOURS ECONOMIC FAIR--Tripoli, Muharram 1, 15 Sep, JAMAHIRIYAH
NEWS AGENCY--The leader of the revolution toured yesterday the fair of
economic achievements being held these days in Tripoli. He inspected samples
of industrial and agricutural products of thousands of industrial and agricul-
tural fortresses realised thanks to the great Al Fatih revolution. The
economic fair was held as a follow up to the show of military and morale force
during the festivities held by the Libyan Arab people to commemorate the 16th
anniversary of the Great Tst September revolution. [Text] [Tripoli JANA in
English 0932 GMT 15 Sep 85]
CSO: 4500/213
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