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Forwarded from Abu Zakariyya Ahmed Al-Hudaydi

The Greatest Days of the Year Have Now Entered — Will You Rise, or Be Left Behind?

My dear brothers and sisters,

We have now entered the greatest days of the year — the ten days of Dhul-Ḥijjah — days that Allah Himself swore by in His Book: {By the dawn, and the ten nights} [Al-Fajr: 1-2]. The scholars of tafsīr, including Ibn ʿAbbās and the majority of the Salaf, affirmed: these ten nights are the first ten of Dhul-Ḥijjah.

Imām Ibn Rajab — may Allah have mercy on him — said in Fatḥ al-Bārī (9/16): “The supererogatory acts in the ten days of Dhul-Ḥijjah are more virtuous than those of the ten days of Ramaḍān. And likewise, the obligatory acts are multiplied more in these ten days than in any others.”

So pause, O servant of Allah, and reflect: how will you greet these days that your Lord has magnified? Days whose hours outweigh the rest of the year in reward, days in which every good deed is beloved to Allah, and nights in which the righteous did not sleep out of yearning to worship.

Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī said: “They used to venerate three tens: the last ten of Ramaḍān, the first ten of Dhul-Ḥijjah, and the first ten of Muḥarram.” [Laṭā’if al-Maʿārif, p. 35]

Ibn Rajab further explained that reward is multiplied due to three factors:

• The honour of the place — like Makkah and Madīnah.

• The honour of the time — such as Ramaḍān and the ten of Dhul-Ḥijjah.

• The honour of the doer — his taqwā and closeness to Allah. [Laṭā’if al-Maʿārif, p. 269]

And what an honourable time we are now in!

The days are for fasting and action. Ibn ʿUmar — may Allah be pleased with him — used to fast all ten days. Ibn Sirīn and Qatādah said: “Fasting each day of the ten equals a whole year.” [Laṭā’if al-Maʿārif, p. 459]

The nights are for standing and devotion. Saʿīd ibn Jubayr — the student of Ibn ʿAbbās — when the ten began, would exert himself in worship so intensely that he could hardly bear it. He said: “Do not extinguish your lamps during the ten nights — for worship pleases me.” [Laṭā’if al-Maʿārif, p. 460]

And the days are for dhikr. Allah said: {And mention the name of Allah on known days} [Al-Ḥajj: 28], which the scholars explain as the ten days of Dhul-Ḥijjah.

The Prophet ﷺ said: “There are no days greater in the sight of Allah, nor in which deeds are more beloved to Him, than these ten days. So increase in them your saying of Lā ilāha illa Allāh, Allahu Akbar, and al-Ḥamdu lillāh.” [Musnad Aḥmad, reported by Ibn ʿUmar]

So do not let these precious days slip through your fingers. Fast them if you can. Revive your nights with Qur’an and prayer. Fill your tongue with takbīr, tahmīd, and tahlīl. Guard your obligations — for every farḍ is now worth more. Give charity. Honour your parents. Pray in congregation. Guard your heart from sin.

For in these ten days, one step toward Allah is multiplied beyond measure — and whoever is blessed to succeed in them, it is a sign that Allah loves him and wants good for him.

O Allah, make these days a means of our elevation. Do not deprive us of their reward. Make us among those who venerate what You have magnified, and bless us with accepted deeds, purified hearts, and nearness to You in both this world and the next.

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