Quran Gallery Collection
Muharram
2 essays on one theme, in the order the series set them.
2 essays
Muharram Twelve Months, One Called by Allah's Own Name The Qur'an sets four months apart from the other eight and calls that division itself "the correct religion." One of the four goes further still — a hadith gives it a name no other month in the calendar carries: the month of Allah. What that second distinction rests on, and why the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, answered a direct question about it by naming a fast. Muharram The Fast He Never Finished: What ʿĀshūrāʾ Still Asks ʿĀshūrāʾ was already sacred before Islam, became obligatory in Madinah, and then lost that obligation the moment Ramadan was legislated — yet the Prophet kept treating it as if almost nothing outranked it. What the hadith actually preserve about that day, and the ninth-day plan death cut short.
