By Shaykh Mawlānā Muhammad Saleem Dhorat hafizahullāh Muharram, the first month of the Islāmic calendar, is one of the four sacred months mentioned in the Glorious Qur’ān: Lo! The number of the months with Allāh is twelve months by Allāh’s Ordinance in the day that He created the heavens and the earth. Four of them are sacred: that is the right religion. So wrong not yourselves in them…(9:36) The specification of these four sacred months is stated in a hadīth narrated by Abū Bakrahradhiyallāhu ‘anhu that Rasūlullāh sallallāhu ‘alayhi wasallam said, “Verily......

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