Congratulating On The Occasion Of New Year

*Salaamun 'alaykum wa rahmat-ul-lahi wa barakātuh* 

```Congratulating on the occasion of the new year | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan حفظه الله|```

_In the name of Allaah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allaah (ﷺ) ._

*Question: It has spread these days through modern technology; those advising people to seek forgiveness and repent at the end of the Islamic year while congratulating them for the start of the new year.*

*🎙️ Answer: All of this is an innovation. This is not the new year; this is only terminology. It is not the new year. Every day your individual year could complete; everyday, every month and every week according to when you were born. It is not regulated to the month of Muharram. This affair is only terminology.* 

*Umar may Allah be pleased with him took counsel with the companions because the workers from his offices would come to him and not know what (yearly) date to use. Therefore, he took counsel with the companions. The calendar was previously according to the Christian calendar that was already present but they did not want to follow the Jews and Christians. Therefore, they came to a consensus to make the calendar according to the migration of the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم because it was the greatest event that occurred in Islam thus they made it the beginning of the Hijri year for the benefit and need to do so, not to specify the Hijri year with congratulations or Dua; none of this has been narrated (from the companions) therefore this is an innovation.*

*May Allaah accept our ibaadat and forgive our shortcomings.*

_❞Keep Reminding, for Indeed the ʀᴇᴍɪɴᴅᴇʀ ʙᴇɴᴇꜰɪᴛs ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇʀ ❝_

*Allaahu l Musta'aan*