Inaccurate Decision of ISNA’s Fiqh Council Creates Controversy

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Re: Inaccurate Decision of ISNA’s Fiqh Council Creates Controversy

The Arabs in the pre-Islamic period, during the prophetic epoch, and thereafter made both lunar and solar calendars. The Arabs were using a sometimes calculated and intercalated lunar calendar in the pre-Islamic period, until its abolition by the Prophet, peace and blessings of God be upon him, who replaced it with a calendar based on actual sighting. Hence, I argue that, far from being an advancement, moving to a calculated lunar calendar is a reversion to pre-Islamic (jahili) custom. Similarly, I will show how the Jews also used a lunar calendar based on actual sighting until political developments forced its abandonment.

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Perhaps I misworded it, I meant to say the ‘method’ of developing the calendar.