WHY DO MUSLIMS FOLLOW THE LUNAR CALENDAR
Question:
Why do Muslims follow the lunar calendar instead of the solar calendar?
Answer:
- As per the Solar calendar, every year the months fall in the same respective seasons of that location. For example, the months of March, April and May in India will always have summer, while July, August, September will always have monsoons i.e. rains in western India. November, December and January will always have winter.
2. In the lunar calendar in different years the months fall in a different season.
The lunar calendar has about 11 days less than the solar calendar. Thus, every year, the month of the lunar calendar occurs 11 days prior to what it had occurred in the previous solar year. Thus, in a span of about 33 lunar years a human being will experience all the different seasons for one particular month of the lunar calendar. This is very important because the yearly activities of a Muslim are based on the lunar calendar. Certain months like Ramadhan and Hajj are very important to the Muslims. During Ramadhan a Muslim has to fast which includes abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset. If the Islamic months were based on the solar calendar where the seasons were fixed, then people living in certain parts of the world would have Ramadhan in summer while in other parts of the world it would be winter. Some Muslims would have to fast for a longer period of time where the days are long while other Muslims would have to fast for shorter period of time where the days are short. If the seasons did not change, then Muslims living in some parts of the world may feel that they are at a disadvantage throughout their lives.
By following the lunar calendar, every Muslim has a taste of fasting in different seasons and for a different time period, in a span of about 33 years of his life.
Such a wise answer of the question. i completely agree
i want answer for some quition firstly
1)i read some writer, she said in islam divorced women if she wants to marry same husband or live with same man she has to marry anathor man and sleep atleast for one day, and then she can live with the previous husband. how is it logical and in that artical even said, a women committed suecide becouse she could not spend a night withe new man in order to marry a previous husband?
If it really was the case of feeling at a disadvantage by living in certain parts of the world then surely all muslims that dont live in mecca are at a disadvantage as to the ammount of reward they get when praying their salah. The middle east doesn’t have a winter! so even with a lunar calender ur not gonna get a winter. A Solar Cal. is the real way of measurin the length of a year (The time it takes for the earth to rotate arround the sun). Its no point telling a short guy he is tall to make him happy cause its not the truth. hence shortening the year by 11 days has no logic sense. The simple truth is this logic needs to be kept away from faith!!!! I am a muslim and I hate it when people make out that religion has logic!. It doesn’t hence we call it faith and not fact. So learn to accept things that make no sense as in why we follow the lunar calender.