HİJRİ NEW YEAR
The diseased Mr Nefel, May Allah have mercy on him, our older brother, he helped us much. We were together. Mashallah, what do they say, meaning, “Words that nobody else has though of would come out of his mouth.” Shaykh Mawlana would say, “This man is a majzoob.” He would curse. Now, why are we saying this? Inshallah, the beginning of the Hijra Year is coming. Wednesday is the 1st, by the permission of Allah. Most people are not aware. One day, there was a mosque close by to our work place there. He was upset and did not go there. Why are you not going there? He said, “I fought with the imam.” He listened to the Juma sermon (khutba) on the Hijri New Year. The man did not mention anything about the New Year, the Hijra nor anything else. He got up during the Juma time. In fact he should not have but he was a majzoob. He said, “When New Year’s comes, you speak about not slaughtering turkeys, not to do this and not to do that. You give us a headache for 15 days. Now, our New Year has arrived. You are not mentioning this!” he cursed at the imam and left.
