5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Zoroastrian feast. On the other hand, the starting day of the Hegira
lunar year is the 16th of July (A.D), the first Friday of the month of
Muharram of the same year. The migration of our Prophet
(sallalâhu alaihi wa sallam) took place in 622 (A.D.). The beginning
of the Hegira lunar year is 196 days (0.54 years) after the
completion of the year 621 A.D. The Hegira solar year began 262
days (0.72 years) after the completion of the year 621 A.D. So, the
beginning of the Hegira solar year is 66 days (0.18 years) later than
the Hegira lunar year. If 0.18 years is added to the number of the
Hegira solar year, the number of the Hegira solar year also will start
on the 16th of July. Due to the 10.875 days’ difference in a year, for
every 32.59 years of the Hegira solar calendar, 33.59 years have
elapsed of the Hegira lunar calendar. If the number of lunar years is
multiplied by the quotient of 32.59 ÷ 33.5 = 0.97023 the product will
be the number of solar years. If the number of Hegira solar years is
multiplied by the quotient of 33.59 ÷ 32.59 = 1.0307 the product will
be the number of lunar years.
Let us find out the Hegira solar year which coincides with the
beginning of the lunar year 1404. Since a year begins after the last
day of the previous year, and if the solar year had also started on
the 16th of July, then the number of solar years would simply be
1403 x 0.97023 = 1361.23. But, since a solar year starts 0.18 years
later than the 16th of July, 0.18 years is subtracted and then 1361 is
taken: 1361.05 - 1361 = 0.05. Therefore, the beginning of the
Hegira solar year becomes 0.05 x 12 = 0.6; first month’s 0.6 x 30 =
18th day of the year 1362.
Let us find out the lunar year which coincides with the beginning
of the 1362 Hegira solar year: If the lunar calendar had started on
the 20th of September, too, it would be 1361 x 1.0307 = 1402.78,
and an 0.18 year excess of that number would be 1402.96 and
taking 1402 from it 1402.96 -140 2 = 0.96 and 0.96 x 12 = 11.52;
half of the twelfth month of the year 1403.
Let us find out the starting dates of the Hegira years which
coincides with the beginning of 1984 A.D. The Hegira solar year
which coincides with the beginning of 1984 A.D. is 1984 - 622 =
1362. The difference between the 20th of September and the 1st of
January is 103 days (0.28 years). We have already found that the
lunar year which coincides with the beginning of the solar year 1362
is 1402.96. So, the lunar year would become 1402.96 + 0.2 8=
1403.24. That means 0.24 x 12 = 2.88 or the third month (0.88 x 30
= 26.4) or the twenty-seventh day of the lunar year 1404.
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