Etiquette
Rajab
Nightly Devotion
- Wake up two hours before Fajr.
- Niyyat:
Recite: Nawaytu’l-Arba`een
Nawaytu’-`Itikaf
Nawaytu’l-Khalwah
Nawaytu’l-‘Uzlah
Nawaytu ‘r-Riyadah
Nawaytu ‘s-Sulook
Lillahi Ta`ala l-`Azhim fee hadha ‘l-masjid (or fee hadha ‘l-jami`)
Sha`ban
Sha`ban is one of the meritorious months for which we find particular instructions in the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad 
. It is reported in authentic ahadith that Prophet Muhammad , used to fast most of the month in Sha`ban. These fasts are supererogatory (nafl) and well deserving of reward, for Sha`ban is the month immediately preceding the month of Ramadan. The Prophet mentioned in a hadith, “Rajab is the month of Allah, Sha`ban is my month and Ramadan is the month of the Nation”.
Ramadan
O ye who believe, fasting is decreed for you
as it was decreed for those before you;
perchance you will guard yourselves…..
Dhul-Hijjah
“Fasting is definitely desirable in certain meritorious days, some of them being found in every year, others in every month, and others in every week. Those that are found in every year after the days of Ramadan are:
- the Day of `Arafa [= 9th of Dhul-Hijjah]
- the Day of `Ashura’ [= 10th of Muharram]
- the first Ten Days of Dhul-Hijjah
- the first ten days of Muharram
Muharram
Imam Ghazali said in Ihya’ `Ulum al-Din: “Fasting is definitely desirable in certain meritorious days, some of them being found in every year, others in every month, and others in every week. Those that are found in every year after the days of Ramadan are:
- the Day of `Arafa [= 9th of Dhu ‘l-Hijja]
- the Day of `Ashura’ [= 10th of Muharram]
- the first Ten Days of Dhu ‘l-Hijja
- the first ten days of Muharram
