Quote from: MesMorial on January 10, 2011, 12:01:27 AM
The Qur'an never says that the sacred months are consecutive. I would judge by the names of the months, thus getting the traditional ones.
9:35 and 9:1-2, 9:5 show clearly that the 4 months were successive
إِنَّمَا ٱلنَّسِىٓءُ زِيَادَةٌ۬ فِى ٱلۡڪُفۡرِۖ يُضَلُّ بِهِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُحِلُّونَهُ ۥ عَامً۬ا وَيُحَرِّمُونَهُ ۥ عَامً۬ا لِّيُوَاطِـُٔواْ عِدَّةَ مَا حَرَّمَ ٱللَّهُ فَيُحِلُّواْ مَا حَرَّمَ ٱللَّهُۚ زُيِّنَ لَهُمۡ سُوٓءُ أَعۡمَـٰلِهِمۡۗ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يَهۡدِى ٱلۡقَوۡمَ ٱلۡڪَـٰفِرِينَPostponement
( Nassi'u ) is only an excess of disbelief whereby those who disbelieve are misled; they allow it one year and forbid it (another) year, that they may make up the number of the months which Allah hath hallowed, so that they allow that which Allah hath forbidden. The evil of their deeds is made fair-seeming unto them. Allah guideth not the disbelieving folk. 9:37
ٱلنَّسِىٓءُ Nassi' is a count they used, add a month, so they have 3 months only sacred while next year they'll have 5 , they use to temper with hte sacred months, and now according to the verses you posted, it is clear that the 4 months hve been tempered with, and that we don't have ramadan and hajj in their real time because the sacred months are no longer successive. it is a problerm though, scholars have to find a solution and get back the month they use to be, some people tell me ramadan is in winter, and the 12 islamic months are stable and the months de not move. anyway, here is names of the months
محرم:Muharram :is
a sacred month, It's the first month, and they named it muharram because fighting in it is haram
صفر Safar : Some say they named it this way because people use to leave their houses TASFAR , for war, And they say the arabs use to travel in it wich is called Safariya , and they say meccah become empty isfirar , from it's people
ربيع الأول وربيع الآخر : Rabii awal and rabii akhir , This name is because of spring, the herbs show , rabii
جمادى الأولى: jumadi oula , it's the month of chill, jumadi means freeze
جمادى الآخرة : jumadi akhira , use to be called jumadi sitta , sounds to me like jumadi 6 , before islam , and than it became jumadi akhir
رجب : Rajab : is
a sacred month rajab, they say it means the stop of fighting
شعبان : Chaabane : tatachaab the tibes, they get the waters etc... after sitting from fighting from rajab.
رمضان : Original name
(ناتق) natiq , and when they changed the name it was a hot season, so they called it ramad , ramad means hot , but some they say it means cold. some say ramadan was in the cold.
شوال: Chuwal : comes from the shecamel, when she get the milk in that season, and it's the heat season for camels, and they also say it's because of the hot season they called it shuwal
ذو القعدة : Dhu Kaada : is
a sacred months, they say it's name kaada, in arabic means sitting, when they stop fighting and go on sitting from fight.
ذو الحجة : Du hijja : is
a sacred month, and it's the month when the ancien arabs go for hajj
