When he was fifty-two years old, on the twenty-seventh night of the month of Rajab, in Mecca, Hadrat Jabrâil descended and took him from Masjid-i-Harâm to Masjid-i-Aqsa in Jerusalem and thence to heavens. In this Mi’râj, he saw Allâhu ta’âlâ. On this night, the daily five prayers of namâz became fard. Please read the final page of the fifth chapter of the second fascicle of Endless Bliss! When he was fifty-three years old, he migrated to Medina with a divine command. He left his house early in the morning, on Thursday, the twenty-seventh of the month of Safar. He came to Abû Bakr Siddîq’s house in the afternoon. After a short time, he and Abû Bakr left the latter’s house together. They went to a cave on Mount Sawr, five and a half kilometres south-east of Mecca. The way to this mount, which is 759 metres (about 2530 ft.) above sea level, was very rough. His blessed feet bled. They stayed in the cave for three nights and left it on Monday night. After a week’s travel, they arrived at Kubâ village near Medina on Monday, the eighth of Rabî’ul-awwal, which coincided with the twentieth of September.
It is written in the book of Tafsîr entitled Baydâwî that 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.
Endless Bliss First Fasicle | Page 237-238
