eer-bied (1)

In Islam...

our calendar, the days, the months that we are passing through...

they have not been changed.

They have not been played with. They are the same days as when Allah (SWT) created the Heavens and the Earth. And in Islam, due to the wisdom of those who came before us, alhamdulillah, we have our own calendar. And this calendar, this Hijri calendar, it was decided upon by the Companions after the passing of the Holy Prophet (AS). All those who are shouting 'bidah, bidah, bidah!', they should keep silent. Because Hz. Umar al-Faruq (RA), the Guardian of the Sunnah, he is the one who instituted the Hijri calendar.

-

When Hz. Umar (RA) was the Khalifa...

the territory of Islam became huge. 

And there was so much communication happening, so many messages going back and forth, so many funds that had to be accounted for, that he said we need a standard calendar. And so, some of the people came and said, we should make a calendar like the Persians. Some said, we should make a calendar like the Bani Israil... 

Hz. Umar (RA) and the other high-level Sahabis, they agreed to make the calendar be based upon the Hijrah of the Holy Prophet (AS). The most significant event in the history of the Ummah, one of the most significant events in the history of the world. 

The day that the Holy Prophet (AS) entered into Madinah, the day that his mission became opened, the day that Allah (SWT) ended the period of oppression in Mecca, and opened the period of the spread of Islam. 

And Hz. Umar said... ‘We are going to have a lunar calendar, and we are not going to allow any playing with the days.’

-

Alhamdulillah, we are continuing with that calendar. 

All the way through the Glorious Ottoman Empire, less than 100 years ago, they were continuing that calendar. People were not calculating their days according to Roman kings and pagan idols. They were not saying January, February... They were saying the names of the Month as they had been said by Allah SWT. 

As they had been said by the Holy Prophet (AS), as they are in the Sight of Allah: Muharram, Safar, Rabiul Awwal, Rabiul Thani, Jamadial Awwal, Jamadial Thani, Rajab, Shaban, Ramazan, Shawwal, Zul Qaida, and Zul Hijj. Even the names of our months, they have heybat and they have honor.

-

But the Muslims of the Ahir Zaman [end times]... 

they left this heybat and this honor. 

The Muslims of the Ahir Zaman do not have any heybat or any honor left. And one of the things that they left behind was the calendar. They left behind their identity according to time. They left behind the days and the nights that are honored by Allah.

~bron~