Geydar Dzhemal — Happy New Year! Happy New Shirk!
The main holiday of the Soviet man was and remains the New Year. It is clear why: it has nothing to do with ideology, with “November 7” and “May 1”, those who kept a fig in their pocket did not mind it, and the guardians of ideological purity could relax along with simple “hamsters” under the chimes. On the other hand, the New Year seemed to hint at some renewal, at a glimmer of hope that tomorrow everything could be different, that is, in this holiday, in addition to its political “zeroing out”, there was also a purely human, somewhere even “humanistic” component. But generally speaking, the New Year is a celebration of Time. Time in its purest form.
Previously, in traditional society, the counting of years was marked in those civilizations that professed the cult of the sun and the cosmic seasons by certain astrological events. The most famous so far is “Navruz” — the beginning of the new year, coinciding with the vernal equinox.
In a liberal post-traditional society, even such “cosmistic” hints and meanings have been removed: the new year, which comes on the night of December 31st to January 1st, is absolutely not connected with anything — neither with mythological figures of cultural heroes, nor with cosmic events… As there is pure time!
However, for a Muslim, this is by no means a harmless neutral thing. “Time” is another name for doom, a blind and merciless force that goes around in circles, nullifying everything that exists. In the Qur’an, this force is called “dahr” and the Bedouins, rejecting the appeal of monotheism addressed to them, declare: “We live and we die, and only time (dahr) kills us.”
The cult of time existed in ancient pre-Islamic Iran. The name of this “god” is Zervan, whence the name of the most ancient Aryan religion is “zervanism”. To the ancient Greeks, the same “god” was known as Father-Time, Kronos, aka Saturn of the Romans. Uranus, the sky, and Kronos, the time of the Greeks, are divided into two different aeons, following one another. For the Iranians, time and sky coincided, hence the expression “charkhi-falak” — “the wheel of doom” or the eternally rotating sky, which, like a puppeteer, lifts puppets from a box and drops them again, knocking bones, to the bottom when they play their role.
This Zoroastrian image was used with remarkable artistic power in one of his rubaisim by Omar Khayyam, in general, a completely orthodox Shafi’i mullah. An ordinary circle has 360 degrees, and a circle described by a rotating sky has 365 days of parking. According to the Zoroastrian doctrine, every day there is a special independent entity that has its own angel. Strictly speaking, a Zoroastrian can celebrate every day of the year by honoring the angel of that day. But seriously speaking, temporary angelology has completely converted from Zoroastrianism to Christianity, and newborns there are named after the angels of the day on which they were born, although the role of these “angels” is played by the characters of religious history — saints. The word “saint” itself has an Indo — European root and is also a key term of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism — “sventa”. Sventa-Manyu is the Holy Spirit, the Savior, usually depicted as a white dove — one of the faces of the Zoroastrian trinity, consisting besides him of God the father Zervan and God the son of Ahura Mazda, whom Europeans know by the name of Ormuzd. By the way, one of his manifestations, Mitra, has its own “angel day” at birth — December 25. On Mithraic icons, he was depicted as a shepherd boy with a lamb on his shoulder (that is, returning a stray sheep to the flock). In other words, this date was borrowed by Christians and attributed to the birth of our Prophet Isa (may Allah bless him), because the Jews, of course, had a lunar calendar and dates according to the solar calendar simply did not appear there.
In passing, we note that Jews, as monotheists, did not celebrate birthdays at all — this is strictly an Iranian tradition.
So, the New Year is a holiday of time — dahr, which is worshipped by the “spiritual” descendants of the Bedouins, completely freed from even a hint of a sacred meaning (since the time of the sending of the Merciful Quran, “Bedouins” have become synonymous and the personification of religious stupidity and animal cynicism. Allah (holy and Great) says about them in His book that they are worse than animals).
As for the “fravarti” or angel, referring to the first of January, the day when nothing happens, because all the adherents of this ritual are in a severe hangover — this is the angel of disappointed hopes and bitter contrition. For each successive year, with which both the Soviet “tops” and their “father commanders” linked their timid expectations, turned out to be, if not certainly worse than the previous one, then in its own way no less terrible. There were, of course, milestone years in the history of profanity, which won on Russian territory, but each such milestone is driven into a whole lake of blood. It should be recognized that the transition from December 31 to January 1 is one of the most ominous of the regularly recurring dates in the history of mankind.
Of course, what is a disaster for the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, from the point of view of the righteous Lot(pbuh), is only the fate that befell these scoundrels. Let’s be with Lot, brothers, and not with his inappropriately looking back wife: let’s look only ahead, relying on God’s providence. And we trust in the Almighty.