Fasting during Shawwal

 Shawwal (Arabic : ﺷَﻮَّﺍﻝ , Šawwāl) is the tenth month of the lunar based Islamic calendar. Shawwāl stems from the verb

shāla (ﺷَﺎﻝَ) to 'lift or carry', generally to take or move things from one place to another, so named because a female

camel normally would be carrying a fetus at this time of year.

Fasting during Shawwāl

The first day of Shawwāl is Eid al-Fitr . Some Muslims observe six days of fasting during Shawwāl beginning the day after Eid ul-Fitr since fasting is prohibited on this day. These six days of fasting together with the Ramadan fasts, are equivalent to fasting all year round. The reasoning behind this tradition is that a good deed in Islam is rewarded 10 times, hence fasting 30 days during Ramadan and 6 days during Shawwāl is equivalent to fasting the whole year in fulfillment of the obligation. [1]

The Shia scholars do not place any emphasis on the six days being consecutive while among the Sunnis the majority of Shafi`i scholars consider it recommended to fast these days consecutively. They based this on a hadith related by Tabarani and others wherein Muhammad is reported to have said, "Fasting six consecutive days after Eid al-Fitr is like fasting the entire year." Other traditional scholarly sources among the Hanafiyya and Hanbaliyya do not place an emphasis on consecutive days, while the strongest opinion of the Malikiyya prefers any six days of the month, consecutively or otherwise.

Timing

The Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, and months begin when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar calendar year is 10 to 11 days shorter than the

solar year , Shawwāl migrates throughout the seasons. The estimated start and end dates for Shawwāl, based on the Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia, are: [2]

Shawwāl dates between 2018 and 2023

AH First day (CE/AD) Last day (CE/AD)

1439 15 June 2018 13 July 2018

1440 4 June 2019 3 July 2019

1441 24 May 2020 21 June 2020

1442 13 May 2021 10 June 2021

1443 2 May 2022 30 May 2022

1444 21 April 2023 20 May 2023

Islamic events

01 Shawwāl, Eid al-Fitr is celebrated throughout the Muslim World for three consecutive days until the 3rd day of this month.

08 Shawwāl, the destruction of Jannatul Baqee' [Baqee' Holy Graveyard] and Jannatul Mualla on 8 Shawwal 1926 by the Saudi government[citation needed ]

13 Shawwāl, primary traditionist of the Sunni Muslims,

Muhammad al-Bukhari , was born in 194 AH. [citation needed ]

17 Shawwāl, early Muslims took part in the Battle of Uhud

18 Shawwal, URS Of Sufi Mystic And Poet Amir Khusro ,

22 Shawwāl 1284 AH, death of Haji Dost Muhammad Qandhari , an Afghan Sufi master of Naqshbandi tradition

23 Shawwal, Death Anniversary Of Ghulam Farid Sabri And Maqbool Ahmed Sabri

25 Shawwāl, martyrdom of Imām Ja‘far as-Sādiq