CONGRATULATIONS ON
SLAMIC NEW YEAR
It has spread these days
through modern technology;
those advising people to seek
forgiveness and repent at the
end of the Islamic year while
congratulating them for the
start of the new year,
A. Allot this is an innovation This
is not the new year; this is only
terminology. It is not the new
year.
Every day your individual year
could complete; everyday, every
month and every week according
to when you were born
It is not regulated to the
month of Muharram. This
affair is only terminology.
Umar may Allah be pleased
with him took counsel with
the companions because the
workers from his offices would
come to him and not know
what (yearly) date to use.
Therefore, he took counsel
with the companions.
The calendar was
previously according to the
Christian calendar that was
already present but they
did not want to follow the
Jews and Christians.
Therefore, they came to
a consensus to make the
calendar according to the
migration of the Messenger
of Allah صلی الله علیه وسلم
because it was the greatest
event that occurred in Islam
thus they made it the beginning
of the Hijri year for the benefit
and need to do so, not to specify
the Hijri year with congratulations
or Dua; none of this has been
narrated (from the companions)
therefore this is an innovation.
SHAYKH SALIH AL-FAWZAN
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