Surah At-Tawba (9) — Ayah 37
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
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37. 2. That is, by violating the sanctity of one month and declaring another month as sacred in its place, their purpose was that Allah Almighty has designated four months as sacred, so the count of sacred months should remain complete. In other words, in maintaining the count, they were in agreement with Allah, but they had no concern for Allah’s prohibition of fighting, quarreling, and looting. Rather, they made these substitutions only for their own oppressive actions.
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Why the Method of Leap Was Adopted and Losing One Hajj in 36 Years Through Leap:
Another method of adjusting the months had become prevalent among the polytheists of Arabia. That was, in every lunar year, they would count 10 extra days to make it correspond to the solar year. This was called Kabisa, Lawnd, or Leap, and another method of this Kabisa was that after every three lunar years, one extra month would be counted so that the lunar year would also remain in accordance with the solar year. The reason for this was that at the time of Hajj, the caretakers of the House of Allah and the custodians of other places of worship would receive offerings, which were usually in the form of grain, and the ripening of grain is related to the sun or the solar year. If they had remained on the lunar calendar, they would not have received their offerings on time. Merely for this worldly benefit, they adopted this method of Kabisa by imitating other nations. In this way, among other evils, a major evil was that in a period of 36 lunar years, there would be only 35 Hajj, and one Hajj would be lost. It is a coincidence that when the Prophet ﷺ performed Hajj in the 10th year (Hijri), the days of Hajj were according to the original lunar dates and lunar calendar. Thus, on this occasion, in his Farewell Sermon, the Prophet ﷺ declared this unlawful and reprehensible method of Kabisa null and void, and established the Shariah rulings on the lunar calendar.
As is made clear by the following hadith: It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Bakrah ؓ that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said (in the Farewell Sermon): "Behold! Time has turned to its original form as it was the day Allah created the heavens and the earth. The year is twelve months, of which four are sacred. Three are consecutive: Dhu al-Qa'dah, Dhu al-Hijjah, and Muharram, and the fourth is Rajab, which comes between Jumada al-Akhirah and Sha'ban." [بخاري۔ كتاب التفسير۔ نيز كتاب المغازي۔ باب حجة الوداع]
