Naqshbandi Haqqani

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🌙 The new moon announcing the beginning of the month of Dhul Hijja was not seen here in Saudi Arabia on Monday July 20, 2020.

🕌 Wednesday July 22, 2020 will therefore be the 1st day of Dhul Hijja here in Arabia.

🕌 Wednesday July 29, 2020 will be the 1st day of Hajj.

🕌 Thursday July 30 the day of 'Arafat

🕌 Friday July 31, 2020 the day of 'Aid Al-Adha

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Shaykh al-Islām (Ibn Taymiyyaf, God be pleased with him, said to me, when I presented to him one objection (īrād) after another,

“Do not make your heart like a sponge for objections and doubts, such that it cannot ripen but with them, but rather like polished glass, so doubts may pass over its surface but do not stay within: its purity makes you see them, and its firmness allows you to repel them.”

Or something to this effect.

I do not know of any other advice that has helped me repel doubts like this one.”

Ibn Qayyim



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The best days of dhul hijj and what are some of the deeds recommended for one to do?

Alhamdulillah, the month of dhul hijj is a month of hajj and among it has the best ten days which is the best day if one does a deed is pleasant to Allah.

An hadith of ibn Abbas r.a saying,
I heard the messenger of Allah s.a.w saying,
There is no days that deeds are pleasant in the sight of Allah than the ten days of dhul hijj.
The sahaba asked even jihad in the path of Allah? The messenger of Allah s.a.w said,
Even jihad in the path of Allah except the one who goes to jihad with all his wealth and himself and did not return back. Saheeh Muslim.

So the sahaba used to do a lot of Ibadah as if it is their last days.
Some deeds like fasting which is recommended and not obligatory

Making night prayers and giving charity,
Making istighfar and also making dua.
Whatever deed one does is multiplied and better than jihad and Allah s.w.t by these ten days.

Allah says,
Al-Fajr 89:4

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا يَسْرِ

And [by] the night when it passes,

Apart from these days, we have then 9th day called yawmil arafah.

It is reported by imam tirmidhee,
The messenger of Allah s.a.w,
Anyone who is not present at arafah should fast that day for fasting on that day expiates the previous sin and the coming sin(two years).

It is sunnah to fast on that day and the best dua as it was reported by ibn Abbas that all prophets used to make that day is,
Laa ilaha illa Allah, lahul mulku walahul hamd yuhyii wa yumiit, wa huwa ala kulli shay'in qadeer.
This was the dua all prophets made on the day of arafah.

That day is a day of blessings and forgiveness that Allah s.w.t will come to the first heaven asking the angels, what do these people want from me. The angels will say it is your forgiveness and paradise. Then Allah s.w.t will ask the angels,
Have they seen my paradise?
They will say no and Allah will say bear witness that I have forgiven them all. Saheeh Muslim hadith of Abu hurayrah.

May Allah make us