The Meaning of the Hadith: "Indeed, time has come full circle"
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Question:
Your Eminence, the sister, the cycle of time has come full circle.
Answer:
This means that the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) had the power to manipulate it during the jahiliyyah. They would make Dhu al-Qa'dah the month of Hajj, and Dhu al-Hijjah Muharram, and Muharram Safar. They played with the months until they made permissible what they wanted. So, time came full circle during the Farewell Pilgrimage; Dhu al-Hijjah became Dhu al-Hijjah, and Muharram became Muharram, and the matter continued on that basis.
Your Eminence, the sister, the cycle of time has come full circle.
Answer:
This means that the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah) had the power to manipulate it during the jahiliyyah. They would make Dhu al-Qa'dah the month of Hajj, and Dhu al-Hijjah Muharram, and Muharram Safar. They played with the months until they made permissible what they wanted. So, time came full circle during the Farewell Pilgrimage; Dhu al-Hijjah became Dhu al-Hijjah, and Muharram became Muharram, and the matter continued on that basis.
Source
صحيح البخاري (الشرح الثاني) — binbaz.org.sa (33:53)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.