considered to be very unlucky. Let’s listen to the prevailing misconceptions about this month:

‘Allamah Maulana Mufti Muhammad Amjad ‘Ali A’zami رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has said: People consider the month of Safar to be unlucky. They do not have marriages in it and nor do they have Rukhsati of their daughters. Further, they also avoid many other such types of acts including journey, especially the first 13 days of the month of Safar are considered to be extremely unlucky. These days are also called ‘Tayra Tayzee’. All these are related to ignorance. It is stated in a blessed Hadees: Safar is not anything.

(Sahih Bukhari, vol. 4, pp. 36, Hadees 5757)

That is, people’s act of considering it unlucky is wrong. Similarly, many people consider the month of Zee-Qa’dah to be bad and call it the month of emptiness. It is wrong too. The dates such as 3, 13, 23, 8, 18, 28 are also considered to be unlucky every month, which is also a nonsense. The last Wednesday of the month of Safar is celebrated a lot in India. People close their business, visit famous and interesting places for fun and go hunting. Pooris are cooked and people take bath and rejoice a lot. They say that the Holy Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم had bath (Ghusl) (after his recovery) on this day and went sightseeing out of Madinah.

All these are untrue, instead the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم was seriously ill in these days. These things are false. Some people say that calamities befall on this day and they talk about different types of other things. All are without any evidence. Rather the blessed saying stated in a Hadees: ‘لَاصَفَرَ’ i.e. ‘Safar is not anything’^[1] rejects all such nonsense. (Bahar-e-Shari’at, vol. 3, pp. 659)

Madani Dars, one of the 12 Madani activities

Dear Islamic brothers! It has become obvious that the misconceptions about Safar-ul-Muzaffar amongst people have nothing to do with reality, but rather it is resulted from only superstitious thoughts and lack of Islamic knowledge. Therefore as a Muslim, we should keep away from such superstitious thoughts.