Showing posts with label Qur'an. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Qur'an. Show all posts

2014-01-09

universal calendar #5777 idealized lunation

1.5: summary:
. part of my logging routine involves
copying a template of month folders
that contain files for each annual date:
each file in a month folder
starts with a date and some event's name,
such as: sched/12 dec/25 christmas.txt .
. ever since hearing about the prophesies of
Hebrew year 5777 (2016.fall ... 2017.fall)
I have been interested in Jewish and Islamic events;
so, I was looking for a way to add them
to my year's logging template .
. the jewish calendar is lunisolar,
and the islamic calendar is lunar,
so while their events are on
a particular monthly date,
their months are shifting around
within the calendar that modernity uses,
therefore,
I devised an idealized lunation system,
that assigns their months to particular days,
aligned with the equinoxes of the year 5777 .
. also, there are many usa calendar events
that are shifting their date annually
because they are defined as being on
something like the 1st monday of a month;
so, in order to fix a date for these,
I had to choose a particular year,
and, again, the year I chose was 5777 .
  

2012-12-11

there is no compulsion in religion

12.5: news.relig/islam/qur'an/
there is no compulsion in religion:
Verse (ayah) 256 of Al-Baqara, the Qur'an.
"there is no compulsion in religion.
Verily, the Right Path has become
distinct from the wrong path.
Whoever disbelieves in Tâghût
and believes in God (ar. Allah),
then he has grasped the most trustworthy handhold
that will never break.
And God is All-Hearer, All-Knower.
--
. notice this isn't talking about Islam,
which is a superset of being religious;
. religion is the state of
being aware of the supernatural .
12.11:
. this passage "(no compulsion in religion)
is typically misunderstood as suggesting that
Islam does not require compulsory religion;
rather, it is pointing out that being religious
has nothing to do with arduous self-discipline,
and everything to do with finding a true love .