The month of Muharram is the month of sadness for the Ahlul-Bayt (peace be upon them) and their followers. In this respect, Imam al-Rida (peace be upon him) is reported to have said, “With the beginning of Muharram, my father (peace be upon him) would never smile at all. He would be dominated by depression for ten days. The tenth of this month would be the day of his misfortune, sadness, and weeping. He used to say that on this day Imam Hussain (peace be upon him) was slain.”
At the advent of Muharram,we beseech Imam Mahdi (ajtfs) to increase the size of our crucible and increase our ability to grieve and offer condolences,to Ahlulbayt(as) as commanded by Quran in 42:23.
"The ten days of Muharram is a time when a special sustenance is prepared and distributed. Whether we get any portion of it (or how much) depends on how closely we orbit around Imam Hussein(as). Let us beseech him to choose us for his service."-Sayed Mahdi Modarresi:
"Looking forward to Muharram because shedding tears of sorrow over the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (a) does something to your heart that just can’t be put into words.
It’s something that you just have to experience for yourself to understand."-Shaikh Azhar Nasser: PDFMuharram 1-Iqbal pdfLinks
Fasting on first Muharram is highly recommended to seek fulfillment of needs Short Dua upon seeing the crescent of the moon in Al-Mukhtasar min al-Muntakhab.
Exalt the Sublime God and say: "God is the Great! God is the Great! God is the Great!
God is my Lord and your Lord! God is the Lord of the worlds.
There are no Gods but God. Praise be to God, Who created me, created you, destined Your Path and established you as a sign for the people of the world. God takes pride in you near the angels.
O' my God!Please let this month be a period of peace, faith, safety and total submission to Your will .
Please establish us firmly in Your obedience and make us walk apace swiftly to that which You like and approve.
O' my God! Please bless us in this month. And please bless us with its generous goodness and abundance, its blessedness, assistance and salvation. and safeguard us from any evil, misfortune and mischief during this month.
By Your Mercy! O' the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful."
Say, “O' my God! You are Allah! There is no God but You! I ask You through Yourself, Your Words, all Your Beautiful Names, Your Prophets, Your Messengers, Your Guardians, Your nearby-stationed angels and all Your Servants in the ranks of the righteous.
O' God! O' Beneficent to the believers! Please do not deprive me of Your Mercy which encompasses all things.
O' God! O' Compassionate to the believers! O' the One! O' the Living! O' the First! O' the Last! O' Outward! O' Inward! O' King! O' Rich! O' the All-Encompassing! O' the All-Hearing, O' the All-Knowing! O' the Sublime! O' Witness! O' the All-Near! O' the Responder! The Praiseworthy! O' the Most Glorious One! O' Exalted in Might! O' Irresistible! O' Creator! O' the Kind! O' He who bestows bounties! O' the Worshipped! O' the Eternal! O' the Enduring! O' the Living! O' the Self-Subsisting! O' the One! O' the Odd O' the One! O' Eternal, Absolute! O' Resurrector! O' Inheritor! O' the All-Hearing, O' the All-Knowing! O' Knower of subtleties! O' the All Aware! O' Munificent! O' the Noble! O' the Able! O' The Affluent! O' the Subduer! O' the Compassionate! O' the Merciful! O' the Constrictor! O' the Expander! O' the Forbearing! O' the All-Generous! O' Pardoner! O' the Compassionate! O' the All-Forgiving!
Here I am right in front of You and under Your Reign! I am inclined towards you in spite of my many wrong-doings and sins.
Were it not due to Your Mercy, Your Favor and Your Kindness I would have been of the ruined ones.
O' He who is aware of my poverty.
Please look at me with favor and extend Your Mercy upon me.
O' my God! Indeed I ask You by the totality of Your Names – those I know and those I do not know - and by Your Right over Your creatures!
I ask You by Your having existed forever before, being Eternal, Your Abode, Your being Everlasting, Your Magnificence, Your Omnipotence, Your Grandeur, Your Loftiness and Your Will!
I ask You to bestow Your Blessings on Muhammad and his Progeny(as) have Mercy on me, and sanctify me by Your Benevolence and Your Pleasure.
I ask You to protect me from all which You admonished against and help me succeed in doing what pleases You with me, and make me do whatever You have ordered me to do and pleases You.
O' my God! My heart is filled with the tranquility of Your Glory, and the glory of Your Grandeur and Magnificence.
O' the Best of the Owners! Assist me against all Your enemies and mine.
O' the best Sustainer of our needs.
O' He who changes the periods.
O' He who changes the seasons.
O' He who merges the night into the day, and merges the day into the night.
O' He who runs the governments, the affairs and the routine things.
You are the Eternal One who have existed forever and You are the Owner who shall exist forever.
Glory be to You! Praise belongs to You accompanied by Your Praise and Power.
Praise that is Perpetual with Your Perpetuity, and is illuminated by Your Magnificence.
You are my God! You are the Guardian of those who praise! You are the Master of those who are grateful.
O' He who gives without any measure.
O' He whose blessings cannot be repaid.
And He who cannot be thanked enough and Whose Dominion does not diminish.
Please join my days to Your Days having forgiven me and having made my flesh, blood, and all that You have bestowed upon me like my creation, life, strength and power immune from the Fire.
O' the Protector of those seeking Your protection.
O' the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
“In the name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
I rely upon Him who is Everlasting and shall not perish! “Praise be to God!, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds; Most Compassionate, Most Merciful; Master of the Day of Judgment.
You do we worship, and Your aid we seek-1:2-5.
O‟ He Whose days cannot be counted.
I seek Your Help for myself, my religion, my hearing, my sight, my body, all my organs, my parents, family, wealth and children, all under my custody, and others under my rein against all fears, dangers of all Your Creatures whether on the land or at sea.
God is the Great! God is the Great! He is Honorable! He is Exalted! He fends off what I fear and threatens me.
Anyone seeking God‟s Protection is honored.
Glorious and sublime is God's Praise.
And there is no God but God! O' my God! Please establish me in a place near Yourself that cannot be penetrated and under Your own support that cannot be violated or debased and Under Your Covenant that cannot be violated.
Please put me in Your Fence that cannot be penetrated.
Anyone seeking protection from God is protected.
There is no Change or Power except with God the Sublime, the Supreme.
O' my God! O' He who is needless of all things while nothing is needless of Him! O' He who nothing suffices like He does! Please take care of me such that nothing hurts me being with You.
Please remove grief and sadness from me.
There is no Change or Power except with God - the Sublime, the Supreme.
O' God! O' the All-Generous.
O' my God! I shall fend off my enemies and all who wish me harm by Your assistance.
I take refuge in You from their evil! I seek Your help against them! Please help me against their evil with whatever You wish, however You wish, wherever You wish, and whenever You wish.
“… but Allah will suffice thee as against them, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.”2:137.
We will certainly strengthen thy arm through thy brother, and invest you both with authority, so they shall not be able to touch you: with Our Sign shall ye triumph,- you two as well as those who follow you.28:35.
"… We are Messengers from thy Lord! By no means shall they reach thee!-11:81.
"Fear not: for I am with you: I hear and see (everything).-20:46
"I seek refuge from thee to ((Allah)) Most Gracious: (come not near) if thou dost fear Allah.19:18
"Be ye driven into it (with ignominy)! And speak ye not to Me!-23:108
I made it to the morning and the evening by God‟s Honor! There is none like Him.36:8-9
I take refuge in God‟s Perfect Words all of which are Reserved.
I take refuge in God‟s Good Names in which refuge is taken.
I take refuge in the Lord of Moses and Aaron! The Lord of Jesus and Abraham who was loyal.
I take refuge from the evils of rebels from the genies or men, from the evils of all the followers of Satan, from the evils of all oppressors!
I take the ears of all rebels, oppressors, tyrants, enemies and jealous ones from the genies and men off of me, my children, wife and property and all under my custody.
I take the ears, the eyes, the power, the hands, the feet, the tongue, the hair, the skin and all their parts by God‟s Ear and took their eyes by God‟s Eyes, and I took their strength by God‟s Power and God‟s Plots.
They no longer have any authority over me, and have no way to influence me by the cover of God and the Prophet (as) that protected them from the wrath of the Pharaohs of their time.
God protected them with Gabriel on the right, Michael on the left, and Muhammad (as) between you and us.
God the Almighty is Superior to you, and He circumvents you from the front and the back.
He controls you, your hearing, your sight, your heart, your tongues, your strength, your hands, and your feet, and He has made a barrier between your evils and us.
“We have put yokes round their necks right up to their chins, so that their heads are forced up (and they cannot see).
And We have put a bar in front of them and a bar behind them, and further, We have covered them up; so that they cannot see.
”May their faces turn ugly and they become deaf ,dumb and blind! "Ta-Ha" and "Ha-Mim" - They cannot see.
O' my God! O' He whose coverage does not collapse.
O' He whose Eyes do not fall asleep! Please give me coverage with Your cover that does not collapse and protect me from all calamities by Your Eyes which do not fall asleep.
God is sufficient for me over all His creatures.
God – who is needless of all things but nothing is needless of Him – is sufficient for me.
The Creator is sufficient for me instead of the creatures.
The Provider is sufficient for me instead of those who are provided for.
The Lord is sufficient for me instead of those who have lords.
The One who Favors is sufficient for me rather than those who receive favors.
God the Near the Fulfiller is sufficient for me.
God is sufficient for me instead of everyone else.
God is sufficient for me.
He is One. There are no partners for Him.
God is sufficient for me. He is enough.
God hears the prayer of the supplicant.
There is no destination beyond God.
There is no place to run away to from God! And there is no running away from Him! “ (Allah) sufficeth me: there is no God but He: On Him is my trust,- He the Lord of the Throne (of Glory) Supreme!”9:129
O' my God! Please establish me in a place near Yourself that cannot be penetrated.
Place me under Your own Support that cannot be violated and under Your Covenant that cannot be violated.
And protect me by Your Eyes which do not fall asleep.
Provide me with Your Support that does not collapse! And admit me into Your Might that cannot be oppressed.
O' Compassionate! Have mercy on me by Your Mercy.
O' God! Please do not destroy me.
And You are my hope O' Compassionate O' Merciful! “My (own) affair I commit to God!.
For Allah (ever) watches over His Servants.” 40:44
There is no change nor any strength except by God – the Sublime, the Supreme.
What God wills happens.
I take refuge in God‟s Honor, the Glory of His Face, the portion of God‟s Knowledge kept of the Tablet, and what is veiled from the light of the Splendor of God.
O' my God! I am weak, with a large family, and poor who is seeking the fulfillment of his needs by You.
O' my God! I, therefore, ask You, through Your Name - the Only! The One! the Absolute! the Eternal, Absolute! The Great! The Most Exalted! You have filled the pillars of all things with protection and knowledge.
I ask You to bestow Your Blessing on Muhammad and his Progeny(as) and establish this first day, the beginning of this month and the beginning of this year for my improvement, the middle of this day, the middle day of this month and the middle day of this year as my prosperity and the end of this day, the end of this month and the end of this year as my success.
I return to You as You are the Ever-Relenting, the Merciful!
O' My God! Please show me the blessedness of this month and this year plus its goodness and its blessings.
Please bless me with the best thereof and remove all its evil from me.
Please bless me with physical health, peace, well-being, strength, relief, safety, virtuousness, prosperity, gentleness and security during it.
Please grant me success in doing what would please You with me during it.
Please let me reach what I hope for, ease my troubles during it, and make it easy for me to attain my aspirations.
Let me quickly get what I want.
Please relieve my sorrow and remove my troubles and have my debts repaid during it.
Please grant me victory over my enemies and those who envy me during it.
Help me regarding their affairs.
By Your Mercy! O' the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
“…There is no God but You: glory to You: I was indeed wrong!” 40:44 And may God bestow blessings on the Prophet Muhammad and his Progeny(as).
And may His peace be on them plentifully.
O' my God! O' my Lord! O' my Master! O' my Guardian! Please save me from destruction.
Please remove sins from me and keep me safe from what is not proper and is not good for me.
O' my God! Please do not let any sins left for me that You do not forgive, no grief that You do not alleviate, no faults that You do not cover, no sustenance that You do not expand, no hardship that You do not ease, no evils that You do not remove, no fear that You do not provide security from, no fright that You do not calm, no ailment that You do not heal, no need that You do not provide for with ease and well-being for me provided by You.
O' my God! I did wrong, but You did good! I made mistakes, but You favored me.
This was all due to my trust in Your Forgiveness and my hoping for Your Mercy.
O' my God! I ask You for the sake of this prayer, and by the fact of this hope to remove calamities from me and show me a way out of them and a relief by Your Power and Nobility.
O' my God! You are well aware of our sins.
Please forgive them.
You are well aware of our affairs.
Please ease them.
You are well aware of our debts.
Please redeem them.
You are well aware of our needs.
Please fulfill them by Your Power and Nobility as You have power over all things.
“If there were a Qur'an with which mountains were moved, or the earth were cloven asunder, or the dead were made to speak, (this would be the one!) But, truly, the command is with Allah in all things!-13:31.
There is no change nor any strength except by God – the Sublime, the Supreme.
What God wills happens.
“In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful” to myself, my religion, my hearing, my sight and all my body parts and all that the earth carries of me.
“In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful” to my parents from the Fire.
“In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful” to my family, wealth and children.
“In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful” to all who assist me in performing His orders.
“In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful” for all things granted to me by my Lord “In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful” I have started this month and this tradition while I have placed my trust in God.
There is no change nor any strength except by God – the Sublime, the Supreme! What God wills happens.
God is Great! Plenty of praise be to God! Glory be to God in the morning and the evening.
“Glory be to Your Lord, the Lord of Honour and Power! (He is free) from what they ascribe (to Him)! And Peace on the apostles! And Praise to God!, the Lord and Cherisher of the Worlds.37:180-182
“So (give) glory to God!, when ye reach eventide and when ye rise in the morning; Yea, to Him be praise, in the heavens and on earth; and in the late afternoon and when the day begins to decline.
It is He Who brings out the living from the dead, and brings out the dead from the living, and Who gives life to the earth after it is dead: and thus shall ye be brought out (from the dead)”30:17-19 .
“In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
O' my God! I take refuge in You from the evils of this day, the evil of this month, the evils of this year and the evils of what comes later!
I take refuge in You from the evils of my enemies who may go to extremes or rebel against me! I say the following for me from the front of me, from the back of me, from my right side and from my left side, from above me and from below me: “In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
Say: He is Allah, the One and Only Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him.112:1-4
”He circumvents me, my wealth, my parents, children, spouse and all who assist me in performing His Decrees.
He encompasses everything that is mine, and everything that is with me.
I rely upon Him who is the Everlasting and shall not perish! I seek protection in God‟s most trustworthy strong-hold that never breaks.
God is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
O' my God! Please put well-being and expansion of sustenance for me during this year and after it out of your own determination.
O' my God! Please provide sufficient means for my worldly and afterlife affairs and protect me from making mistakes.
O' God! Please bless me with the best of this world and the Hereafter.
“Say: Who can keep you safe by night and by day from the beasts, thieves, snakes, scorpions, genies, men, wild animals, birds, and vermins during the day and at night?
God says, “We have put yokes round their necks right up to their chins, so that their heads are forced up (and they cannot see).
And We have put a bar in front of them and a bar behind them, and further, We have covered them up; so that they cannot see.”36:8-9.
O' my God! I take refuge in the totality of Your Perfect Words and strong verses from Your Wrath, and from the evils of Your Chastisement, the evils of Your Servants and the suggestions of the Evil Ones.
I take refuge in You O' my Lord! Lest they should come near me.
There is no change nor any strength except by God – the Sublime, the Supreme.
What God wills happens.
O' my God! I take refuge in Your Knowledge, and seek help from You by Your Power and ask You through Your supreme Bounties as indeed You have knowledge and can destine, but I can not destine.
In Your hand is the key to all good.
And You are the Knower of all that is hidden.
O' my God! If what I ask or is asked for me is good for my religion, my life and the end of my affairs, please grant it to me with ease and bless it for me and remove its troubles from me during it.
But if something else is good for me, please give me what is best for my body and the well-being in this world and the Hereafter.
Please direct me towards what is good no matter where I am and in which direction I go by Your Mercy.
O' my God! Please honor me as You honor those who say these prayers.
I insert the following before my forgetting and rush: “In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
There is no change nor any strength except by God –the Sublime, the Supreme and whatever God wills happens.
” O' my God! Your Will that is dominant decides what happens and what does not happen regarding anything I said or any bets I made.
O' my God! Please do not question me regarding anything I said or any bets I made today, in this month or this year.
Please make an exception and give me a waiver.
Please do not question me regarding my evil deeds and do not impose harsh works on me.
O' my God! Please wish bad for whoever wishes me bad on this day, month or year and plot against whoever plots against me.
Please fend me off of those who threaten me and put out the fire of those who try to burn me.
O' my God! Please safeguard me against the plots of the plotters, blind the magicians, protect me from this with tranquility, bless me with Your impregnable protective Covering, and equip me with the piety with which You equipped the pious people.
O' my God! Please let my supplications for You be sincere.
Let me ask for what is near You and do not let me ask anyone but You.
O' my God! O' Lord! Please save me from sicknesses, anxieties, sorrow, grief, diseases and ailments.
Please remove evil and corruption from me, misery and misfortune, troubles and pains,
since You hear prayers, You are Near and You are the Fulfiller! O' God! Please melt my enemies, and all the affairs that have become hard for me as You melted the iron for David (as)!
O' my God! Please debase them for me as You debased the quadrupeds for Adam (as).
O' my God! Please bring them under my total control as You brought the birds under the control of Solomon (as).
O' my God! Please induce love from Yourself on me just as You induced it on Moses (as) – the son of Imran (as).
Please improve my position, hearing, sight and strength, and return Your Blessings to me.
Grant my requests, my desires and improve my temper.
Make me such that my enemies fear my awesomeness and induce kindness, mercy and fear in the hearts of my enemies and subdue them to me with Your Power and Nobility.
O' my God! O' He who sufficed for Moses (as) regarding Pharaoh.
O' He who sufficed for Muhammad (as) regarding the parties.
O' He who sufficed for Abraham (as) regarding Nimrod‟s fire.
Please bestow Your Blessings on Muhammad and his Progeny(as).
O' my God! Please safeguard me from all that are frightening and dangerous by Your Mercy.
O' Compassionate! O' Merciful! O' my God! O‟ He who guides the lost ones! O' He who dispels sorrow from the grief-stricken.
O' He who relieves the grief of those who grieve and repays the debt of those who are in debt.
O' Lord of the Worlds! Please remove my sorrow, worries and grief.
Please repay my debt and that of all who are in debt.
Grant my requests and desires.
Please provide a good start and a good ending for me by Your own Means.
O' my God! O' my hope, O' my supporter! Please do not cut off my hopes from You.
Please improve my affairs and open the ways of access to my sustenance through means I count on and means I do not count on: And through means I know about and means I do not know about, through means I hope for and means I do not hope for.
O' God! Please bless me with health, well-being and blessings in all which You provide for me.
Please choose good along with well-being in all the affairs that you bless me with.
Be a guardian, a protector, and a helper for me, and let me understand the proof! O' my God! If there is any male or female from Your Creatures whom I have oppressed whether concerning his/her wealth, hearing, sight or strength and cannot now recompense him/her, or ask him/her to forgive me.
Then O' my God! I ask You to make him/her pleased with me as You will! Then grant me mercy from Your own Presence - O' Grantor of gifts and good! O' my God! Please do not take me out of this world without a good afterlife for me and with no sins left that You have not forgiven due to Your Benevolence.
By Your Mercy! O' the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
O' my God! Indeed I ask You for stability in my affairs, and perseverance in growth.
O' Lord! And O' my God! I ask You to grant me the opportunity to thank You for Your Blessings
30 Supplications and Deeds for the Whole Year
and to worship You in the best possible form.
And O' my God! I ask You for a peaceful heart, an honest tongue, beneficial certitude, ample and quick sustenance, mercy with which I may attain the honor of Your Benevolence in this world and the Hereafter.
O' the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful! O' my God! I ask You for well-being followed by well being, perfect well-being sufficient for this world and the Hereafter.
O' my God! O' my Master! O' my Guardian! I ask You to be my reliance, support, trust and savings and to not disappoint my hopes.
Do not disappoint my aspirations.
And please do not cut off my hopes, do not let me suffer from hard calamities, do not let me have a bad destiny, and do not subject me to my enemy‟s ridicule.
O' my God! Please be pleased with me by Your Pleasure.
And safeguard me from all Your Calamities.
O' my God! I ask You – O' God! O' Greatest of all the great ones! O' He who has no partners or associates! O' the Creator of the sun and the bright moon.
O' He who provides for small children.
O' the One who enriches the poverty-stricken, poor.
O' Helper of troubled needy! O' He who mends broken bones! O' He who breaks every haughty oppressor! O' He who revives my bones when they have turned into dust! O' He for whom there is no equal or comparable one! O' my God! I ask You to Bestow Blessings upon Muhammad and His Progeny (as).
And O' my God! I ask You by all with which I call You using these supplications, by all Your Names, by the juncture of the Might of Your Throne, by the ultimate Mercy from Your Book, by Your Sublime Majesty, and I ask You by You as nothing is more exalted than You are - that You forgive us and have mercy upon us verily we are in need of Your Mercy.
O' the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful! O' my God! Please forgive the believing men and women, the Muslim men and women whether dead or alive.
Please unite us with them in good.
O' my God! Please suffice for me the affairs that no one but You can suffice and fulfill all my needs.
Please improve my affairs and ease all that I like with ease and well-being for me provided by You.
O' the Most Compassionate, Most Merciful! There is no change nor any strength except by God – the Sublime, the Supreme.
What God wills happens.
And may God bestow blessings on the Prophet Muhammad and his Progeny (as) - and plenty of peace.
What God wills happens.
What God wills - There is no change nor any strength save in God.
What God wills - I rely upon God. What God wills – I entrust my affairs to God.
What God wills - God is sufficient for me. He is enough.
Sayyid Ibn Tawus, in Iqbal al-A`mal, has mentioned these salats should be offered at this night:
First: A one hundred unit prayer with Surahs al-Fatihah and al-Tawhid recited once in each unit.
Second: A two unit prayer at the first of which Surahs al-Fatiha and al-An`am (No. 6) are recited and at the second unit Surahs al-Fatiha and Yasin (No. 36).
Third: A two unit prayer in each of which Surah al-Fatiha is recited once and Surah al-Tawhid is repeated eleven times.
The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) is reported to have said that whoever offers this prayer at this night and observes fasting the next day, which is the first day in the new year, the new year will be wholly good for him, and he will be saved throughout the year, and if he dies, he will be allowed Paradise.
Hadith on Recommendation of Fasting on first Muharram
Rāyyan bin Shabeeb (the maternal uncle of Mo'tasim), says that I went to meet Imām Ali ar Rezā (a.s.) on the First day of the month of Muharram
Imām Alī ibn Mūsā al-Rezā (A.S.) asked:"“O son of Shabeeb! Are you in the state of fasting today”?
I (Rāyyan bin Shabeeb) replied in the negative. Imām (a.s.) continued,“This is the day when Prophet Zakariyyah (a.s.) prayed to his Lord thus:“Lord grant me from unto Thee a good offspring, Verily Thou art the Hearer of Prayers” (Surah al-Ali Imran, 3:38).
Then Allāh (s.w.t.) accepted his Prayers and commanded His Angels to go and give him glad tidings regarding the birth of his son Prophet Yahyā (a.s.). The Angels came and called out to him while he was engaged in Prayers in the niche. Hence the one who fasts on this day and asks for his desires from Allāh, his Prayer will be answered as was of Zakariyāh.”
[References: Nafasul Mahmum, Chapter 3, Section 2, Tradition 1]
Sayyid Ibn Tawus has mentioned the merits of observing fasting during the whole month of Muharram adding that such a deed protects against committing any sin.
Take a Ghusl /bath,
with the intention(Niyat) of "Rija" for cure/protection from illness .Recite the following Dua on the water to be used:- Subh'anallahi maal-al mizaan Subh'anallahi muntahal h'ilm
Glory be to Allah the Supreme balance ,Glory be to Allah the Ultimate in gentleness,
Subh'anallahi mublaghar riz'aa Subhanallahi zinatal a'rsh
Glory be to Allah the Goal of devotedness, Glory be to Allah the splendor of the Arsh Salaah for the New Month
Imam Ridha (peace be upon him) is reported to have said that the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), on the first of Muharram, used to offer a two unit prayer. When he finished, he would raise his hands towards the heavens and repeat the following dua three times:
wa hab lana min ladunka rahmatan innaka anta alwahhabu
and grant us mercy from You; surely, You are the most liberal Giver.
Third Muharram: On this day, Prophet Joseph was freed from his prison. Hence, if one observes fasting on this day, Almighty Allah will make easy any difficulty he may face and will relieve any trouble that may face him. According to a Hadith reported from the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him and his family), Almighty Allah will respond to the prayer of him who observes fasting on this day.
At the advent of Muharram,we beseech Imam Mahdi (ajtfs) to increase the size of our crucible and increase our ability to grieve and offer condolences,to Ahlulbayt(as) as commanded by Quran in 42:23.
"The ten days of Muharram is a time when a special sustenance is prepared and distributed. Whether we get any portion of it (or how much) depends on how closely we orbit around Imam Hussein(as). Let us beseech him to choose us for his service."-Sayed Mahdi Modarresi:
"Looking forward to Muharram because shedding tears of sorrow over the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (a) does something to your heart that just can’t be put into words.
It’s something that you just have to experience for yourself to understand."-Shaikh Azhar Nasser: PDFMuharram 1-Iqbal pdfLinks