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Benin (Africa)
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Prophet's Anniversary - Eid-Milad Nnabi (may be changed to the nearest day)
Wednesday 20 April
2005
(the date changes according to the year)
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*Birthday of the Prophet, Mohammed. For nine days there are Parties with fairs, feasting, and parades. Stories are told about how the mountains danced when Mohammed was born, and sang, "There is no god but Allah." The trees answered, "And Mohammed is his Prophet."
**Then 7,000 angels brought a golden vase filled with heavenly dew, and his mother bathed the new baby in it. Many stories like these are told to Arab children on the Prophet's Birthday, the happiest day in the Moslem year.
***In India, celebrated only in Andaman & Nicobar Island, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Manipur, Pondicherry, Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh.
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