The best days of the year are here; there are no other days in which good deeds are more loved by God.
Good deeds are many, and include helping others, as well as remembrance of God.
A hadith singles out 3 expressions of praise for God: 1- declaring the oneness of God, and that only God is to be worshipped (tahlil) 2- declaring God's greatness (takbir) 3- praising God (tahmid )
Avoiding sins in the other side of the coin of 'doing good deeds.'
Sahl (d. 896, the mystic of Shushtar) said: The righteous as well as the wicked do [good] deeds, but only a steadfastly sincere person avoids sins.
"And [on the Day of Judgment] when the baby girl who was buried alive shall be asked, for what sin was she killed?" (Quran, 81:8-9) bbc.com/news/world-asi…
Quranic exegete Biqa`i (died 1480 CE = 885 H) commented:
Throwing [the baby girl] into the grave dug for her is similar to the stars swooping down and falling (which is mentioned earlier in 81:2)....
Since this was the simplest way of killing among them (the pre-Islamic Arabs), and they used to think that this was not of significance .....
Fasting #Ashura : yes or no, and if yes how many days?
Ashura is the 10th of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar.
According to moonsighting reports (see: moonsighting.com), it falls on september 10th 2019.
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Fasting One Day
It is recommended, in the Sunni and Zaydi Shi`i schools, to fast the day. There are numerous sahih hadiths about its fasting, some of them mentioning that it was an obligatory fast in the days before fasting Ramadan became obligatory.