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Shabban is already a month that the Prophet's

I mentioned is a forgotten month.

And so the coronavirus shabban is going to be, you know, extremely forgotten.

Obviously, you know, people will definitely not pay attention to this month with

everything that's going on. As everyone is talking about how are we going to plan for Taroiha, how are we going to plan for, you know, Ramadan, are we going to have Erid indoors, outdoors, what's going to happen? People are already overlooking this blessed month that's right at our doorstep right now and we need to make use of it.

So to recap, in sha-lata-la-la-la and then I'll get back into the full subject, the name shaban, just like all of the names in the calendar comes from one of two things. It's either weather or war. Everything in the calendar. If you go to my series on the 10 days of the

Hija you'll find that I go through the namings of each month. Every single

month is named after weather or war or both. And so when it comes to shaban,

al-Havda and Hajar Mahalah al-I, he mentions one of two possibilities. He says that one of the reasons why it would be named ShabBan Bihabilma because people would go out and they would

carve out their wells to prepare their water supply for the month of hold on.

The month, the first of all on came in heat.

It referred to the thirst of people.

And so the month before was a chance to, and I don't want to use the word

hoard because hoard is not a good word right now in particular, but to

collect their water supply, prepare themselves, inshallata for the moment.

So that's the first possibility that L haphudu Mahj

al-Lahm. The second one he says that Ofil-Garrat that people would rush to

attack each other in the month of shibam, they would descend upon each other in the month of Shaibam in war. Why? Because Shaibam comes after the month of Rajab, which is a month that all fighting was to cease. Rajab is the fourth of the sacred months, and because all

fighting would cease and Rajab, all of the tribes were waiting for Rajab to end so they could pick their weapons up and they could attack one another again.

So he says that that's the second possibility and there's a third possibility that some of the

scholars mentioned other than al-Havla and hajal-Wahmahala.

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