Message #18078

[Heba E. Husseyn]

Subhan'Allah, what amazing display of beauty!

Even after the spread of  Shiia Islam, with the interference of the British and Americans in the 19th century, the Shiia elites of Iran turned into secularists.  In 1976, the dictator and U.S. puppet, Reza Shah, abandoned the Islamic lunar Hejra calendar starting from the immigration of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) from Mecca to Medinah.  He replaced it with the calendar of the Zoroastrian Achaemenid Empire starting from the reign of Cyrus as its first year as the country's official calendar.  Overnight the Muslim Hejra year of 1355 changed to 2535.  Immediately after the Islamic revolution in February 1979, the inaccurate Achaemenid empire calendar was changed to the Islamic solar Hejri calendar.   .................................   

Exactly.  And you know, many idiots in the mainstream media and the bias Google who are full of flattery for pre-Islamic Persia claim Achaemenid calendar to be more accurate than the Islamic Hejri calendar and also the Georgian calendar.  Those buffoons don't know (or pretend not to know) that the goofed up Achaemenid solar calendar went through a lengthy process of revision and correction by the prominent Iranian mathematician, astronomer and poet, Omar Khyyam (1048 to 1131).   He corrected and changed the Achaemenid calendar so vastly that it was a new calendar altogether commonly referred to as the Omar Khayyam calendar.  It turned out to be more accurate than the Christian Julian calendar in Europe, later changed to the Gregorian calendar.    Thundering goon, the Shah, wouldn't admit that and stuck to the phony title "Cyrus the Great calendar."