The Islamic Calendar

Mufti Shafīʿ ʿUthmāniin his Tafsīr of Sūrah at-Tawbah mentions, that the verses prove the order of the months and the names by which they are known in Islām, are not a manmade convention. Rather, the day Allāh created the Heavens and the Earth, on that day, the order and the names of the months and […]

To best explain this subject, Allāh has given us Sūrah al-ʿAṣr. Allāh mentions: “I swear by the Time, (1) Man is in a state of loss indeed, (2) Except those who believed and did righteous deeds, and exhorted each other to follow truth, and exhorted each other to observe patience. (3) Relationship between Time and […]

There are 7 days in a week named as follows:  

The Islamic calendar is based on the moon, so it is a lunar calendar. Each month is called a lunar month which is the duration between successive new moons which is the time it takes the moon to complete on orbit around the earth. A lunar month has a mean period of 29.53059 days, or […]