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Well messenger, we ask Allah to send his peace and blessings upon him, the prophets and

messengers that came before him, his companions and family that served alongside him and those that

follow and his blessed path until the day of judgment. We ask Allah to make us amongst them.

I mean your brothers and sisters, because it's cold, I'll make it very short in Shah-i-Latana.

It should be very obvious that there is no religious significance to the new year

switching from December 31st to January 1st. In fact, that's not just true for the Gregorian

calendar, even from a digitally perspective with our own Hidji calendar, there is no established

practice of marking the new year in a way that represents a change in any way whatsoever,

except that it allows us to date our events in accordance with the momentous occasion of the Hidji

law. But anything that would cause us to reflect on the change of time and why we are still here

and what we need to be doing is good for us in Shah-i-Latana to take time and to actually think

about what it means to still be here on January 1st, 2021. And Subhanallah, there's this interesting

Hadith which I've never seen cited so many times in one period of time as I have in the last week.

And it matches with also an unprecedented time where I cannot remember in my lifetime a single

year that was cursed as much as 2020. That people would curse the year, people would say we're

ready for it to go, people would say all of these things about what the year was like and then

attribute a curse to the year. And I wanted to talk about this Hadith and what it means and what

it doesn't mean and then what the new year means and what it doesn't mean for us. And that is the

Hadith that we find in Bukhari and Muslim where the Prophet ﷺ said to Allah,

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