First of all, I would like to wish everyone a happy mewlid. This is the month that was blessed with the birth of the Best of Creation (pbuh).

Second I wish to inform you about the blessed hour of his birth, pbuh, in which all prayers are answered, but before that, we must first speak of the month of his birth, pbuh.

1) “His birth was in the month of Rabee’, not in Muharram, nor Rajab, nor Ramadan, nor any other honored month, because he, peace be upon him, is not honored by time, it is time that is honored by him, and likewise with place. If he had been born in one of the above-mentioned months, people might have imagined that he was honored by them, and so Allah Most High made his birth, peace be upon him, in a different month, to show His care for him, and his nobility according to Him.” [al-sayyid Muhammad bin Alawi al-Maliki, Al-Dakha’ir al-Muhammadiyya]

2) There is disagreement about the date of his birth, pbuh. Some say it is the 2nd, the 3rd, the seventh, or the 12th of this month. It is usually celebrated on the 12th.

The shaykh al-Dabbagh (r.a.) was asked about it and he said that it was on the night of the seventh, and that his birth took an hour, the hour right before sunset, so that he was finally released from his mother, pbuh, at sunset of the day of the seventh. This is the hour of the night in which one’s supplications are answered, he also says.

So try to wake up this coming night (Friday night, Saturday morning), one hour before Fajr, and pray to Allah Most High and do lots of salawat on the Prophet (pbuh), or read from his biography, pbuh, and don’t miss this hour of great great blessings.

I ask Allah (swt) to help us all wake up for this hour to honor His Prophet. pbuh, and to gain their acceptance. Ameen. And Happy Mewlid, once again, inshaAllah!

P.S. I made a big mistake when writing this post, and that is that I forgot that this particular hour is not dependent on one’s time zone, and that it is the one hour before fajr according to the time in Mecca. I’m really sorry about this, but I had to write this, even though it might anger someone who woke up one hour early for fajr because of me, when the timing was at another time, but it’s necessary to write this for knowledge for the future year, inshaAllah, and may Allah accept our works and prayers according to His generosity and to our intentions.