Scholars aren’t 100% sure what sort of calendar the Arabs originally used but we do know one thing: it certainly was not a lunar calendar. The Islamic lunar calendar is inherited from the old Arab calendar the names of the months in the Islamic calendar are the same as the names used by the pre-Islamic Arabs. We Muslims get to experience Ramadan in all seasons of the year. This means that the month of Ramadan can occur in Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Winter. All you need to know is that the months of the Islamic lunar calendar are not fixed to the seasons of the year. You don’t even need to know that Muslims use a lunar calendar or what a lunar calendar is to understand this. Someone who’s known Muslims for about 16-17 years knows that Ramadan is now 6 months earlier than it used to be and that in the same number of years, it’ll therefore go back to where it was originally and complete a 33-year cycle. You could know absolutely zero about Islam, but if you closely pay attention to this trend long enough, you’ll be able to guess accurately that Ramadan will gradually pass through all the seasons of the year. Even people who know very little about Islam can clearly tell that their Muslim friends, neighbours and colleagues are doing that thing where they don’t eat or drink stuff and many of them might have figured out that this seems to happen earlier and earlier every year. Pretty much everyone knows by now that we Muslims use some mysterious calendar that’s out of sync with the seasons.
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