Tamara Gray – #AnseTalks Muharam Is About Fresh Starts
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Our new year begins in Muharram, which is the third of three sacred
months that come in a row. It's right after Hajj. We can think
about people going back from Hajj within and and we are receiving
the people that are coming back from hash those of us who didn't
go we're receiving them. They're coming to us. And this is a whole
new start for the ummah. This is a new start for the ummah. How is it
a new start for the ummah? It's a new start for the Ummah because if
you are the one who went to Hajj, you have a clean, fresh, empty
pages book. And if you are receiving your relatives and
friends and community members who have been in hajj, your your
community, is filled with people that have a fresh start, and so
together, we can have this fresh start. How do we as a culture
approach a new year? I know for every year of my life, when I was
a teenager and January would come around, I would be thinking about
my new year's resolutions. That's what I'd be thinking about my new
year's resolutions. And for us, as now, when I became a Muslim, I
still think about resolutions, because a resolution is connected
to what it's connected to a fresh start,
and it's in that is connected to Toba, to Toba and forgiveness.