15 Shaban The significance of the month

15 Shaban The significance of the month

The significance of the month

15th Shaban, known as Shab e Barat in Urdu, which takes place in the 8th month of the Islamic calendar, is expected on the 28th March 202this year, just two weeks before the start of Ramadan.

Mid Shaban is celebrated in many countries across the world, including Pakistan, Lebanon, Turkey, Bangladesh and many others. In places like Iraq, children are given sweets as they walk around their neighbourhoods. In Indonesia, many Muslims engage in communal dhikr (invoking God’s names), while in Bosnia people give out halva, or sweets.

The middle of Shaban, despite there being a difference of opinion on its importance among scholars, still lies within a truly blessed month, a month that all Muslims regard as sanctified.

1. It’s the month in which your deeds are shown to Allah.

“It is a month in which the deeds are taken up to the Lord of the worlds, and I like that my deeds be taken up when I am fasting.” (Al-Nisai)

2. The month in which the Prophet loved to fast

“The most beloved of months for the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) to fast in was Shaban”. (Abu Dawud)

3. The Prophet would fast regularly in the month

"I never saw the Messenger of Allah fasting for an entire month except in Ramadan, and I never saw him fast more than he did in Shaban.” (Al-Bukhari)

4. Many people neglect this month, not realising its merit

“That is a month occurring between Rajab and Ramadan that many people neglect” (Al-Nisai)

“Whoever revives a Sunnah from my Sunnah and the people practice it, will have the same reward of those who practice it without their reward diminishing”(Sunan ibn Maajah)

5. Fasting in Shaban prepares you for Ramadan

Fasting during the month of Shaban can serve as your training for Ramadan, both spiritually and physically.

One of the more popular hadiths relating to the 15th of Shaban is:

Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) reported that, I could not find the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) on one of the nights, so I went out and found him in (the cemetery of) Baqī. The Messenger of Allāh (pbuh) said: “Did you fear that Allah and His Messenger will do injustice to you?” I said: O Messenger of Allah, I thought you might have gone to the house of some of the wives. The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) replied: “Verily, Allah descends on the night of the middle of Sha’bān to the first heaven and forgives the sins of the people, even if they were equivalent to the hairs of the goats of Banī Qalb. [Tirmidhi, Ahmad and Ibn Majah]

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