The fact that the word "month" appears 12 times in the Quran was confirmed in the footnote of verse 9:36 of the Authorized English Version of the Quran (quoted below) by Dr. Rashad Khalifa, God’s messenger of the covenant.
God's System: Twelve Months Per Year*
[9:36] The count of months, as far as GOD is concerned, is twelve.* This has been GOD's law, since the day He created the heavens and the earth. Four of them are sacred. This is the perfect religion; you shall not wrong your souls (by fighting) during the Sacred Months. However, you may declare all-out war against the idol worshipers (even during the Sacred Months), when they declare all-out war against you, and know that GOD is on the side of the righteous.
*9:36 The word "month" is mentioned in the Quran 12 times, and "day" 365 times.
The table below was compiled by Submitters to assist people in knowing where the word month occurs and the words to exclude (i.e., plural / dual forms that occur in Arabic (note: Arabic and English linguistic rules are different). This is independent of how it may need to be translated in English or any other language. The links are to an external site providing a study of Arabic grammar for Quran. We don’t not take responsibility for the contents of any external site.
| Total occurrences of the word "month" (Arabic triliteral root: shin-ha-ra) in all its forms | ||
| Of which, the ocurrences of plural and dual forms (total) is: |
9 |
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Plural (2:197, 2:226, 2:234, 9:2, 9:5, 9:36, 65:4) |
7 | |
Dual (4:92, 58:4) | 2 |
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| The occurrence of singular form of the word "month" is: 21-9 = 12 in total | 12 |
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12 |
See also: Word "day" occurs 365 times in the Quran.