Quote from: Murad on July 28, 2018, 10:42:38 AMWhat is "النسيء"? I don't follow hadith anymore, but the only answer I could find was in the hadith though I'm not convinced. Apparently pagan Arabs used to add a month called "النسيء" but then they stopped when they converted to Islam.
According to 9:37, النسيء was the adjustment which the polytheists made in
number - عِدَّةَ
although
GOD decided it on the day He had created the heavens and the earth (9:36).
They claimed that their intention was adjustment; that is, CHANGE for the better
but it was only THEIR whimsical claim and it certainly was against
God's decision,
so it increased their disbelief.
Take the number of the full moons
from the summer soltice of year 630 to the summer soltice of 631
(
http://astropixels.com/ephemeris/phasescat/phases0601.html):
01: Jun 30, 630
02: July 29, 630
03: Aug 28, 630
04: Sep 27, 630
05: Oct 27, 630
06: Nov 25, 630,
07: Dec 25, 630
08: Jan 23,
63109: Feb 22, 630
10: Mar 23, 630
11: Apr 21, 631
12: May 21, 631
13:
Jun 19, 631
01: July 19, 631
02: Aug 17, 631
...
The number of the full moons was 13
but the polytheists changed* it to 12
by postponing ON PAPER the
13th full moon.
This caused the following full moons to come 11 days earlier,
thus made the moons ON PAPER drift from season to season without a sense of time
although God had decided them to come 19 days later, then 11 days earlier, then...
and thus they would each appear in only 1 (one) season and have a sense of time.
As a result the 12-moon lunar year has no sense of time;
it can not answer questions ABOUT TIME as follows:
In
which season of the lunar year was Prophet Muhammad born?
In which season is hunting game forbidden mentioned in 5:94-95?
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*Polytheists' adjustment:
01: Jun 30, 630
02: July 29, 630
03: Aug 28, 630
04: Sep 27, 630
05: Oct 27, 630
06: Nov 25, 630,
07: Dec 25, 630
08: Jan 23,
63109: Feb 22, 630
10: Mar 23, 630
11: Apr 21, 631
12: May 21, 631
01:
Jun 19, 631
02: July 19, 631
03: Aug 17, 631
...