5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Jemazil-âkhir 7 5 2 7 4 1 7 3
Rajab 1 6 3 1 5 2 7 4
Sha’bân 3 1 5 3 7 4 1 6
Ramadân 4 2 6 4 1 5 3 7
Shawwâl 6 4 1 6 3 7 5 2
Zu’lka’da 7 5 2 7 4 1 6 3
Zu’lhijja 2 7 4 2 6 3 1 5
The Abuzziyâ Calendar of the year 1310 [A.D. 1893] formulates
the steps for finding the first day of an Arabic month as follows: The
number of the hijrî lunar year is divided by eight. The remainder is
found on Ibni Ishâq Ya’qûb Kindî’s chart, above, the first line. A
vertical movement downward from this number and a horizontal line
leftward from the name of the month will intersect on the number
representing the day counted from Friday on.
There are various methods for finding the first day of anArabic
month. The most dependable method is the one systematized by
Uluğ Bey. According to this method, the first step is to find the first
day of the first month, Muharram, of the hijrî year. For finding the
first day of the month of Muharram, the number of the hijrî year
concerned is divided by the fixed number 210. The first figure of the
remainder (the first on the right) is subtracted from the remainder.
The number found is checked on the first chart (The first one of
Uluğ Bey’s charts of lunar month): it will be one of the numbers on
the first column, that is, the column containing numbers with their
first figures discarded. A horizontal move rightward from this
number and a vertical projection from the figure representing the
first figure of the remainder (on the uppermost horizontal line) will
converge on the number indicating the first day of Muharram
counted from Sunday. For example, let us find the first day of
Muharram of the hijrî year 1316: 1316 / 210 = 6. 56 /210 . The
remainder is 56. When its first figure, 6, is subtracted, number 50
will be found. As you move rightward from number fifty on the first
column, you will find number 1 on the column belonging to number
6, (which is on the uppermost horizontal line). Hence, the first day
of the year (the hijrî year 1316) was Sunday. To find the first day of
any Arabic month, first the first day of that year is found. On the
second chart, the number on the intersection of the (horizontal) line
belonging to the month concerned and the column containing the
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