Names Of Months And The Lunar Calendar
Agreed, just to add a point that even with solar calendars the seasons are different in different parts of the world. For example, cotton harvesting season in Pakistan is during May – August. Whereas, cotton harvesting season in Australia is during November- January.
If someone does reply please be sure to watch the longer video too to get a proper idea of the evidences. All in all this is quite scary as it would mean the Ramadan we are celebrating right now is wrong
Quran uses this months names which implies that their manifestation was pretty clear to Quraish of its time. Therefore, we will use it in the meaning as being used by Quraish and not the other way round.
The actual word is نَسِيْء. It is a term of the Arab jahiliyyah. It was carried out in two ways: firstly, if the intention was to launch an attack on someone, the sacred month would be replaced by a month of allowance and thereby war would be justified; second, in order to achieve trade benefits, the lunar calendar was equated to the solar one by adding a month of kabisah so that hajj would fall in the same season always.This is Ghamidi sahab’s tafsir of 9:37. What is the evidence that نسيء means both of these things. In the article above the research shows that nasi’ was either intercalation or shuffling the months.
Yes so the Arabs would’ve perhaps known that these are the months but over time due to discord and the expulsion of Jews intercalation could’ve halted