The White Days of certain months such as Rajab, Sha'ban, and Ramadan, are considered more important, and are days of celebration. Jamkaran Mosque, Qom.
The White Days of certain months such as Rajab, Sha'ban, and Ramadan, are considered more important, and are days of celebration.[1]

The White Days or Ayyām al-Bīḍ (Arabic: ایّام البیض) are specific days of each Islamic month; they are holy days according to the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. These days are the 13th, 14th and 15th of every month in the Islamic calendar.[2] Shia Muslims believe that the white days of the lunar months of Rajab, Sha'ban and Ramadan are very virtuous.[3][4]

About the idiom

In the idiom Ayyam al-Beed (Arabic: ایّام البیض), Ayyam (Arabic: ایّام) is the Arabic plural of "یوم", meaning "days" and al-Beed is the Arabic plural of "ابیض", meaning "white" and "bright". "The white days" is its equivalent to English.

Etymology

There are couple of views on the etymology of this idiom:[5]

  1. One is that due to the fact that the nights in these three days are bright and white due to the fullness of the moon, the days of these three nights have been called the Ayyam al-Beed meaning the white days.


Acts of the white days

According to the Muslims, the most important practices in these three days are "Iʿtikāf" and "fasting".[6]

Fasting

Fasting on the white days is Mustahabb (duties recommended, but not essential). The reward for fasting is as great as fasting all the days of the year, when the fasting of these days continues, then the reward for fasting three days is equivalent to fasting a month, which is a good ten times more than without harming or damaging the fast of the whole month. There is a source in Hadith (by) Abu Dharr, may God be pleased with him, who said: The Prophet Muhammad, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, said to him: "If you fast from the month three days, then thirteen, fourteenth, and fifteen." From the month three days, a good deed is ten times the same, such as fasting an eternity ... and it is narrated that "the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, used to fast for several three days of every month."[7] In a sahih hadith from the Sunnah of Abi Dawud, Qatadah Ibn Malhan al-Qaysi narrated: "The Messenger of Allah used to command us to fast the days of the white nights: thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth of the month. He said: This is like keeping perpetual fast." (Abi Dawud 2449) [8]

A traditional nasheed celebrating the White Moon

The arabic word badr (بدر) means 'full moon' and is often translated as 'white moon.' A traditional nasheed, Talaʽ al-Badru ʽAlayna, celebrates the badr. The main stanza is:

See also

Resources

  1. ↑ "Ayyam al-Bid". WikiShia. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  2. ↑ معین, محمد. فرهنگ معین (in Persian). سرواژهٔ «ایام البیض»: انتشارات امیرکبیر.
  3. ↑ "ایام البیض چه روزهایی است ؟ - خبرگزاری صدا و سیما" (in Persian). Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "Why Did the Prophet Fast on the White Days of the Month?". SeekersGuidance. 2018-11-22. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  5. ↑ "معنای و وجه نامگذاری ایام البیض" (in Persian). Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "اعمال «ایام البیض» چیست؟ - خبرگزاری مهر" (in Persian). Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "The scientific signs in Fasting the white days". en.islamway.net. Retrieved 2020-06-30.
  8. ↑ https://sunnah.com/abudawud:2449
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