9:81 and the Restricted Months
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"Those who have remained are happy with their position of lagging behind the messenger of God, and they disliked striving with their money and lives in the cause of God; and they say "Do not mobilize in the heat." Say "The fire of Hell is much hotter," if they could only understand (981, Free Minds Translation)."
Peace all,
Wouldn't this verse support the idea that the restricted months do not fall during the hottest part of the year? Is the context of these verses the muslims preparing to go to war? If there were some who did not want to fight, why wouldn't they simply say, "We will not fight during the restricted months." Saying they will not mobilize for war because of the heat makes them sound like a bunch of cowardly and lazy slobs. I would think that if they were able to use the excuse of the restricted months, they would do so, right?
Thanks for any help.
Peace,
Joel -
Peace,
nice to see you learning )
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http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ff3d06ca251ad525de8b6d289bbcea97&topic=9188.0However, one can indirectly verify the meaning. Verses such as 2217 indicate that there was big fighting during "al-shahr al-7aram". We also know that the whole context of chapter 9 (or the second half of the very long chapter 8, since the "bism Allah" are the only separators) is about fighting the idolaters who broke their treaty. A sign in verse 981 indicates that the time of a particularly big fight that the hypocrites were fearful from was a hot time of the year. Shortly after 982, 986 talks about a chapter descending at that time and from 2185 we know that "shahr ramadhan" is when the great reading was descended so that provides an additional link between "shahr ramadhan" and "al-shahr al-7aram". Hence, circumstantial evidence from the great reading supports that "al-shahr al-7aram"/"shahr ramadhan" is a hot time of the year and confirms the dictionary's meaning.
regards
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Peace herbman,
Thanks for the link to the other thread. I did a search for the verse from sura 9, but didn't find anything. That helps.
Peace,
Joel