1 - Endless Bliss - Hüseyin Hilmi Işık

ook of Tafsîr entitled Baydâwî that after staying here until the
twenty-third of September, when day and night are of equal
length, they spent the day here and left for Medîna on the
twelfth of Rabî’ul-awwal, a Friday, arriving in the blessed city on
the same day. Later, during the caliphate of ’Umar ul-Fârûq, the
first day of the month of Muharram of that year, which was
sixty-six days before the Hijrat, became the beginning of the
Muslims’ Hijrî kamarî calendar. That first day, according to
historians, was in the year 622 A.D. It is written in Ahmad Ziyâ
bey’s book Ilm-i Hey’et, printed in 1316 [1898 A.D.], that it
corresponds with Friday, the sixteenth of July. The beginning of
Muslim’s Hijrî shamsî year (Hegira solar calendar) is the day
when he entered the village, Kubâ, which was the 20th of
September. The first day of the year of 623 A.D. was in the first
year of the Hegira solar calendar, and lunar calendar.
One solar year contains 365.342 days. And one lunar year
contains 354.367 days, that is, 354 days plus eight hours plus
48.5 minutes.
He went to war twenty-seven times, nine times of which he
attacked as a soldier, and the other times he occupied the rank
of commander-in-chief. He used two types of flags in his holy
wars. His Râya was black. His Liwâ, which was smaller, was
white. We have already explained in the twenty-ninth chapter of
the first part (of the Turkish version) that the banner of the
Ottoman State was designed by Timurtaş Paşa.
In the city of Medina, he passed away before noon on
Monday, Rabî’ul-awwal 12th, 11 [632 A.D.], when he was 62 or
61, according to the calculations done by using the lunar
calendar or the solar calendar, respectively. Without taking his
holy shirt off, he was washed three times, was wrapped with a
new white shrould folded three times, and was buried where his
blessed soul was taken.
Sarwar-î âlam’s (Muhammad) blessed eyes used to sleep,
but his blessed heart would not sleep. He used to go to bed
hungry, but he would feel satiated when he got up. He never
yawned. His blessed body was luminous, and he never cast a
shadow on the ground. Flies didn’t alight on his clothes, nor
would mosquitos or other insects suck his blessed blood. When
he was made Rasûlullah (Allah’s Messenger) by Allahu ta’âlâ,
satans could not ascend to the sky and could not get news any
longer, nor could soothsayers make predictions.
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