Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

after staying here until the twenty-third of September, (the
autumnal equinox,) when day and night are of equal length, they
spent the day here and left for Medîna on the twelfth of Rabî’ulawwal,
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 corresponded 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 made war twenty-seven times, in nine times of which he
attacked as a soldier, and in the other occasions 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
current fascicle that the banner of the Ottoman State was designed
by Timurtash Pâsha.
He passed away in the blessed city of Medîna before noon on
Monday, Rabî’ul-awwal 12th, 11 [632 A.D.], when he was 62 or 61,
depending on 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 shroud
folded three times, and was buried where his blessed soul was
taken.
Sarwar-î ’âlam’s (Muhammad) blessed eyes would sleep, but
his blessed heart would not. He would go to bed hungry, but he
would feel satiated when he woke up. He never yawned. His
blessed body was luminous, and he never cast a shadow on the
ground. Flies would not alight on his clothes, nor would mosquitos
or other insects suck his blessed blood. When he was made
Rasûlullah (Allah’s Messenger) by Allâhu ta’âlâ, satans could no
longer ascend to heaven or steal news, nor could soothsayers any
longer make predictions.
If a person dreams of Rahmatan-lil-’âlamîn ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi
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