God Arises
Review
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time of this writing has reached upto 1354, i.e.,
according to the solar scale, there is an addition of
41 years in 1313 years. The Jewish church of the
oriental countries have done away with this type of
absurdity, and have adopted the practice of
Intercalation, thus bringing its lunar calendar in line
with the solar year. Because of this disparity, the
entire West Asia has to suffer from this most
antiquated practice of using the lunar calendar.
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I shall not at this point go into the intricacies of the
solar and lunar calendars. I would merely point out
that the charge of ‘extremely absurd ignorance’
levelled against the Prophet of Islam is based upon
a misunderstanding of the Qur’an, and is, therefore,
without foundation. It is not ‘intercalation’ which is
prohibited by the Quran, but the practice of
nasa’
(9:37).
Nasa’
in Arabic, means delay, i.e. to postpone,
or place in a different order. For example, if an
animal is drinking at a fountain and you take it
away and put your own animal on its place so that
it may drink first, this would amount to an
unwarrantable seizure of a privilege. In Arabic, this
act of placing animals in different order or replacing
animals would be termed:
