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The Blessed Names of the Month of Ramadān |
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Name |
Meaning |
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Shahru Ramadān |
The month of Ramadān |
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Shahr-ul-Bishāra |
The month of Glad Tidings |
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Shahr-ul-Burhān |
The month of the Proof |
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Shahr-ul-Ghufrān |
The month of Forgiveness |
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Shahr-ul-‘Ibāda |
The month of the Worship of Allāh |
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Shahr-ul-Ihsān |
The month of Sincere Faith |
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Shahr-ul-Īmān |
The month of True Faith |
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Shahru Laylatil-Qadr |
The month of the Blessed Night of Power for night-long worship |
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Shahr-ul-Mahāmid |
The month of the Praises of Allāh |
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Shahr-ul-Masābīh |
The month of Luminous Lamps |
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Shahr-ul-Masājid |
The month of the masājid |
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Shahru Nabiyyunā Muhammad ‘alayhis -salātu was-salām |
The month of our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him |
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Shahr-ul-Qiyām |
The month of Standing-up for Prayer |
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Shahr-ul-Qur’ān |
The month of the Qur’ān, when it was first revealed |
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Shahr-us-Sa‘āda |
The month of Happiness, the month of Bliss |
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Shahr-ush-Shahāda |
The month of Witnessing |
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Shahr-us-Siyām |
The month of Fasting |
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Shahr-ut-Tahāra |
The month of Purification, of body, heart and soul |
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Shahr-ut-Tarāwīh |
The month of Tarāwīh prayers |
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Shahr-ut-Tawba |
The month of Repentance |
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Shahr-uz-Ziyāda |
The month of Increase (in Allāh’s Blessings and Bounties) |
Source: Tawdī‘ Shahru Ramadān (Farewell to the Month of Ramadān), a qasīda (poem) in Tabāraka Dhul ‘Ulā (Blessed is The Possessor of Exaltation), by Hujjat-ud-Dīn Muhammad bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Warāq, Published by Sulaymān Mar‘ī, Singapore, n.d.
Note: Various other attributive names of the month of Ramadān can be found in many other kutub (books).
Du‘ā’: O Allāh! Give us good health to fast the whole month of Ramadān, protect us from evil, bestow peace on all the Muslims in the whole world, accept our worship and make the month of Ramadān a means of our salvation and a means by which non-Muslims accept Islām. Āmīn.
References: Reminiscences of Ramadān in Kenya
A Poem in Swahili to Greet Ramadān
Key to the Arabic Transliteration
Siddiq Osman Noormuhammad.
Ramadān 1423, November 2002. Toronto, Canada.