Safar al-Muzaffar is the second month of the Islamic calendar. Literal meaning
of Safar is empty. During this month the houses used to be empty and deserted
because the ban on going to war in the month of Muharram came to an end and
everyone proceeded towards the battlefield.
Safar also means to be yellow. When the names of the months were being given it
was the season of autumn and the leaves of the trees were yellow.
Many people have erroneous beliefs regarding this month i.e. it is a month of
misfortune and calamities. The teachings of Allah Ta'ala and His Most Beloved
Rasool (SallAllahu Alaihi wa Sallam) gives us clear guidelines on such incorrect
beliefs.
Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta'ala) says in the Qur'an al-Kareem:
ما أصاب
من مصيبة إلا بإذن الله
"No
misfortune befalls except by Allah’s command..." [Surah
Tagabun, Verse 11]
These erroneous beliefs have also been condemned in the context of the following
Ahadith:
لا عدوى
ولا طيرة ولا هامة ولاصفر
There is no
superstitious owl, bird, no star-promising rain, no bad omen in the month of
Safar. [Sahih Bukhari, Hadith 5707]
لا عدوى
ولا صفر ولا غول
There is no
bad omen in the month of Safar and no Ghouls (evil spirits).
[Sahih Muslim, Hadith 2222]
The above Ahadith clearly refutes all incorrect beliefs and superstitions
regarding the month of Safar. These incorrect beliefs flow from the pre-Islamic
period of Jahiliyyah .
The Month of Safar during the Days of Ignorance
The Muhaddithin have recorded many of the superstitions harboured by the Arabs
during the Days of Ignorance. A few are mentioned below:
1. The pre-Islamic Arabs believed Safar to be a snake which lives in the stomach
of a human being and when hungry, bites the person. This is the discomfort one
experiences when gripped by the pangs of hunger.
2. Some said Safar are worms which originate in the liver and ribs due to which
the colour of the person becomes yellow, a condition we know today as jaundice.
3. According to some, the month of Safar flanked by Muharram and Rabi al Awwal
is full of calamities and misfortune.
With the advent of Islam and the teachings of Sayyadina Rasoolullah (SallAllaho
Alaihi wa Sallam), all evil and incorrect beliefs common in pre-Islamic times
were discarded.
Incorrect Beliefs:
Today too, there are some Muslims who hold incorrect beliefs regarding the month
of Safar.
1. A nikah performed
in this month would not be successful.
2. This month
is full of misfortune and calamities.
3. To
commence any important venture, business etc. during this month will bring bad
luck.
4. The first
to the thirteenth of Safar is ill-fortune and evil.
5. The person
who distributes food or money on the 13th of Safar will be saved from its
ill-fortune.
6. To
celebrate the last Wednesday of Safar and regard it as a holiday.
What to do:
1. To shun all types of erroneous beliefs regarding the blessed month of Safar.
2. To understand that the most unfortunate person is he who disobeys Allah
Ta'ala's commandments e.g. does not perform the five daily salaah etc. It is
narrated in a hadith that Rasoolullah (SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam) said: "Pray,
0 Allah! Cause not anyone of us to be a wretched destitute." He then asked: "Do
you know who is a wretched destitute?" Upon the request of the Sahabah (Radi
Allahu Ta'ala Anhum) he replied, "A wretched destitute is he who neglects his
salaat."
3. We should understand that all conditions which befalls us, good or bad,
favourable, or unfavourable are from Allah Ta'ala, (as a result of our actions).
Allah Ta'ala says: " Whatever misfortune befalls you, it is due to the things
your hands have wrought, and He forgives many a sin." (Surah 42 - Verse 30).
This can also be confirmed by the following Hadith:
Sayyadina Jabir (Radi Allahu Ta'ala Anhu) has said that, "I have heard Sayyadina
Rasoolullah (SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam) saying, the descending of illness and
evil superstition befalling in the month of Safar is untrue."
..:: Important dates and Anniversaries in the month of Safar ::..
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Date |
URS Sharif (Passing Of) |
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1 |
Hadrat Abu Bakr Ahmad Ismail Jurjani |
|
1 |
Hadrat Khwaja Hassan Salaar |
|
1 |
Hadrat Mawlana Khuda Bakhsh Multani |
|
1 |
Hadrat Sayyidna Abu al-Qasim Shah Ismail Hassan Marharwi |
|
1 |
Hadrat Haji Waris Ali Shah |
|
1 |
Hadrat Jamalullah Rampuri |
|
1 |
Hadrat Khwaja Shah Muhammad Sulaiman Tounsawi |
|
2 |
Khulaifa Adil al-Hakim Thani bin Abdul Rahman al-Nasir Maliki Andalusi |
|
2 |
Hadrat Abu al-Abbas Ahmad Zouq Baransi Farsi |
|
2 |
Mawlana Fadal Ahmad Sufi bin Mawlana Abdul Ahad Muhaddith Pilibhiti |
|
3 |
Hadrat Khwaja Hassanuddin Jalabi |
|
3 |
Hadrat Shaykh Sultanuddin Ahmad Mawlana Sanjani |
|
3 |
Hadrat Dewan Muhammad Munawar Ali |
|
3 |
Hadrat Khwaja Dana Surrati |
|
3 |
Mujahid Kabeer Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi |
|
3 |
Hazrat Shah Faqeerullah Alawi Afghani Thumma Sindhi |
|
3 |
Mufti Mehmood Jaan Khan Qadiri Alaihir Rahmah (Khalifa-e-AlaHadrat) |
|
4 |
Hadrat Abu Saeed Chishti |
|
4 |
Hadrat Khwaja Qutubuddin Jonpuri |
|
4 |
Hadrat Kareem Shah Surrati |
|
4 |
Khwaja Mutma'een Tounsawi |
|
4 |
Hadrat Allamah Mahmood Azamgadhi |
|
4 |
Hadrat Mawlana Nasir Ali Hanafi Gayaspuri Azeemabadi |
|
4 |
Hadrat Allamah Mufti Gulam Hussain Naqshbandi Essa Khelwi |
|
5 |
Hadrat Umm al-Mu'mineen Maymunah |
|
5 |
Hadrat Mawlana Yaqoob Charkhi Naqshbandi |
|
5 |
Hadrat Shah Ismail Chishti |
|
5 |
Hadrat Dewan Muhammad Hamid |
|
5 |
Hadrat Shah Gulam Rashid Jonpuri |
|
5 |
Hadrat Mawlana Naeemullah Behraichi |
|
5 |
Hadrat Qari Maqbool Hangal |
|
5 |
Hadrat Khwaja Muhammad Sulayman |
|
5 |
Hadrat Khwaja Muhammad Nizamuddin |
|
5 |
Hadrat Hakeem Najam al-Ghani Rampuri |
|
6 |
Hadrat Khwaja Ilmuddin Ilm al-Haq Farooqui Chishti |
|
6 |
Hadrat Shams al-Din Arif |
|
6 |
Hadrat Shah Sulaiman Tounsawi |
|
6 |
Hadrat Baba Bhullay Shah |
|
7 |
Hadrat Ali bin Mawfiq Baghdadi |
|
7 |
Hadrat Abu Bakr Muhammad Nisaj Toosi |
|
7 |
Hadrat Shaykh Bahauddin Zakariya Multani |
|
7 |
Hadrat Shaykh Abu Ishaq Abu Sahal Sa'looki |
|
7 |
Hadrat Sayyid Kamil Shah Lahori |
|
7 |
Hadrat Khwaja Muhammad Sulaiman Tounsawi |
|
7 |
Mulla Muhammad Hassan bin Qazi Gulam Mustafa |
|
8 |
Hadrat Sayyid Abdul Jaleel Dehlawi |
|
8 |
Hadrat Shah Abdul Jaleel Baghdadi |
|
8 |
Hadrat Mawlana Sayyid Liaqat Ali Shah Razawi |
|
8 |
Hadrat Khwaja Salahuddin Chishti |
|
9 |
Hadrat Sayyiduna Imam Ali Moosa |
|
9 |
Hadrat Imam al-Muslimeen Sayyiduna Ali Raza |
|
9 |
Hadrat Sheeran Almaani |
|
9 |
Hadrat Akhoon Sher Dal Haq Pandoli |
|
9 |
Hadrat Meer Abu al-Ula Akbarabadi |
|
9 |
Hadrat Sufi Inayatullah Shah bin Makhdoom Fadl Allah Baghdadi |
|
10 |
Umm al-Mu'mineen Hadrat Juweriyah |
|
10 |
Hadrat Shah Barkhurdar Korwi |
|
10 |
Hadrat Mawlana Hakeem Ahmad Ali Khairabadi |
|
11 |
Hadrat Abu Abdullah Ahmad bin Yahya Baghdadi |
|
11 |
Hadrat Abu Ishaq Qassaar |
|
11 |
Hadrat Shaykh Muhammad Ismail Qaysari |
|
11 |
Hadrat Abu Nasar Abdullah Siraj Toosi |
|
11 |
Hadrat Umar bin Muhammad Fadl Allah |
|
11 |
Hadrat Shaykh Taajuddin Baqai |
|
11 |
Hadrat Abu al-Abbas Ahmad bin Rayf Andalusi |
|
11 |
Hadrat Shaykh Shamsuddin Nagori |
|
11 |
Hadrat Sayyid Muhammad Baghdadi |
|
11 |
Hadrat Sayyid Mubarak bin Abaz |
|
11 |
Hadrat Qasim Anwar |
|
11 |
Hadrat Sayyid Ibrahim Sarmadi |
|
11 |
Hadrat Hafiz Ilahi Bakhsh Urf Aalijah |
|
11 |
Mufassir-e-Azam Hadrat Mawlana Muhammah Ibrahim Raza Khan |
|
11 |
Hadrat Shaykh al-Quran Allamah Gulam Ali Asrafi Okarrwi |
|
12 |
Hadrat Sayyidatuna Raqaiyyah bint Rasoolullah (SallAllahu Alayhi wa Sallam) |
|
12 |
Hadrat Abu Usman Wa'ez |
|
12 |
Hadrat Khwaja Abdul Kareem Abu al-Qasim Khateeb |
|
12 |
Hadrat Sayyid Ilyas Maghrabi |
|
12 |
Hadrat Shaykh Zahid bin Ibrahim Gilani |
|
12 |
Hadrat Mawlana Shah Abdur Raheem Dehalwi |
|
12 |
Hadrat Shaykh Jageer Karday |
|
12 |
Hadrat Mawlana Fadl Haq Khayrabadi |
|
12 |
Hadrat Shah Abdul Lateef Bhittai |
|
13 |
Hadrat Abu Abdur Rahman Ahmad Nasa'i |
|
13 |
Hadrat Abu Ali Hassan Mashtawli |
|
13 |
Hadrat Abu Muhammad Abdullah Marta'ash |
|
13 |
Hadrat Abu al-Abbas Ahmad Khazari |
|
13 |
Hadrat Muhammad Gayaas Kirmani |
|
13 |
Hadrat Abdullah Shazili |
|
13 |
Hadrat Shaykh Bahauddin Akbar |
|
13 |
Hadrat Abu al-Fath Sanjari Muqayyid Jabaroot |
|
13 |
Hadrat Akhoon Shah Habibullah |
|
13 |
Hadrat Shah Wasiluddin |
|
13 |
Hadrat Muhaiyyi al-Din Urf Hafiz Jamalullah |
|
13 |
Hadrat Qutb al-Din Urf Haji Qurdat Allah |
|
13 |
Hadrat Shaykh Habib Peshawari |
|
13 |
Hadrat Peer Sayyid Sibgatullah Shaheed |
|
13 |
Hadrat Fadil Kabeer Muhammad Hassan Sanbhali |
|
14 |
Hadrat Maalik bin Deenar |
|
14 |
Hadrat Haji Mustafa Sirhindi |
|
14 |
Hadrat Zaheer al-Din Maakoor |
|
14 |
Qazi Abu al-Mahasin Yousuf bin Rafay' al-Asadi |
|
14 |
Hadrat Shah Abdul Kareem Manikpuri |
|
14 |
Hadrat Abu al-Faiz Shah Abdur Raheem Muhaddith Dehlawi |
|
15 |
Hadrat Data Gang Bakhsh Makhdoom Abu al-Hasan Ali Hujweri |
|
15 |
Hadrat Jalal al-Haq Qadi Khan Yousuf Nasihi |
|
15 |
Hadrat Akhoon Siddiqui Mustafaabadi |
|
15 |
Hadrat Shah Gulam Naseer al-Din Miya Kalay |
|
15 |
Hadrat Nijabat Ali Shah Lakhnawi |
|
15 |
Hadrat Sayyid Shah Ahmad Shams Aalam Raichoor |
|
15 |
Allamah Arshadul Qadri |
|
16 |
Hadrat Umar Ahmad Ali Maghrabi |
|
16 |
Hadrat Abu al-Hussain Bindaar Shirazi |
|
16 |
Hadrat Abu Mas'ood Maghribi |
|
16 |
Hadrat Sayyid Ahmad Kabeer |
|
16 |
Hadrat Abu Usman |
|
16 |
Hadrat Shaykh Baba Kamal Hayderi |
|
16 |
Hadrat Sayyidi Muhammad bin Yousuf Kirmani |
|
16 |
Hadrat Shah Qasim Munqasim al-Arwah |
|
16 |
Hadrat Sayyid Ahmad Akbarabadi |
|
16 |
Hadrat Wali Allah Hiqqi |
|
16 |
Ra'ees al-Qalam Allamah Arshadul Qadri |
|
16 |
Shaykh Badr al-Din Ja'fari Phulwari |
|
16 |
Hadrat Mawlana Sayyid Maghfur al-Qadri |
|
17 |
Hadrat Abu Ali Hussain |
|
17 |
Hadrat Shaykh Zakariya |
|
17 |
Hadrat Khwaja Baha al-Din Zakariya Suharwardi |
|
17 |
Hadrat Khwaja Hassan Balghari |
|
17 |
Hadrat Dewan Muhammad Taaj al-Din |
|
17 |
Hadrat Shaykh Nizam al-Din Narnoli |
|
17 |
Hadrat Akhoon Siddiqui Bajori |
|
17 |
Hadrat Hakeem Shah Ne'matullah |
|
17 |
Hadrat Allamah Mufti Gulam Raool Madraasi |
|
17 |
Hadrat Mawlana Hamid Ali Khan Rampuri |
|
17 |
Hadrat Shaykh Ali Ahmad Bherwi |
|
18 |
Hadrat Asadullah Rumi |
|
18 |
Shaykh Hameed Andalusi |
|
18 |
Hadrat Raji Hamid |
|
18 |
Hadrat Burhan al-Din Gareeb |
|
18 |
Hadrat Moosa Suharwardi |
|
18 |
Hadrat Meer Nau'man Akbarabadi |
|
19 |
Hadrat Abdul al-Awwal Iman al-Din Shami |
|
19 |
Abu al-Waleed Hisham Awwal |
|
19 |
Hadrat Shaykh Abu Muhammad Ruwaym Baghdadi |
|
19 |
Hadrat Sayyid Muhammad Shubayki Hasani |
|
19 |
Muhammad bin Abi al-Qasim al-Ma'roof Ibn Raseed al-Andalusi |
|
19 |
Hadrat Qazi Hameed al-Din Muhammad bin Ata Naghauri |
|
19 |
Hadrat Sayyid Baha al-Din Jonpuri |
|
19 |
Hadrat Khwaja Yahya Ilahabadi |
|
19 |
Hadrat Sayyid Ahmad Kalpawi |
|
19 |
Hadrat Shah Jamal Kalkattawi |
|
19 |
Hadrat Akhoon Darya Khan Jee Zabarjaddi |
|
19 |
Hadrat Akhoon Darya Khan Jee |
|
19 |
Hadrat Sayyid Aleemullah Chishti |
|
19 |
Hadrat Shaykh Aleemullah Shawrakh Abdaal |
|
19 |
Hadrat Sayyid Shah Ahmad Kalpi Shareef |
|
19 |
Hadrat Mawlana Sayyid Muhammad Umar Hanbali Hayderabadi |
|
20 |
Hadrat Sayyidi Yahya bin Bakayr |
|
20 |
Sahib Zadah Hakeem Arshad Ahmad Ameeri |
|
20 |
Peer Sayyid Ali Kalaan Sheerazi |
|
20 |
Makhdom Bilal bin Kabrawi Junaidi |
|
20 |
Hadrat Mawlana Sultan al-Din Mubin Jaypuri |
|
21 |
Hadrat Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ali Hakeem Tirmidhi |
|
21 |
Hadrat Shaykh Muhammad bin Yousuf Maghrabi |
|
21 |
Hadrat al-Hussain Muhammad Wazzaq |
|
21 |
Hadrat Shah Muhammad Aashiq Maah |
|
21 |
Hadrat Shams al-Din Ubaid Qadiri |
|
21 |
Hadrat Shaykh Abdur Raheem Kashmiri |
|
21 |
Hadrat Sayyid Aqeel |
|
21 |
Hadrat Muhammad Abdur Rahman Makki Sawar |
|
22 |
Hadrat Shaykh Salah al-Din Darwaish Chishti Sahar Wardi |
|
22 |
Hadrat Shaykh Muhammad Halawi bin Dawood Qarashi |
|
22 |
Hadrat Shaykh Abdullah Qurayshi |
|
22 |
Hadrat Shaykh Mahmood Rajan |
|
22 |
Hadrat Shah Gulaam Ali Dehlawi |
|
22 |
Hadrat Khwaja Muhammad Mahmood Urf Rajan bin Khwaja Alim al-Din |
|
22 |
Hadrat Sayyid Gulaam Hussain |
|
22 |
Hadrat Peer Sayyid Bhalan Shah Jeelani |
|
22 |
Hadrat Khwaja Shaykh Shams al-Din Siyal Shareef |
|
22 |
Hadrat Mawlana Sayyid Hassan Shah Raampuri |
|
23 |
Hadrat Abu Abdullah Khaqaan Sufi |
|
23 |
Hadrat Abu al-Qasim Ali Gargani |
|
23 |
Hadrat Shaykh Adeef al-Din Salman Tilmasani |
|
23 |
Hadrat Sayyid Jalal Ahmad Akbari |
|
23 |
Hadrat Shah Jalal al-Din |
|
23 |
Hadrat Makhdoom Shaykh Muhammad Meena Lakhnawi |
|
23 |
Hadrat Mawlana Abdul Razzaq Lakhnawi |
|
23 |
Hadrat Sayyidna Imam Baqir |
|
23 |
Hadrat Sultan Mahmood Gaznawi |
|
23 |
Hadrat Sayyidna Shah Meena Abu al-Ulai |
|
23 |
Hadrat Muhammad Saleem Qadri Shaheed |
|
24 |
Hadrat Shaykh Abdullah bin Salim |
|
24 |
Hadrat Khwaja Meer Dard Dehlawi |
|
24 |
Hadrat Mawlana Abu al-Baqa Abdul Hakeem Qadri Razzaqi |
|
24 |
Hadrat Allamah Abdul Hakeem Sialkoti |
|
24 |
Hadrat Khwaja Shams al-Din Siyalawi |
|
24 |
Hadrat Mahar Muhammad Sobah Naqshbandi Lahori |
|
24 |
Hadrat Mawlana Abdul Hakeem Farangi Mahali |
|
25 |
Hadrat Ahmad Khudrawiyah |
|
25 |
Hadrat Shaykh Ahmad Majd Shaybani Narnoli |
|
25 |
AlaHadrat Imam Ahl-e-Sunnat Imam Ahmad Rida Khan Baraylawi |
|
25 |
Hadrat Sayyid Qalandr Ali Suharwardi |
|
25 |
Mufti Shaykh Abdur Razzaq Qadri Lakhnawi |
|
25 |
Hadrat Allamah Imad al-Din Rifa'ee Surrati |
|
25 |
Hadrat Shah Abdul Razzaq Farangi Mahali |
|
26 |
Hadrat Meer Sayyid Hassan Qadri |
|
26 |
Hadrat Sayyid Alim al-Din Chishti |
|
26 |
Hadrat Sayyidna Hassan Baghdadi |
|
26 |
Hadart Shaykh Muhammad Ghous Kakorwi |
|
26 |
Hadrat Mufti Noor al-Haq Tonki |
|
26 |
Hadrat Mawlana Mufti Abdul Aziz Qadri Lakhnawi |
|
26 |
Hadrat Shah Muhammad Sulayman bin Dawood Phulwari |
|
26 |
Hadrat Mawlana Ameer Ali Ambethwi Shaheed |
|
27 |
Hadrat Abu Moosa Ra'ee |
|
27 |
Hadrat Hareeq Aswad Abdaal |
|
27 |
Hadrat Khwaja Abdul Wahid bin Zaid |
|
27 |
Hadrat Abu Imran Ra'ee |
|
27 |
Hadrat Ibrahim bin Isa Isfahani |
|
27 |
Hadrat Shareef al-Din Isa Qitaal bin Ghous-e-Azam |
|
27 |
Hadrat Abu Abdur Rahman Abdullah bin Ghous-al-Azam |
|
27 |
Hadrat Abdul Raheem Maghribi Ashiq-e-Nabi |
|
27 |
Sultan-e-Adil Hadrat Sultan Salah-al-Din Ayyubi |
|
27 |
Hadrat Shaykh Yahya Gujrati |
|
27 |
Hadrat Khwaja Yahya Madani Chishti |
|
27 |
Shareh Bukhari Hadrat Imam Badr al-Din Aeyni |
|
27 |
Hadrat Abdul Wahid Farid |
|
27 |
Hadrat Sharf al-Din |
|
27 |
Hadrat Shah Ballaaqi Muraadabadi |
|
27 |
Hadrat Muhammad Azeem Hassan Ukhra Barkhiya |
|
27 |
Hadrat Mawlana Shah Imdad Hussain Rampuri |
|
28 |
Hadrat Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba |
|
28 |
Hadrat Abu Bakr Muhammad Waffaq |
|
28 |
Hadrat Shaykh Ahmad San'ani |
|
28 |
Hadrat Shaykh Shams al-Haq Barray Haqqani |
|
28 |
Hadrat Khwaja Abu Yousuf Muhaiyyi al-Din Yahya Madani |
|
28 |
Hadrat Shah Ubaid al-Majeed |
|
28 |
Hadrat Shah Badr al-Din Urf Ballaqi Shah |
|
28 |
Hadrat Shah Muhammad Sulayman Phulwari |
|
28 |
Hadrat Shah Jahangir |
|
28 |
Khwaja Hafidh Abdul Kareem Naqshbandi Amratsari |
|
28 |
Hafidh Abdul Kareem Rawalpindi |
|
28 |
Hadrat Sadiq Shah Sahib Kanpuri |
|
28 |
Hadrat Sayyid Meer Muhammad Ahmad Siddiq Lakhnawi |
|
28 |
Hadrat Allamah Raham Ilahi Muzaffar Nagri (Teacher of Mufti-e-Azam) |
|
29 |
Hadrat Meer Muhammad Ya'qoob Gilani |
|
29 |
Hadrat al-Shah Imam Nawawi |
|
29 |
Hadrat Sayyidna Peer Mahr Ali Shah Gilani Golarrawi |
|
29 |
Hadrat Peer Fateh Muhammad |
|
29 |
Hadrat Imam-e-Rabbani Mujaddid Alf-e-Thani Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi |
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30 |
Hadrat Hafidh al-Hadith Imam Muhammad Hakim Nishapuri |
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Radi Allahu Ta'ala Anhum Ajma'een (Allah is well please with them All) |
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