Amazing Muharram

Alhamdulillah, Allah blessed us with our fourth child recently, a beautiful baby girl called Sophia.  As you can imagin we have been very busy which has meant that blogging has taken a back seat in recent weeks.  Inshallah I am ready to blog a little more now and seeing as we have entered the blessed month of Muharram I thought I would remind myself of the importance of this month.

Our beloved Prophet Muhammad informed us about four sacred months in the Islamic calendar. Imaam Bukhari (ra) in his sahih records that Abu Bakar (ra) said that the Prophet Muhammad addressed  them in his farewell sermon saying:

Indeed the year evolves as it was the day Allah created the heavens and the earth.  The year has 12 months, among them four are sacred, three are successive, Dhul Qi’dah, Dhul Hijjah, Muharram and Raj

Allah says in the glorious Qur’an

Indeed the number of months by Allah are twelve, so was it ordained by Allah on the day He created the heavens and earth, of them four are sacred.” Surah Taubah

Fasting in this month of Muharram

Abdullah Ibn Abbas (ra) relates:

“RasulAllah (saw) did hijrah from Makkah to Medina. At that time RasulAllah (saw) saw the Jews keeping fast on the day of Ash’ura (10th Muharram). He (saw) asked them: ‘is this a special day in your religion? ‘they said: ‘yes, this is a very important day for us, on this day Allah freed Prophet Musa (as) and bani Israel, and drowned the army of Firaun, as a means of thanking Allah Prophet Musa (as) fasted so we also fast on this day. Prophet Muhammad said: ‘we have more right to Musa (as) than you.’ Then Rasulallah (saw) himself would keep the fast of Ash’ura and ordered the Ummah to do the same. (Bukhari, Muslim)

When the Prophet Muhammad fasted the day of Ashura, the people told him that this day is a day that Jews and Christians honor. The Prophet said: “When the following year comes, Allah willing, we shall fast both the ninth and the tenth day of Muharram (that is to be different from the Jews and the Christians.)” The Prophet (SAW) died before the following year.”[Muslim]

Subhanallah, so many amazing events, here is a list of things that have happened on the day of Ashura

1. Repentance of Prophet Adam (as) was accepted by Allah

2. The ship of Prophet Nuh (as) came to rest on a mountain called Al-Judi.

3. Prophet Ibrahim (as) as born on this day.

4. He got the title Khalil-ullah (friend of Allah ) on this day.

5. The fire in which Prophet Ibrahim (as) was thrown by the king Namrud became cool and means of safety for Prophet Ibrahim, by the order of Allah .

6. Allah delivered Prophet Ayub (as) from distress and he was restored to prosperity.

7. By the Grace of Allah , Prophet Yunas (as), after being swallowed by a huge fish for forty days, was casted out on the shore.

8. Prophet Mussa (as) got victory over Pharaoh.

9. Prophet Suleman (as) was made a king to rule over mankind, Jins, Animals and the weather.

10. Prophet Idris (as) and Prophet Isa, son of Mary (as) were lifted up alive to the heavens.

11. Imam Hussain (ra), the grandson of our beloved Prophet, got martyred at Karbala in Iraq.

12. The day of resurrection and judgement will take place on this day (Ashura)

(Ghunia-Al-Talibeen & Tafseer-e-Sawi)

nb. I am not sure how authentic some of these are as I am unable to locate these books, that is not to say that they are not authentic, I am just personally ignorant of some of them.

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