31/12/2024
💎SPECIAL TAHAAJUD FOR DECEMBER 31ST IS BID'AH IN ISLAM💎
Again, imams, alfas, missioners, shehus etc. have begun their usual jingles for special tahajjud in their various mosques. Like the christians, they will gather in the mosque, in a hall, or on a field to pray assiduously – purportedly ushering in the new year.
I ask: if Islam were of no man, but of man’s Creator (Allah), with the Qur’an and the Sunnah as its manual, and the holy Prophet as its practitioners’ model, from where did such a phenomenon originate – tahaajud for December 31st? There is no doubt that such a practice is alien to our religion, and whoever engages in it does so at his own peril.
How will the night of December 31st be special to us without it being special to those Allah referred to as exemplary figures to us – the noble Prophet and his sahaabah? Allah loved them and was pleased with them that he granted them entry into the eternal Abode even before their passage from the earth.
“Indeed, in the Messenger of Allah you have a good example to follow, for him who hopes for (the meeting with) Allah and the Last Day, and remembers Allah much”.
(Suurat Al-Ahzab: 21).
“And the foremost to embrace Islam of the Muhaajiruun (those who migrated from Makkah to Madeenah) and the Ansaar (the citizens of Madeenah who helped and gave aid to the Muhajiruun) and (also) those who followed them exactly – Allah is pleased with them, as they are pleased with Him. He has prepared for them Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise), to dwell therein forever. That is the supreme success”.
(Suurat At-Taubah: 100).
What is the significance of the last day of Dhul Hijjah (the twelfth month of the Islamic calendar), let alone Gregory’s December 31st? Staging a special tahajjud to usher in Hijrah has no place in Islam, and such cannot be tagged more than bid’ah (innovation), how much more the Gregorian Calendar which we are using on account of subjugation by the west.
All nights are equal except the Night of