The three months are the months of Rajab, Shaban and Ramadan according to the lunar calendar. These months are the months when waves of mercy begin, spiritual peace and tranquility rise to hearts, and divine mercy overflows. The three months are the time to invest in the hereafter; a period full of opportunities to seek and gain the approval of our Lord. It is the time for purification, getting rid of sins and turning to God, worship, prayer and repentance. So how should we spend these three months that are so important to us?
TIME TO SOFTEN HEARTS
The three months are to be a balm for wounded hearts, to be a source of joy and happiness for sorrowful hearts, to stand by the oppressed, to benefit from these blessed times with all the beauties that make a person human and add value to their value. It is the time to purify ourselves from all kinds of evil thoughts and behaviors that try to enslave us. It is the time to enlighten our eyes that have become blind in the darkness we sometimes fall into, and to soften our hearts that have become hard.
SEASON OF AWAKENING
The three months are also a season of awakening. It is both a season of shaking off heedlessness and waking up, and a season of spiritual treatment and repair. It is a blessed season of awakening for people who have regressed in spirituality for various reasons during the previous nine months, who have been burdened with sins and whose heedlessness has deepened, which helps them to pull themselves together again, reminds them that there are much more important things than worldly affairs, and purifies them from their sins.
ACCOUNTING TIME BEFORE WITHDRAWAL TO ACCOUNT
Just as there are signs on the roads that help us find our way and tell us how to follow the path, these blessed days and nights are the turning points where we see our mistakes that shape our spiritual life and call ourselves to account before we are called to account.
IMPORTANCE OF THE MONTH OF RECEP
The spiritual value of Rajab, the first of the three months, is indicated in the Quran as follows: “The number of months is twelve according to the decree of Allah on the day when He governed the heavens and the earth. Four of them are the sacred months. This is a correct order. So do not wrong yourselves in them…” When the month of Rajab began, our Prophet would pray as follows: “O Allah! Bless Rajab and Shaban for us, and let us reach Ramadan…”
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REGAIP NIGHT
The first Friday night of the month of Rajab is the Regaib Night. It is a night of desire when Allah Almighty grants abundantly to His servants and gives them much reward for their little worship. It brings the good news of Ramadan, the month of Quran and fasting. It reminds us of the opportunities and possibilities offered to purify ourselves from sins and the infinite mercy and forgiveness of our Lord.
My Lord wants to forgive His servants. Therefore, He makes the difficult easy. He makes the days that are forgiven with little worship beautiful. Just as the diamond is valuable among stones, the dolphin is tongued among animals, and Mount Arafat is important among mountains, so the holy nights are valuable among days and the three months are valuable among months.
Our Prophet has given us the good news of the days when prayers are accepted as follows: “There are five nights on which prayers are not rejected; the first of the month of Rajab, the fifteenth of the month of Shaban, Friday, the nights of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.”
HOW SHOULD WE USE THE THREE MONTHS?
Let us briefly list how we should utilize the three months to pray both verbally and physically:
1- We must take stock of our souls. For this, we must ask ourselves, “How are we doing in our servitude?” We must contemplate, and think about vital issues such as, “Who am I, where did I come from, where am I going, what are God’s wishes from me?”
2- We must repent of our sins.
3 – We should read the Holy Quran, our book of life, and live by understanding it.
4- We should account for our prayers and perform our missed and voluntary prayers.
5- We should seek forgiveness from believers, reconcile those who are upset and angry, please their hearts, and try to make sad faces smile.
6 – We should pray for ourselves, our family and our other believing brothers.
7- In addition to fasting for a month in the month of Ramadan, we should also take care to fast in the months of Rajab and Shaban. We should fast on Mondays and Thursdays, and on the days when the Messenger of Allah fasted, such as the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month. We should give special importance to fasting, which restrains our desires and is one of the greatest obstacles to committing sins.
8 – During these days, we should try to approach Allah and ask for forgiveness through repentance, prayer, supplication and forgiveness. We should send blessings and greetings to our Prophet (pbuh), and renew our consciousness of following his sunnah and being from his ummah.
“REPENT WITH MOIST EYES”
Let me add the pearl words of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi here. He explains the truth of begging and repentance with these words: “Repent with a heart filled with the fire of repentance and with moist eyes! Because daisies bloom in sunny and wet places.”
IMPORTANT STOPS OF THE FLOWING TIME…
On this occasion, let us not forget that Rajab is the month of planting seeds, Shaban is the month of watering, and Ramadan is the month of harvesting. The three months are like a tree. Rajab is the month of the tree’s leaves, Shaban is the month of the ripening of fruits, and Ramadan is the collection of ripe fruits.
Thus, we say that these three months, which are important stops of the flowing time and contain lamps, which illuminate not only our dark nights with their lights but also our hearts that are overwhelmed with their spiritual blessings, which clarify our minds, and which are full of blessed nights, may they be instrumental in the revival of the Islamic Ummah, its unity and togetherness, the strengthening of brotherhood and in bringing us closer to it.
