The calendar first.
The sky alongside.

THE 12 LUNAR MONTHS · AN IRANIAN SHI‘A LENS

What each religious month holds.

Name, religious standing, remembered events and forms of practice. Dates below follow Iran’s published calendar for this edition; historical traditions and community programmes can differ. Islamic-wide obligations and Shi‘a commemorations are identified separately.

ALL MONTHS · BOTH CLOCKS · HEBREW SKY CHAMBERS

The month atlas

Persian and Islamic month names are calendar names. Hebrew names below are your Cosmic Clock chambers, not Hebrew civil-calendar month names. Solar rows lead with your month-to-chamber correspondence; the smaller “Measured start” value is the actual Sun position at noon on the first civil day. Every measured sky position uses noon Tehran on the listed start date. The Moon moves through many chambers during each calendar month.

SAME DAY · DIFFERENT HISTORIES

Why these dates? What do the months mean?

The Sun anchors Iran’s seasonal year; the Moon anchors the Islamic religious months. Month names are inherited names, not measurements of how someone feels. Iran’s published lunar dates remain the authority for this edition.

YEAR-BY-YEAR RAMADAN SKY · AH 1400–1500

One lunar month. Many different skies.

Compare 101 Ramadan months, covering approximately 1979–2077 CE. The date rule is stated for each year; most are arithmetic estimates rather than Iranian sighting records. Use the day slider to follow the Moon through that month.

This historical explorer has its own year and day. “Use this day” carries a covered date into the shared calendar, Moon and prayer views; dates outside this edition remain an archive comparison.

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PERSIAN MONTH → 12 HEBREW CHAMBERS → THE INITIALS

All twelve chambers and the sealing overlay.

A crosswalk for your thesis: each solar month’s nominal chamber, its Arabic counterpart, a sourced popular Persian horoscope description, and the actual opening-register match. The Islamic lunar month beside it is the month on the solar month’s first covered day in this edition; it shifts from year to year.

Popular horoscope descriptions are attributed to their publishers. The “sealed” column records your thesis’s treatment of absence from the disconnected initials; it does not mean the letter disappears from Arabic or from ordinary Qur’anic words.

THE COMPLETE THESIS VIEW · 22 → 14 / 8 → 29

The fourteen that speak. The eight sealed.

Your full architecture in one register. “Speaking” and “sealed” refer to presence or absence in the 29 muqattaʿat openings. The sky markers below follow the selected time.

Sky body and chamber are separate: ת Tav can be the Moon’s ruler while the Moon visits ט Tet. A body marker does not change whether a letter occurs in the openings. Saturn, Mars and Mercury positions are not loaded in this four-body edition.

ALL 29 · ENGLISH TEXT · NAMED SCHOLARLY READINGS

What did the commentator understand?

Chapter-specific explanations below summarize Ibn Kathir’s abridged Sunni commentary. Selected alternate readings are named. This is a reading library rather than an assertion that all imams share one explanation.

DAILY PRAYER · WHAT IS RECITED & WHAT IT MEANS

The recurring words, in English.

Under the cited Shi‘a rules, Al-Fatiha is the foundation in the first two prayer units. The same source recommends Al-Qadr in the first unit and Al-Ikhlas in the second. These recommendations do not mean every imam selects them at every service.

These describe the recitation pattern, not exact Tehran prayer times or whether a mosque uses its loudspeaker at each time. Friday congregational prayer has its own rules. Source ↗

English is browser speech; Arabic is recorded recitation by AbdulBaset AbdulSamad. This is not a live imam feed.