5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

couplet above denote the following months:
Hilmi = 8 = Muharram
Be = 2 = Safar
Drifted = 4 = Rabî’ul-awwal
Hopeless = 5 = Rabî’ul-âhır
Zeal = 7 = Jamâzil-awwal
Earth = 1 = Jamâzil-âhır
Jibing = 3 = Rajab
Damsel = 4 = Sha’bân
Was = 6 = Ramadân-ul-mubârak
Zealous = 7 = Shawwâl
Beauty = 2 = Dhu’l-qa’da
Joy = 3 = Dhu’l-hijja
As an example, let us find out the twenty-ninth day of the month
of Dhu’l-qa’da 1362:
Let us multiply the number 1361 by 4.367; the answer is 5943.
Now let us add two to this, -for the number assigned to Dhu’l-qa’da
is tw–-; the answer is 5945. If we divide this by seven the remainder
is two. So, the first day of Dhu’l-qa’da is the second day beginning
with Friday: It is Saturday. And the twenty-ninth day is again,
naturally, Saturday. This method, discovered by Hüseyn Hilmi Işık [1]
‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ aleyh’, the compiler and the publisher of the
book Endless Bliss is very precise and accurate.
While the moon joins the daily east-west motions of the sun and
the stars, it moves in a west-east direction around the earth. This
motion is faster than the sun’s motion from west to east. The moon
completes one rotation in 27 days plus 8 hours. Therefore, it
completes its daily tour fifty minutes plus 30 seconds after the stars.
The sun, on the other hand, completes its tour four minutes after
(the stars). Consequently, the moon reaches the meridian later than
the sun did the previous day and sets 45 minutes after the sun the
first night. There is an angle of approximately five degrees between
the plane of the lunar orbit and the ecliptic plane. Once each
revolution, the sun, the earth and the moon become aligned with
one another, the sun and moon being in the same direction from
the earth. This state of collinearity is called Ijtimâ’i neyyireyn =
Conjunction. In this state the face of the moon in our direction
[1] Please see the twelfth chapter of The Proof of Prophethood.
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