What are four famous months?

[ali jaffer]

no. are 4. name them plz.why they are known as famous months?
Regards

[Last Island]

These four sacred months are: Muharram, Rajab, Dhul Qadah and Dhul Hijja. Fighting during sacred months is a sin.

Allah (Almighty and Glorious is He) has told us:

"The number of months with Allah has been twelve months by Allah's ordinance since the day He created the heavens and the earth. Of these four are known as sacred; (9:36)

The occasion of the revelation of this verse was as follows:

The believers had traveled from Madina to meet the people of Makkah, before that city was conquered by Allah's Messenger, and they said: "We are afraid that the unbelievers of Makkah may engage us in combat during a sacred month [shahr haram]." Allah therefore sent down the revelation:

"The number of months with Allah has been twelve months by Allah's ordinance [They were already inscribed] in the Book of Allah - i.e. on the Well-Kept Tablet (al-Lawh al-Mahfuz)] - since the day He created the heavens and the earth; Of these four are known as sacred..."

The names of the four months referred to as sacred are: Rajab, Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l-Hijja and Muharram. One of these stands in isolation, namely, Rajab, while the other three occur in consecutive sequence [in the Islamic calendar]. It was also called Rajab of Mudhar, because the tribe of Mudhar used to adhere to its sacredness, while another tribe by the name of Rabee’ah Ibn Nizaar used to change sacredness of Rajab to Ramadhaan. In order to lift this confusion the Prophet PBUH said: “Rajab, which comes between Jumaadaa and Sah’baan”.

In the above mentioned verse, Allah informs us that since He created the Heavens and earth, and created days and nights, and made the sun and the moon, each float in an orbit, as a result of which the darkness of nights and the light of days occur. It was from that time that Allah had set the months to be twelve, and He, Almighty, informed us that He, Almighty, designated four of them to be sacred.

We must respect the sanctity of these sacred months, by adhering to the commandments of Allah, and rejecting that which the people of the pre-Islamic period were upon, like delaying the restrictions of these months or changing their sequence. It is for this reason that the Prophet PBUH said in his farewell pilgrimage:

“O People! Time has gone back to how it was at the time Allaah created the Heavens and the Earth. A year has twelve months, four of which are sacred, three consecutive, Thul-Qi’dah, Thul-Hijjah, Muharram, and Rajab, which comes between Jumaadaa and Sha’baan.” [Al-Bukhaari]

The verse is informing us that the ruling of these months will remain (names, sequence and sacredness), and the changes made by the disbelievers to the sequence would have no effect. Moreover, whatever the disbelievers had changed could not change what Allah had decreed.

Allah Says in the same verse (which means): “…that is the right religion” meaning, this Sharee’ah and obedience therein, is the right and straight path. Then Allah continues Saying that (which means): “Do not wrong yourselves therein”[Quran 9: 36] which is referring to all months of the year but the sacred months hold a special position.

Do not wrong (oppress) yourselves by fighting and committing sins, because when Allah honors something for one reason, it becomes that much honored, but when He honors for two or more reasons, then sacredness becomes more, and punishment for disobedience is multiplied accordingly.

[يَـأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لاَ تُحِلُّواْ شَعَآئِرَ اللَّهِ وَلاَ الشَّهْرَ الْحَرَامَ]

O you who believe! Violate not the sanctity of the symbols of Allah, nor of the sacred month. [5:2]


[الشَّهْرُ الْحَرَامُ بِالشَّهْرِ الْحَرَامِ وَالْحُرُمَـتُ قِصَاصٌ فَمَنِ اعْتَدَى عَلَيْكُمْ فَاعْتَدُواْ عَلَيْهِ بِمِثْلِ مَا اعْتَدَى عَلَيْكُمْ]

The Sacred Month is for the Sacred Month, and for the prohibited things, there is the law of equality (Qisas). Then whoever transgresses the prohibition against you, you transgress likewise against him [2:194]


[فَإِذَا انسَلَخَ الأَشْهُرُ الْحُرُمُ فَاقْتُلُواْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ]

Then when the Sacred Months have passed, kill the idolators... [9:5].


[وَقَاتِلُواْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ كَآفَّةً كَمَا يُقَـتِلُونَكُمْ كَآفَّةً]

And fight against the idolators collectively as they fight against you collectively. (It includes permission for the believers to fight the idolators in the Sacred Month, if the idolators initiate hostilities therein.)

Allah said in other Ayat,

[وَلاَ تُقَـتِلُوهُمْ عِندَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ حَتَّى يُقَـتِلُوكُمْ فِيهِ فَإِن قَـتَلُوكُمْ فَاقْتُلُوهُمْ]

And fight not with them at Al-Masjid Al-Haram, unless they (first) fight you there. But if they attack you, then kill them. [2:191].

As for the Messenger of Allah laying siege to At-Ta'if until the Sacred Month started, it was a continuation of the battle against Hawazin and their allies from Thaqif. They started the fighting and gathered their men for the purpose of conducting war. The Messenger of Allah marched to meet them and when they took refuge in At-Ta'if, the Prophet laid siege to them so that they descend from their forts, but they inflicted casualties on Muslims. The siege continued for about forty days, during which a Sacred Month began, and the siege continued for several days in that month. The Messenger broke the siege and went back (to Makkah). So fighting that carries over into it [the Sacred Month] is not the same as initiating warfare during it.

Allah knows best.