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Your brothers and sisters because it's cold I'll make it very short

insha Allah's a la 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 Hidjorie perspective with our own Hidgini 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

Hijolah. 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 sha-lata to take time and to actually think about what it means to still be here on January 1st

2021.

And some habala, 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 Hadid. 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 Bukari and Muslim where the Prophet

Allah al-Aah al-Aahla, you're Zine,

you're Zinnib NUadama, you're a zubudha,

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