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doing such services as building mosques, schools for teaching the<br />

Qur’ân, and the like.”<br />

An eye whose looks take no warning,<br />

Is one’s enemy on one’s own head.<br />

Ear that takes no advice at each hearing;<br />

In its hole one must pour hot lead!<br />

A hand that has no good, pious doing,<br />

Is not given Paradise grade.<br />

Foot must be cut if worship’s not its knowing;<br />

Hang it near mosque, let others dread!<br />

If the heart’s not inhabited by divine loving,<br />

Don’t call it heart, it’s fed in the mead!<br />

Don’t call the devil my nafs; it takes you to evil-doing.<br />

Nafs will run to good, like downhill sled.<br />

How could one call it heart, which Satan’s leading;<br />

By pride it’s led, and on grudge it’s fed.<br />

8 – THE CONVERSION OF A<br />

SOLAR YEAR INTO A LUNAR YEAR<br />

As it has been stated in the chapter captioned PRAYER TIMES<br />

in the fourth fascicle, one of the units of measurement of time is the<br />

year. Two kinds of years of different lengths are: solar year and<br />

lunar year. A solar year is the duration of time in which the earth<br />

makes one tour around the sun: which is 365.242 solar days. Lunar<br />

year is the length of time it takes for the moon to make 12 rotations<br />

around the earth: this takes an average of 354.367 solar days.<br />

Therefore, a solar year is 10.875 days longer than a lunar year.<br />

Regarding the starting point of time, two types of calendars are<br />

being used: Hegira and Gregorian. The Gregorian one is<br />

supposed to have started at the birthday of the Prophet Îsâ ‘alaihissalâm’,<br />

However, contrary to the common belief, it is written in,<br />

Cosmographia, by Hasîb Bey, that King Charles IX of France<br />

ordered in 970 [1563 A.D.] that the new year should start on 1<br />

January. The Hegira calendar starts with the year when our<br />

Prophet (sallallâhu alaihi wa sallam) migrated to the city of Medina.<br />

The starting day of the Hegira solar year is the 20th of the<br />

Gregorian September, which was Monday, the 7th of September of<br />

the Roman year, when he entered Medina. This information is<br />

written in further detail in the calendar of Abuz-ziya, dated 1310<br />

[1893 A.D.]. The Persian solar year starts six months before the<br />

Hegira solar year, on the 20th of March, which coincides with the<br />

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