The Hijri New Year

As-Salāmu ‘Alaykum wa RaḥmatuLlāhi wa Barakātuh. A‘ūdhu BiLlāhi Minash-shayṭāni r-rajīm. BismiLlāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Wa ṣ-Salātu wa s-Salāmu ‘alá Rasūlinā Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-Awwalīna wa l-Akhirīn. Madad yā RasūlAllāh, Madad yā Sādāti Aṣḥābi RasūliLlāh, Madad yā Mashāyikhinā, Dastūr Mawlana Shaykh Abdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistāni, Shaykh Muḥammad Nāẓim al- Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-Suḥbah wa l-Khayru fi l-Jam‘iyyah.

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm:

(Qur’ān 09:36). ‘Inna ‘Iddata Ash-Shuhūri ‘Inda Allāhi Athnā ‘Ashara Shahrāan’, ‘Indeed, the number of months with Allah is twelve [lunar] months.’

Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla is informing in Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan that a year comprises of twelve months in the presence of Allah ﷻ. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla created all of them. All of them have a wisdom, all of them have a benefit and all of them have their Wazifah/Duty. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla created them for people to count the days and to calculate how long we live and how much time is left. And He ﷻ gave the days, months and years in service to mankind.

So this year, the Hijri year of Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla gifted to our Holy Prophet ﷺ is coming to an end tomorrow. It has a great virtue. Who fasts on the end and the beginning of the year, it is counted as if he fasted for a year. Whoever can should do it.

It is the true year, it is the year of Islam. In terms of our religion, we should follow it. We cannot follow the other one, the Shamsi calendar, which means the solar calendar. Qamari is the lunar calendar. There is a difference in them; days are always changing in one and never changing in the other. The [Gregorian calendar] has a different Wazifah. Its Wazifah is for people’s sowing and reaping, for earning and travel. People can use it for Dunya. But the Hijri year is for Akhirah and for worship. The holy days are in it. To know the virtues and the things to do on them is from the conditions of Islam.

There was this calendar during the time of Mushriks in old times as well. But we don’t know well how their year was. But they had the same months like Dhu l-Qa’dah, Dhu l-Hijjah and Muharram. They used to make Hajj too. But there are four months when it is forbidden to make war. They would change it as they liked. Muharram would be before Dhu l-Hijjah, or Safar would be before Muharram. They did it as they liked based on a war or a possible attack.

When Islam came, our Holy Prophet ﷺ made the calendar right as Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla showed it. He ﷺ put the holy months consequent to each other. We are following that calendar. We are following the Hijri calendar. May this new year be blessed for people and for Muslims insha’Allah. Insha’Allah the new year will be a good year. May it be the year of Islam insha’Allah. May there be victory for Islam, may it be the year of Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam insha’Allah. We are hoping so every day. May it be good and full of Barakah for all of us insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 28 July 2022/ 29 Dhu l-Hijjah 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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