Goodness Is in Islām Not the New Year’s

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

The blessed month of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla is approaching. All the months belong to Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, but He ﷻ has specifically designated for Him ﷻ, “Rajab Shahri,” “Rajab is My ﷻ month.” Sha’bān is the month of our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. And Ramadan is the month of the Ummah. These months are blessed months. We must prepare for them, we must not forget them. We must remember them.

Now New Year’s is coming, and people have decorated everywhere. As if there’s something great going on. What will happen if New Year’s comes? That’s one matter – but people expend so much effort on useless things. They give great importance to something that is completely unnecessary, that has not one atom-weight of benefit to themselves or their ākhirah. And things that truly deserve importance never even pass their minds.

That’s why we constantly remind people of this. These months are blessed months. In the past, even those who committed sins would abandon their sins in these months out of respect for them. There used to be people who were addicted to alcohol, but in these three months they wouldn’t put that forbidden thing in their mouths. They would show respect for it.

Now, let that aside, people who claim to be Muslims confuse people by saying these three months are unnecessary, useless things. These things they call unimportant are very important. We must always look for an opportunity to remember these beautiful spiritual doors and spiritual feasts that Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has opened for us. Let us benefit from them, respect them, honor them, and thank Allāh ﷻ. He ﷻ created us as Muslims, He ﷻ gave us the beauties of Islām, let us benefit from these beauties.

The other things like decorations are also unnecessary. Imitating other people is also not good. Allāh ﷻ has given you the most beautiful thing. Why would you imitate others? Let them imitate you. Imitation is not good. Imitating a disbeliever is not good. All their things are superficial, external. Everywhere, even the buildings and temples are ornate from the outside, but inside [the opposite]. The palaces are the same. How many of their palaces, the palaces of kings, do you go to?

They look beautiful from the outside, but when you go inside, there’s nothing but gloom; nothing at all. The palaces of Islām, the beauties of Islām, are absent here. Beauty is in Islām; therefore, do not seek peace, beauty, or goodness elsewhere. Allāh ﷻ has given you all of this. May Allāh ﷻ increase it and grant awareness to people, especially Muslims, in shā’a Llāh. Wa min Allāh at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

There are recitations of the Qur’an, salawāt, Yasin, verses, surahs, salawāt, tasbihs, tahlils, and good deeds; may Allāh ﷻ accept them. We dedicate these to the souls of our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, his family, his companions, all the prophets, saints, asfiya, our mashāyikh, the souls of all our ancestors, and the souls of believing men and women, Muslim men and women. May it reach them. May all the good intentions of those who read it also be fulfilled, in shā’a Llāh. For happiness here and hereafter, and strength of īmān, in shā’a Llāh.

Al-Fatiha.

•⁠ ⁠Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbaniق

19 December 2025/ 28 Jumada Al-Thani 1447

Fajr Prayer – Akbaba Dergah, Istanbul

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