Quote from: ayman on June 13, 2012, 11:20:54 PM
How are "announcements" a timing mechanism?? Don't "announcements" themselves need to be timed by something?
All the meanings point to heat, which is not associated with fall. Also, "sayf" means spring not summer. So the "ramadiya" that comes after "sayf" would be in the summer.
Peace,
Ayman
Salam ,
There was a mistake in the English translation of the verse below i saw it before and forget to corrected it :
يسالونك عن
الاهلة قل
هي مواقيت للناس والحج وليس البر بان تاتوا البيوت من ظهورها ولكن البر من اتقى واتوا البيوت من ابوابها واتقوا الله لعلكم تفلحون
2:189 They ask you regarding the Announcement , say: "They are a appointed times for the people and the Pilgrimage." And piety is not that you would enter a home from its back, but piety is whoever is righteous and comes to the homes from their main doors. And be aware of Allah that you may succeed.
The " Al-ahilah / الأهله / Announcements " are surely not a time mechanism but appointed times ,
i already mentioned in some of my previous posts that the guys who announce the appointed times for pilgrimage and other events use a known method at that time to determine the date/ time of these vents. Those mechanism /
singes was known and used by the other communities who have knowledge from the previous books and from the verse it show up that " الأميين Al-Omyeen/the community of Mohamed PBUH who do not have knowledge from the book " wasn't the people responsible for determining and calling for pilgrimage and other events this is why they asked the prophet about it in the above verse , the verse start with : 2:189
They asking you regarding the Announcement , say: "They are a appointed times for the people and the Pilgrimage." And piety is not that you would enter a home from its back, but piety is whoever is righteous and comes to the homes from their main doors. And be aware of Allah that you may succeed.
From the Quran its show up also that determining the time for pilgrimage was known at the time of Abrahim , the command below is to Abrahim to call for pelgrimage :
وَإِذْ بَوَّأْنَا
لِإِبْرَاهِيمَ مَكَانَ الْبَيْتِ أَن لّا تُشْرِكْ بِي شَيْئًا وَطَهِّرْ بَيْتِيَ لِلطَّائِفِينَ وَالْقَائِمِينَ وَالرُّكَّعِ السُّجُودِ
وَأَذِّن فِي النَّاسِ بِالْحَجِّ يَأْتُوكَ رِجَالا وَعَلَى كُلِّ ضَامِرٍ يَأْتِينَ مِن كُلِّ فَجٍّ عَمِيقٍ
22:27 and
proclaim among Mankind
the Pilgrimage, and they shall come unto thee on foot and upon every lean beast, they shall come from every deep ravine