the virtues of the first ten days of dhul hijjah
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Dhul Hijjah: The best ten days of the year

ByShaykh Haytham Tamim

The sacred months Dhul Qa’dah, Dhul Hijjah, and Muharram are the three consecutive prohibited months – meaning that no one was permitted to fight any battles during these months, or use their arms against anyone else, so that security was assured in this period and it gave safe passage to pilgrims traveling to Makkah to…

Dhul Hijjah and Hajj: An introduction
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Dhul Hijjah and Hajj: An introduction

ByShaykh Haytham Tamim

Allah Almighty mentioned in the Quran that Hajj is ‘a well-known month’, ashurhum malumaat: “Remember Allah (God) during the well-known days.” (2:197) There are three months which are considered holy, because they are months of hajj. It used to take 1-2 months to travel to reach Makkah, therefore hajjis had to leave for hajj long…