Keeping the calendar, yes, it looks like a small thing.
But in reality, it is a big thing.
Because the Muslims, we don’t just have a separate identity. We have a Divine Identity. The Muslims have always had a separate, Divine identity. In every place that Islam went, even if the Muslims were few in number, they kept their own Divine identity.
And by keeping that identity, they kept their honor and their heybat. You keep your own calendar. You keep your own food. You keep your own dress. You keep your way of praying. You keep your way of conducting your family affairs.
And when the Muslims acted like that...
people admired them and wanted to be like them.
O Believers !
Our New Year is coming !
The intelligent man must ask himself, ‘did I become better or worse?’
It is such a simple question. But it is the most difficult question to answer. Because to answer that question, a man must be sincere. Because to answer that question, the sincere man will realize, ‘just as I cannot look at my own face without a mirror, I must find a mirror to help me look at my faith.’
And those mirrors, they are the Friends of Allah. Don’t trust your own mirror. If we want to know how we did this year, we must go to a Friend of Allah and put our heart in front of his heart. Because the hearts of the Friends of Allah, their hearts are mirrors that have been polished and they are clean.
When we sit with them, we will see the reality of our state.
And by sitting with them, they will teach us...
the Way of cleaning our heart.
~Shaykh Lokman Effendi Hz~
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