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All I understood is that altering months of a calendar is forbidden. That is the Ramadan calendar. Which calendar is used for agriculture, the 365 days one? Is the gap of 10 or 11 days because of that leap year day (Feb 29)? [[User:Saggy|Saggy]] ([[User talk:Saggy|talk]]) 06:24, 20 August 2014 (PDT)
All I understood is that altering months of a calendar is forbidden. That is the Ramadan calendar. Which calendar is used for agriculture, the 365 days one? Is the gap of 10 or 11 days because of that leap year day (Feb 29)? [[User:Saggy|Saggy]] ([[User talk:Saggy|talk]]) 06:24, 20 August 2014 (PDT)
:hi PW. Jansen, regarding [http://wikiislam.net/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Axius&diff=109322&oldid=109321 this] I'll reply here for continuity. Is there a Quranic verse for the calender issue? That could be used in the Scientific errors in the Quran article. In any case there could be a separate article on this. There could be information from Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar lunar year] and/or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar Islamic calendar] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar#History History] section).  --[[User:Axius|Axius]] <span style="font-size:88%">([[User_talk:Axius|talk]] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[Special:Contributions/Axius|contribs]])</span> 07:36, 20 August 2014 (PDT)
:hi PW. Jansen, regarding [http://wikiislam.net/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Axius&diff=109322&oldid=109321 this] I'll reply here for continuity. Is there a Quranic verse for the calender issue? That could be used in the Scientific errors in the Quran article. In any case there could be a separate article on this. There could be information from Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar lunar year] and/or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar Islamic calendar] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar#History History] section).  --[[User:Axius|Axius]] <span style="font-size:88%">([[User_talk:Axius|talk]] <nowiki>|</nowiki> [[Special:Contributions/Axius|contribs]])</span> 07:36, 20 August 2014 (PDT)
Thanks, I am not that familiar with the Wiki communication features so something may be rather inefficient. The Koranic verse here is 9:37: Verily the transposing (of a prohibited month) is an addition to Unbelief: the Unbelievers are led to wrong thereby: for they make it lawful one year, and forbidden another year, in order to adjust the number of months forbidden by Allah and make such forbidden ones lawful. The evil of their course seems pleasing to them. But Allah guideth not those who reject Faith. <br>
Traditionally the Arab added a month every so many years to synchronize sun and moon calendar. This a rather coarse way but sun and moon calendar don't get out of synch completely like is the case now. see: http://islam.about.com/cs/calendar/a/hijrah_calendar.htm for the current one. For the older one e.g. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20837003?uid=3737536&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104072781421 (PW. Jansen)
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