On Muharram and the Day of `Ashura
All praises are due to Allah ta`ala who has made the number of the months of the year twelve and has made some of these months sacred. I ask Allah ta`ala to make this year for all of you one of fearful awareness, increase in nearness to Allah, love for the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, increase in permissible wealth and well-being for you, your wives, husbands, children, men and women, amirs, wazeers and kutaab.
Allah ta’ala says:
“Verily the number of the months with Allah are twelve months in the Book of Allah from the Day He created the heavens and the earth. Four among them are sacred. This is the upright religion, therefore do not act unjustly towards yourselves in them.” Imam at-Tabari said in his tafseer that the Book referred to in the above verse is the Guarded Tablet (lawh mahfudh) in which is written every thing that will be from the decree of Allah. He also said: “These months are twelve in which four of them are sacred.
