The A'SHOORAH and The first arabic month of MUHARRAM .

Dear brothers! Allah swt. Created us and he created death and lives also, he created the jamanah/the period to give us the test of the life and the death. He divided the period into day, months, and years. What Allah swt saying 9:36 “Indeed, the number of months with Allah is twelve [lunar] months in the register of Allah”

In this verse we found Allah swt. gave us 12 months.They are the Islamic months and its starts from MUHARRAM and ends to the jilhajjah. We all know the English months but, if we don't know the lunar Islamic months as a Muslim it shouldn’t be like that and it would be considered that we are giving priority to the non- beliebers values, cultures more than our own Islamic values which is HARAM.

Allah swt. Gave us the life and the day, months are comes and  goes but, whoever will be able to use this life in the right way he will be success here and hereafter. what Allah swt. Saying in 103: 1. “I swear by the time 2.Most surely man is in loss 3.Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each other patience”
in this verses Allah swt. Saying all the people are in loss but, those who will follow Allah and his orders and do good deeds he will be successful. We ask to Allah swt. to grant us with them those who are successful.

Dear brothers! Today 5^th of muharram and This is the month of muharram the first arabic month. MEANS the new year started. When a new year comes to a merchant or businessman they count their yearly account. how much they achieved  and how much they lost in their businesses And they try to start the new year with new plans, new manues to improve their business.

But, we as a Muslim the new year comes to us not celebrate but, to think ourselves  how much good deeds we did. and how much we were obedient to practising Allah’s orders in last year. and a new year means to us to make lots repentance  for our misdeeds and should feel regret for the whatever misdeeds we did knowingly or unknowingly in the past year. Also, we should have a new plan for the new year that i wont commit any sins and strictly determined that I will make this plan practical into my daily life.

The most important Two things should be include to our new year plans which are:
1. We will try to avoid whatever we forbidden to do and we will do whatever we obliged to do:  like we are not allowed to get involved ourselves in any haram things. So, we should be determined to stay away from any kind of haram things in this new year. Because, Allah swt. Doesn’t accept any IBADAH while we are involve in  haram.
what prophet sw. Saying narrated by abi hurairah RA. “Allah swt. Is clean means pure and he doesn't accept any impure things and he commanded to the believers to have halal the way he ordered to his prophets to have halal”

so, staying away from harams this should be include to our new year’s plan.

2.we will Try to increase the Quranic/Islamic knowledge:

We are committing some sins unknowingly what we can avoid by increasing our knowledge. How important the seeking knowledge is i don't think i need to explain it. If we see surround of us we can find every single things are under control by the power of knowledge and as a Muslim obviously, it has to be the quranic knowledge. We are committing some sins unknowingly  if you have quranic knowledge you will be able to fight back to the SHYTAN otherwise, he will lose you and take you to the jahannam. there is a hadith prophet sw. Saying “a quranic knowledgable person are stronger against shaytan more then thousands of good doers he who has no proper Quranic knowledge”
so, Let’s think about ourselves where is my position? Do i know who am i? What's my responsibility? Do i know the meaning of kallimah/shahadah? Do i know how to recite the quran? IF I DONT KNOW I SHOULD START LEARNING QUR'AN FROM TODAY.

please, come forward to lean quran and sunnah. in our mosque at the moment we are running some quranic program at after zohor prayer and one is at 10:30 in  the night on every Tuesday. We have opportunities to know our religion.

So, these are the two type of plan should be include in our new years plan.

Dear brothers! This is the month of MUHARRAM.one of the blessed month. After the month of ramadan there are 4 blessed Islamic month which are muharram/julk’ada/julhajja and rajab which prophet sw. Mentioned in his last sermon which was at the mina in his final/last hajj.

Another reason is this month is blessed its because in this month the 10^th of muharram/ the day of A’SHOORAH

Mainly, there are two most important history took place on this day which we found from the Qu’ran and reliable sources:

1.On the day of Ashoorah Allah saved prophet musa aw. from the firaun and destroyed firaun and his followers: what Allah sw stating 2:50 “Remember the time when We parted the sea to make way for you and let you pass safely through it and then drowned Pharaoh's people before your very eyes”
2. On this day hussain ra. the grand son of prophet sw. Was brutally Killed in the field of KARBALA in Iraq:
on this story there are lots of fact which we cant finish to describe in this short time. to tell the main part of this story means how hussain ra. become shahid/ martyr. When the people of Kuffa/ people of Iraq they invited hussain RA. To accept him as their khalifa/ leader and take bayat/the oath in his hand. but, in that time the Iraq and s
surrounding area of Iraq was under controlled by yezid the son of muabia RA.

 In here what we have to mentioned according to the agreement that hussain RA. Meant to be the khalifa of the muslim ummah after the death of muabia ra. but, His son yezid took the power forcefully and didn't hand over the power to hussain RA. the grand son of prophet sw. what the muslim of kuffan didn't take it easily and this is why they invited hussain RA. To make him their leader.

finally, when he went there the yezid’s commander ziad threatened them and make them scared and then the people of kuffan turned back and finally, they didn't help the hussain RA.
in meanwhile there are lots of things happened and finally, on 61 hijri the 10^th of muharram Friday in the field of KARBALA they killed the hussain RA. And his 72 followers including the family members of prophet sw.
what prophet sw mentioned in a hadith that “zibraeel aw. Came to me to give the message that my muslim ummah will kill my this son the hussain RA.and zibraeel brought some red soil with him” sahih al jame albani this hadith reflects this true story.
and since then the muslim ummah are divided into many groups which started from the killing of third innocent  khalifa USMAN ra.
but, today what the group of shia do on this day in the name of showing their sympathy to hussain RA. on the day of 10^th muharrram which is nothing related with islam.
 so, these are the true story which happened on the day of 10^th muharram we found them QURAN and hadith and from reliable book of islamic history.

But, there are some saying that on this day Allah swt. Created sky and land and the flood of nooh aw. And the the tawbah of adam and eve accepted, Allha saved ibrahim from the fire of nomrud and alike these are baseless nothing from sahih hadith and reliable sources.

now the question is what should we do on that day the 10^th of muharram/the day of ashoorah?

As we mentioned before after the ramadan this is the month one of the great blessed month. prophet sw saying narrated by abi hurairah ra.
“after the fasting, praying in the month of ramadan in this month the month of Allah the nawafil fasting, praying in the night are GREAT REWARDABLE”
specially, the 10^th of muharram the day of ashoorah on this day prophet musa aw. Got najat from the firaun and he did fasting to show his gratefulness to Allah sw.

This is why prophet sw. Used to do fast on the day of ashoorah .The ashoorah word means 10^th.so, the 10^th of the muharram called ashoorah.
 “prophet sw. Asked about this day he said fasting on this day its make up for the sins what committed in the past year.” Narreted by abi Qatadah RA. (muslim)

So, we should fast on this day as well as 9^th of muharram the day before ashoorah. Its because the people of other religion the chrichtian  used to do fast on this day at the early time of islam. When prophet sw. saw that he told his sahabah make difference from them and he said in a hadith “Inshalla if i be alive in next year ill fast on 9^th of muharram as well” narreted by ibn abbas RA. (muslim)

May Allah give us tawfiq to do fast on the 12^th and 13^th of the november! May Allah give us tawfiq to do extra nawafil prayers and fasting in this month