Account Of The Moon

 

Lunar calendar (L-230)

يَسأَلونَكَ عَنِ الأَهِلَّةِ ۖ قُل هِيَ مَواقيتُ لِلنّاسِ وَالحَجِّ ۗ 189a.

189a.  Yas-‘aluunaka  ‘anil- ‘Ahil-lah.  Qul  hiya  mawaa-qiitu  lin-naasi  wal-Hajj.

189a.  They ask you about the crescents. Say, “They are timetables for people, and for the Hajj.”

‘Ahil-lah – (the new moon), ‘Ahil-lah is plural of Hilaal. About the moon, the questions of the people were nearly like, “first rising of the moon, it’s increasing date-wise, it’s decreasing date-wise, and then until the time of it’s disappearing – why it is so? And what is the reason of these changes?

Mawaaqiitu – (times, seasons), it is plural of miiqaat which means prescribed time or instrument and a measure of the time.

The changes, which come in the moon, those may be commonly seen and felt. Asking about these things by the mankind is a natural thing because he remains restless for getting more and excessive knowledge. Some people asked from the Messenger of God (ﷺ) about the reasons of increase and decrease of the moon: What are the causes of rising and setting of it? The Prophet (ﷺ) responded these questions with the inspiration of God: The advantage of increasing and decreasing of the moon is that fixing the days, dates, months and years for worldly matters become easy and lawful accounts of the people are maintained by it.

The foundation of the worshiping whims and ascribing plurality to God would be minimized by this clear description of Holy Qur’an. Many nations of the world used to adore the moon. The nations like these used to adore the new moon; having belief that it was demi-God. Increasing of the moon was considered as blessed and its decreasing as wretched. So those people did not use to even marry during the last dates of the moon. Holy Qur’an declared the purpose of increasing and decreasing of the moon; that the times and period for working by the human beings could be fixed easily by it. It helps also in worships and lawful accounts besides the worldly matters. The word Hajj (Pilgrimage) has been used particularly here because it was a very important part of the lives of Arabian people.  

Due to following some extra advantages in the Lunar account; Holy Qur’an has preferred it from the Solar account:

• In the solar calendar, many difficulties happen because seasonally it remains in the same condition. Which ordinary change comes due to rising of the sun and its setting, the people cannot guess it.

• Availability of well acquainted person, who keeps the correct solar account, is much difficult in backward and uncivilized territories.

• Everybody (literate and illiterate) can estimate the time and date due to regularly equal changes in the conditions of the moon.

• The weather doesn’t affect on the rising of the moon and its setting. So different months come in different weathers on the entire earth and the Muslims of every country and territory can perform their worships turn by turn in every season.

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