Day of Ashoor

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The tenth day of Muharram is marked as “Yom e Ashoor”. This day has a specified importance before the rise of Islam. We can understand this through the narration of Hazrat Abbas RA. As he stated, Then Allah’s Apostle ﷺ came to Madina and saw the Jews fasting on the day of Ashoor. He asked, ‘What is this?’ The Jews replied, ‘This is the day when Allah rescued the Bani Israel from their enemies, so Prophet Moses fasted on this day.’ Prophet Muhammad ﷺ replied, ‘We bear more rights to Musa than you,’ therefore He ﷺ fasted that day and ordered the Muslims to fast too –Sahi Bukhari. Pertaining to the blessings and rewards that come with fasting of Ashoora, Prophet ﷺ said in a hadith, “This fast compensates for the (minor) sins of the past year” –Sahi Muslim.

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