5 minutes

Farewell Hijri year

Dr.. Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Haddad

August 14, 2020

How fast as we pass a year and we receive another! We are in a time of high speed in everything, even in our lifetimes that are folded by days and nights, such as folding records for books, and we are negligent about our dearest thing, which is the age that is neither bought nor sold, and which is minutes and seconds, so we are as the poet said:

Days pass by us see, but we drive to the times and the eye looks

There is no return to that time that passed * nor to go this distressed gray

However, the speed of this year was not the speed of pleasure and happiness, whose year is a year. Rather, it was grayed by the troubles of news and the touar of dangers, day and night. The news of the epidemic went by hours of serenity, the wishes of the meeting, and good loyalty, and every time one hears disturbing news of the death of a relative or Infection of a loved one, but every person in fear that the infection will come to him from where it is not counted.

Thus people lived in this worry for about half of the Hijri year, and it is still striking the earth with its neighbors, and when God permits us to hear good news, stating that he has taken over the earths, and the dust has cleared from him, and the effects have gone away from him, so God does not answer them to the world and those on it - and God is not far away -.

Here we are bidding farewell to our year 1441 AH, and it is not farewell or indispensable, and it bears farewell to us while it carries an unprecedented history, its memory will remain for the coming ages, which generations after generations will look at, and perhaps they will take from it and remember the people of this year with some mercy and compassion.

We bid farewell to this year and we are fine, praise be to God, in the hope that we will live the coming years, so that we will receive a year and say goodbye to another, if God keeps a space for us from the term.

First: To thank God Almighty with great thanks, tongue, heaven and pillars that God Almighty has spared us from what afflicted many of His servants, so that His thanksgiving be a guardian of His blessings and a motive for his afflictions, for thanksgiving restricts blessings and pays vengeance, and it is satisfactory to the Almighty, as he most of his mention:﴿ And if you are grateful, he will be pleased with you, and his satisfaction with thanksgiving is a satisfaction from the thankful, as the people of rhetoric say: A reward for the sender of the mention of the situation and the will of the place, and how many blessings to Him, glory be to Him, He gave us without merit, deserves more thanks and much praise!

Second: To remember that a year has passed since God Almighty bestowed upon us of life, its page has been closed with good and bad, good and bad, good and bad. He went on with good deeds, we ask God Almighty to accept them, and bad ones. We ask God Almighty to cover them, forgive him and grant him well-being, and with negligence in obedience, and laziness in hastening good deeds and competing in justifications, we ask God Almighty not to blame us for that, and to send us all the boredom of men whose south shuns their beds And they hasten for good deeds while they are ahead of them.

Third: If we remember this, then we must hold ourselves accountable to rectify the rights and duties that can be remedied for our Lord, our brothers, our society and our country. Because the opportunity for the survival of a lifetime should be seized to make up for the deficiency and fill the defect that may be from the sinful slave, as indicated by the saying of the truth: or we didn’t make you remember what the one who remembers, and the repetition of you is the warning, and the warning and the warning comes, so the warning and warning of death are reminiscent of you. The previous one, and the reparation of what can be redeemed, so whoever has missed something is concerned with remedy the lack of duties and fulfills them, the necessary rights and returns them, and undertakes the consequences and returns them or relinquishes them, so the sane person is keen not to miss what can be rectified, so that he does not regret his negligence, with the possibility of reparation It has been reported that: “The people of Paradise will not regret anything except for an hour that passed by them during which they did not mention God.” He reminded God of performing the duties and rights that are assumed, such as remembrance of Him in the tongue, the heavens and the pillars, because his mention of the divine questioning is the remembrance of those who are glorified and great. A person is too late: “Even if one of them dies, the Lord says, 'You should return, so that I may do a good thing about what I have left, but there is no hour of regret.'

«Senior Muftiin Director of the Ifta Department in Dubai»

To read the previous articles of the writer please click on its name.