Dear Islamic sisters! Did you hear how beloved the month of Safar-ul-Muzaffar is and of the number of great events that took place in this blessed month. Ponder for a moment! If such significant events took place in this blessed month, then how can it possibly be ill-fated. But with great regret, due to a lack of Islamic knowledge and bad company, there is a group of people who consider this blessed month to be a month in which difficulties and calamities descend; in particular, there are many well-known unislamic views regarding its first thirteen days.

Incorrect views regarding the month of Safar

Considering Safar to be a month in which calamities descend, in the initial days of this month, people boil chickpeas or wheat and give it away as Niyaz. Also, Surah Muzzammil is recited a specific number of times. people go to the beach and make balls of flour and then feed them to the fish etc. The reasoning of people for carrying out all of these actions is that they will be freed of all the calamities that descend in the month of Safar. Remember! Difficulties and trials are from Allah Almighty, there is no specific day or month that is singled out for them; the one who is destined to be afflicted with trials will be afflicted. Regardless of whether it is the month of Safar or any other month of the year. It should be noted that reciting the Quran and performing Niyaz, Fatihah is a Mustahab (recommended) action, and it can be carried out on any day of the year with lawful sustenance. However, merely based on conjecture, people think that if they do not perform Fatihah on the thirteenth with boiled chickpeas and distribute them, the income of the breadwinners in the household will be affected or that the members of the household will be afflicted with some calamity. This belief is baseless and is mere superstition.