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    Salaam to All,
    Which are the sacred months, and how do you know these months are sacred if not from hadiths.
    How do you know that Ramadhan is the 9th month if not from hadiths.

    A friend of mine asked me this question I couldn't answer, because of my low knowledge on the issue.

    Any help will be appreciated

    Thank you

    You can't change the calendar that the Arabs were following in the time of Mohammad? We also can't change the language of the Arabs just because most of them are sectarian, why wouldn't we question the language as well? And there are more things to question..

    Sometimes we have to accept traditional history. The calendar was already there before the birth of Mohammad? So we would need a history book that we can trust, how else would you know it..

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      You can't change the calendar that the Arabs were following in the time of Mohammad? We also can't change the language of the Arabs just because most of them are sectarian, why wouldn't we question the language as well? And there are more things to question..

      Sometimes we have to accept traditional history. The calendar was already there before the birth of Mohammad? So we would need a history book that we can trust, how else would you know it..

      Yes calendar was there before the time of Muhammad but was it hijiri calendar (which started from the first day of hijrat from Mecca to Medina, allegedly introduced by Umar after Muhammad's death).
      Does that calendar had a day named yaum-ul Jumah or a month named Ramadhan?

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        intrestingly there were lot of calendar systems from time to time

        even in pre-history buildings there is a method of calculating days and years
        finally the 365 days calendar system overtakes every culture and they stick to follow this willingly or unwillingly surprisingly if i m not wrong the day in sungular form repeated 365 times in quran.

        coming back to language ,the international products what we see in markets are always highlight their text with english and arabic although english is international language and thats why main religions translated their scriptures in english i ll start a new thread on the very intresting finding what i experienced few days ago about the language of main religious scriptures

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          brook
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          Salaam to All,
          Which are the sacred months, and how do you know these months are sacred if not from hadiths.
          How do you know that Ramadhan is the 9th month if not from hadiths.

          A friend of mine asked me this question I couldn't answer, because of my low knowledge on the issue.

          Any help will be appreciated

          Thank you

          https//www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=2018&country=74

          In 2018 we will witness 13 ashhur -full moons
          2 in Jan,
          none in Feb,
          2 in March,
          and 1 in each of the remaining 9 calendar months.

          4 of the 13 full moons are sacred
          or rather forbiddden as fighting is forbidden in them (92),
          and as fighting will start again when they are over (95).

          One of the 4 full moons is the time when the Great Pilgrimage was performed (93),
          so DhulHijjah is a forbidden full moon.

          Accordingly, the 4 forbidden full moons are

          1. Shahr Ramadan (scorching, time of fasting)
          2. Shahr DhulHijjah (muslim pilgrimage)
            3.Shahr Rajab (respect for peace)
            4.Sahr DhulKaadah (sitting in peace)

          In 2018
          they are

          28 June
          27 July
          26 August
          25 September.

          Peace,
          Hasan Akcay

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            Noon_waalqalami
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            In 2018
            they are

            28 June
            27 July
            26 August
            25 September.

            peace, that's northern hemisphere and mirrored for southern hemisphere cycle starts in 3 days Jan 2, 2018 hence twice/year.

            2185 shahru ramadan (heat) the one descends in it the Qur'an guidance to the humankind ...

            https//s10.postimg.org/8xscpeou1/ramadan.jpg

            209 and not come to you hadithu/narration Moses 2010 when saw fire of so said to family his stays ye of indeed I perceived I fire of perhaps bring you therein with heat or I find on/over the fire guidance

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              owlwithbow
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              Yes calendar was there before the time of Muhammad but was it hijiri calendar (which started from the first day of hijrat from Mecca to Medina, allegedly introduced by Umar after Muhammad's death).
              Does that calendar had a day named yaum-ul Jumah or a month named Ramadhan?

              That's a good question. I don't know.

              I also had my questions about friday, it seems that they changed it to fit their agenda by calling their followers every friday to indoctrinate them. Because why do i think that they changed that day, because all day names in Arabic are numbers except friday.

              We know by reading the Quran that they changed the calendar.

              But my point is, how can we know what the real calendar is, and what the truth is..
              It would be a really hard quest. And i don't even know if we would find the answer.

              So i ignore the question. To me, i don't mind the calendar at the moment. It's only the month Ramadan which i can't identify on my own.

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                owlwithbow
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                intrestingly there were lot of calendar systems from time to time

                even in pre-history buildings there is a method of calculating days and years
                finally the 365 days calendar system overtakes every culture and they stick to follow this willingly or unwillingly surprisingly if i m not wrong the day in sungular form repeated 365 times in quran.

                coming back to language ,the international products what we see in markets are always highlight their text with english and arabic although english is international language and thats why main religions translated their scriptures in english i ll start a new thread on the very intresting finding what i experienced few days ago about the language of main religious scriptures

                The problem with those translations is that most of them or nearly all of them are made by sects and groups who wish to "correct" other translations and translate the "true meaning". I already gave up, i don't want to rely my whole life on translations. I know i won't get the whole 100% of the message if i don't start learning the language. It's like i am reading what the translator wants me to read.

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                  owlwithbow
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                  https//www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=2018&country=74

                  In 2018 we will witness 13 ashhur -full moons
                  2 in Jan,
                  none in Feb,
                  2 in March,
                  and 1 in each of the remaining 9 calendar months.

                  4 of the 13 full moons are sacred
                  or rather forbiddden as fighting is forbidden in them (92),
                  and as fighting will start again when they are over (95).

                  One of the 4 full moons is the time when the Great Pilgrimage was performed (93),
                  so DhulHijjah is a forbidden full moon.

                  Accordingly, the 4 forbidden full moons are

                  1. Shahr Ramadan (scorching, time of fasting)
                  2. Shahr DhulHijjah (muslim pilgrimage)
                    3.Shahr Rajab (respect for peace)
                    4.Sahr DhulKaadah (sitting in peace)

                  In 2018
                  they are

                  28 June
                  27 July
                  26 August
                  25 September.

                  Peace,
                  Hasan Akcay

                  How do we know when the four sacred months arrive?

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                    brook
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                    Peace owlwithbow.

                    How do we know when the four sacred months arrive?

                    The longest daytime is familiar to us all.

                    When we observe the longest daytime,
                    we know that soon afterwards the scorching ful moon (shahr ramadan) will rise,
                    which is the first forbidden full moon.

                    Please refer to Ayman's article
                    https//www.free-minds.org/Old/articles/science/timing.htm

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                      The longest daytime is familiar to us all.

                      When we observe the longest daytime,
                      we know that soon afterwards the scorching ful moon (shahr ramadan) will rise

                      peace, it depends on which hemisphere north/south therefore it's mirrored see prior post.

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                        Peace owlwithbow.

                        The longest daytime is familiar to us all.

                        When we observe the longest daytime,
                        we know that soon afterwards the scorching ful moon (shahr ramadan) will rise,
                        which is the first forbidden full moon.

                        Please refer to Ayman's article
                        https//www.free-minds.org/Old/articles/science/timing.htm

                        It would be great if you explained it to me.

                        I can understand that we can observe when the longest daytime is. It's in summer somewhere, if i am correct. In winter we have the smallest daytime if i am correct.

                        But where does the Quran say that Ramadan begins when the longest day is at hand?

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                          brook
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                          It would be great if you explained it to me.

                          I can understand that we can observe when the longest daytime is. It's in summer somewhere, if i am correct. In winter we have the smallest daytime if i am correct.

                          But where does the Quran say that Ramadan begins when the longest day is at hand?

                          You must know that ramadan means hot,
                          so shahr ramadan is one of the hot full moons of hot summer.

                          Paragraph from Ayman's article

                          We also know that the whole context of chapter 9... 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 afterwards, 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-haram". Hence, circumstantial evidence from the great reading supports that "al-shahr al-haram"/"shahr ramadhan" is a hot time of the year and confirms the dictionary's meaning.

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                            You must know that ramadan means hot,
                            so shahr ramadan is one of the hot full moons of hot summer.

                            Paragraph from Ayman's article

                            We also know that the whole context of chapter 9... 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 afterwards, 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-haram". Hence, circumstantial evidence from the great reading supports that "al-shahr al-haram"/"shahr ramadhan" is a hot time of the year and confirms the dictionary's meaning.

                            I don't have much knowledge on this subject.

                            But what do you think about the calendar the majority uses now? Ramadan keeps coming in a different period of the time. Sometimes we fast in winter, and sometimes in summer.

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                              brook
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                              I don't have much knowledge on this subject.

                              But what do you think about the calendar the majority uses now? Ramadan keeps coming in a different period of the time. Sometimes we fast in winter, and sometimes in summer.

                              The calendar the majority uses now is based on the 365-day solar year
                              and that is what the word sanah (year) stands for in the Quran.

                              Ramadan keeps coming 11 days EARLIER than the former
                              because it is not real ramadan, it is false ramadan.
                              The real ramadan up in the sky comes 19 days LATER after the 13th full moon.

                              Times of 2018's full moons (https//www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=2018&country=74)

                              ---1-------2------3--------4--------5--------6--------7-------8-------9--------10------11------12-------13
                              2 Jan-31 Jan-2 Mar- 31 Mar-30 Apr-29 May-28 Jun-27 Jul-26 Aug-25 Sep-24 Oct-23 Nov- 22 Dec

                              It is obvious that 2019's first moon will come 19 days LATER than 2018's first moon
                              because 2018's 13th moon will delay it.

                              The false moons of the 12-moon lunar year
                              have been made up
                              by means of postponment ( in 937) ON PAPER of the 13th moon.

                              I say ON PAPER
                              because man has no call and no power to actually postpone it
                              as he cannot reach up to the sky and move it from where it is.

                              The real ramadan is fixed in its time in terms of season;
                              that is, it always comes in the beginning of hot summer.
                              That was probably why it was given the name shahr ramadan - scorching full moon.

                              Peace,
                              Hasan Akcay

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                                The calendar the majority uses now is based on the 365-day solar year
                                and that is what the word sanah (year) stands for in the Quran.

                                Ramadan keeps coming 11 days EARLIER than the former
                                because it is not real ramadan, it is false ramadan.
                                The real ramadan up in the sky comes 19 days LATER after the 13th full moon.

                                Times of 2018's full moons (https//www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=2018&country=74)

                                ---1-------2------3--------4--------5--------6--------7-------8-------9--------10------11------12-------13
                                2 Jan-31 Jan-2 Mar- 31 Mar-30 Apr-29 May-28 Jun-27 Jul-26 Aug-25 Sep-24 Oct-23 Nov- 22 Dec

                                It is obvious that 2019's first moon will come 19 days LATER than 2018's first moon
                                because 2018's 13th moon will delay it.

                                The false moons of the 12-moon lunar year
                                have been made up
                                by means of postponment ( in 937) ON PAPER of the 13th moon.

                                I say ON PAPER
                                because man has no call and no power to actually postpone it
                                as he cannot reach up to the sky and move it from where it is.

                                The real ramadan is fixed in its time in terms of season;
                                that is, it always comes in the beginning of hot summer.
                                That was probably why it was given the name shahr ramadan - scorching full moon.

                                Peace,
                                Hasan Akcay

                                Why 13 full moons? A full year is 12 months?

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                                  Why 13 full moons? A full year is 12 months?

                                  Lunar month (represented by waxing crescent, full moon, waning crescent, etc) is one thing,
                                  calendar month is another;
                                  they are not similar let alone the same.

                                  Lunar months (e,g. full moons) are created by God, they are up in the sky, and each one of them represents 29.5 days
                                  but calendar months are man-made, they are ON PAPER called calendar, and they change in length from 29 to 31 days.

                                  You had better not mix them up.

                                  SANAH (year) according to the Quran is the time that the earth takes to rotate once around the sun;
                                  there are sometimes 12 lunar moths (e,g 12 full moons) in it, sometimes 13, like in this year of 2018.

                                  Lunar months (e,g full moons) do not make the year,
                                  they make the series of full moons ( in 936).

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                                    Lunar month (represented by waxing crescent, full moon, waning crescent, etc) is one thing,
                                    calendar month is another;
                                    they are not similar let alone the same.

                                    Lunar months (e,g. full moons) are created by God, they are up in the sky, and each one of them represents 29.5 days
                                    but calendar months are man-made, they are ON PAPER called calendar, and they change in length from 29 to 31 days.

                                    You had better not mix them up.

                                    SANAH (year) according to the Quran is the time that the earth takes to rotate once around the sun;
                                    there are sometimes 12 lunar moths (e,g 12 full moons) in it, sometimes 13, like in this year of 2018.

                                    Lunar months (e,g full moons) do not make the year,
                                    they make the series of full moons ( in 936).

                                    Well, don't the Arabs and Jews follow a lunar calendar?

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                                      Well, don't the Arabs and Jews follow a lunar calendar?

                                      Jews do not follow the pure lunar year,
                                      they folow a luni-solar year

                                      Since the sum of 12 lunar months is about 11 days shorter than a solar year, a leap month is added every 2 to 3 years, or 7 times in a 19-year cycle. Leap months are meant to keep the calendar in step with the astronomical seasons and make sure that the religious observances occur at the correct time of year, as mentioned in the Torah. (https//www.timeanddate.com/calendar/jewish-calendar.html)

                                      As for the Arabs, they do follow the pure lunar year in our time
                                      but that lunar year does not have a sense of time because it does not have seasons,
                                      so the Arabs cannot answer "According to the lunar year what season was I born?"

                                      The only year system which Allah approves of is the solar year. The Quran provides proofs of this, one of which is 105*.


                                      *From Yunus 5

                                      God is the one who? determined phases for the moon
                                      so that you may know the number of the years (&#1614.

                                      One of the phases of the moon is the full moon.

                                      Here are the times of the 33 hot full moons (the full moons right after the longest daytime) from 2001 to 2033. If you count them you will know the number of the solar years as Allah says in 105, but you will never know the number of the so-called lunar years.

                                      05 July. 2001
                                      24 June 2002 ----- 1 (full moon 13)
                                      13 July. 2003
                                      02 July. 2004
                                      22 June 2005 ----- 2
                                      11 July. 2006
                                      30 June 2007 ----- 3
                                      17 July. 2008
                                      07 June 2009 ----- 4
                                      26 July. 2010
                                      15 July. 2011
                                      03 July. 2012
                                      23 June 2013 ----- 5
                                      12 July. 2014
                                      02 July. 2015 ----- 6
                                      19 July. 2016
                                      09 July. 2017
                                      28 June 2018 ----- 7
                                      16 July. 2019

                                      05 July. 2020
                                      24 June 2021 ----- 8
                                      13 July. 2022
                                      02 July. 2023
                                      22 June 2024 ----- 9
                                      11 July. 2025
                                      30 June 2026 ---- 10
                                      17 July. 2027
                                      07 July. 2029
                                      26 June 2030 ---- 11
                                      15 July. 2031
                                      03 July. 2032
                                      23 June 2033 ---- 12

                                      33 hot full moons = 33 solar years
                                      ??????????? = 34 lunar years

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                                        Jews do not follow the pure lunar year,
                                        they folow a luni-solar year

                                        Since the sum of 12 lunar months is about 11 days shorter than a solar year, a leap month is added every 2 to 3 years, or 7 times in a 19-year cycle. Leap months are meant to keep the calendar in step with the astronomical seasons and make sure that the religious observances occur at the correct time of year, as mentioned in the Torah. (https//www.timeanddate.com/calendar/jewish-calendar.html)

                                        As for the Arabs, they do follow the pure lunar year in our time
                                        but that lunar year does not have a sense of time because it does not have seasons,
                                        so the Arabs cannot answer "According to the lunar year what season was I born?"

                                        The only year system which Allah approves of is the solar year. The Quran provides proofs of this, one of which is 105*.


                                        *From Yunus 5

                                        God is the one who? determined phases for the moon
                                        so that you may know the number of the years (&#1614.

                                        One of the phases of the moon is the full moon.

                                        Here are the times of the 33 hot full moons (the full moons right after the longest daytime) from 2001 to 2033. If you count them you will know the number of the solar years as Allah says in 105, but you will never know the number of the so-called lunar years.

                                        05 July. 2001
                                        24 June 2002 ----- 1 (full moon 13)
                                        13 July. 2003
                                        02 July. 2004
                                        22 June 2005 ----- 2
                                        11 July. 2006
                                        30 June 2007 ----- 3
                                        17 July. 2008
                                        07 June 2009 ----- 4
                                        26 July. 2010
                                        15 July. 2011
                                        03 July. 2012
                                        23 June 2013 ----- 5
                                        12 July. 2014
                                        02 July. 2015 ----- 6
                                        19 July. 2016
                                        09 July. 2017
                                        28 June 2018 ----- 7
                                        16 July. 2019

                                        05 July. 2020
                                        24 June 2021 ----- 8
                                        13 July. 2022
                                        02 July. 2023
                                        22 June 2024 ----- 9
                                        11 July. 2025
                                        30 June 2026 ---- 10
                                        17 July. 2027
                                        07 July. 2029
                                        26 June 2030 ---- 11
                                        15 July. 2031
                                        03 July. 2032
                                        23 June 2033 ---- 12

                                        33 hot full moons = 33 solar years
                                        ??????????? = 34 lunar years

                                        God is the one who? determined phases for the moon
                                        so that you may know the number of the years (&#1614.

                                        How is that verse talking about a solar calendar? Isn't that verse talking about a lunar calendar?

                                        I don't understand it.

                                        You used a formula to find out when the full moons will be. Can't that formula be used in a lunar calendar type?

                                        Can you take your time if that what you say is really true. I don't have any knowledge about basic science. So i am willing to be patience, if it makes sense.

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