5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi
5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi
5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi
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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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