Importance of 2024

 

The silly person is the one who is blessed but chooses something else, something imperfect over his blessing. Is not the blessing from your Creator, your Lord, your Provider, Allah the best?

In my last blog, it was mentioned that if there was any day to truly celebrate then it would be the battle of Badr, the battle in which the Muslims defeated the pagans of Mecca. The battle before which Prophet Muhammad ﷺ made a plea to Allah for victory so that Islam is not lost if the Muslims are killed at that battle. Yet here we are in troubled times while we incline to a system other than that ordained by Allah and celebrating events and dates which are foreign to the teachings of Islam. Before there is any misunderstanding, we are in a non-Muslim country, and we are naturally therefore part of the system. However, it is one thing to partake in the system as is necessary but you must be circumspect to that which is not essential, but merely enjoyment and indeed, at times, frivolous. As we enter the Gregorian calendar year of 2024, there is not much to celebrate. Yet Muslims partook in celebrations and took the date and new year to be significant. If so, significant in which way? While Allah has prescribed the Hijri, lunar, calendar, how is it that you pray for a good new year while that new year has its origin in paganism. How is it that the lunar calendar is perfect, and it can only be so because Allah ordained it. The calendar is important in any system. Thus, from a Muslim point of view, the perfect Hijri lunar calendar must trump the imperfect system and calendar of western civilisation. A cursory glance at the Gregorian calendar then the length of the months has no clear reasoning with a month being twenty-eight days while others are either thirty or thirty-one. More confusing is it that months September to December have a numeric prefix from seven for September, eight for October, nine for November and ten for December. However, these are months nine to twelve which means that this calendar is somehow flawed. Were you to analyse the system further, you are sure to pick up many strange things. If there was to be a simple matter of choice between the Islamic system and any other system, then it must be easy to choose the Islamic over anything else. Islam has a calendar which trumps any other calendar and system. Even if there is an issue or something from another system, while Islam is silent on the matter, then it does not automatically mean that you can adopt that matter.

To put things in perspective, if you look around you and take only the Filisteeni issue, then how conflicted are you in your approach and support for these oppressed people. Your system is the Islamic system with its own calendar, its own days of celebration, its own method of celebration. Yet while you claim to support the oppressed and pray for them, you discard the blessings of Allah by choosing to partake in something foreign to Islam. Most don’t know the Hijri date (even approximately) or how close Ramadan is. Furthermore, Islam teaches that the day starts at “sunset” and not midnight. Such is it that the difference between truth and falsehood cannot be trivialised. To be aware is to choose Hijri lunar over Gregorian while we accept that in many cases, we do record the Gregorian date and refer to it. Ease of use under the circumstance is not a key to open the door to discarding the blessings of Allah.

 

You may also be interested in reading (click the link):

https://capemuslimspeak.blogspot.com/2024/01/can-you-see-victory-soon.html

 

 

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