Safar al-Muzaffar... The Second Month of Islamic Calendar [English]

Safar al-Muzaffar... The Second Month of Islamic Calendar [English]

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 ::.. Date URS Sharif (Passing Of) 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 30 Hadrat Hafidh al-Hadith Imam Muhammad Hakim Nishapuri Radi Allahu Ta'ala Anhum Ajma'een (Allah is well please with them All)