{"id":12548,"date":"2026-02-03T05:36:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=12548"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:36:58","slug":"the-first-10-days-of-dhul-hijjah-dont-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=12548","title":{"rendered":"The First 10 Days of Dhul-Hijjah: Don\u2019t Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10972\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-faith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-First-10-Days-of-Dhul-Hijjah-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10972\" class=\"wp-image-10972 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-faith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-First-10-Days-of-Dhul-Hijjah-2-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"The First 10 Days of Dhul Hijjah\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Among the great opportunities and the blessed times for the competitors of Paradise is the first 10 days of \u00a0Dhul-Hijjah.<\/p><\/div>\n<pre style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">By Editorial Staff<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islamic-creed\/almighty-allah\/between-love-of-allah-and-love-of-oneself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allah<\/a> describes the sheer bliss in the Heavens which He has prepared for the believers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islamic-creed\/the-unseen\/why-do-muslims-believe-in-life-after-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hereafter<\/a>, He pays the attention the fact that Paradise is the best reward that a person may win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Almighty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islamic-creed\/almighty-allah\/who-is-god\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">God<\/a> says,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Indeed, the righteous will be in pleasure. * On adorned couches, observing. * They will be given to drink [pure] wine [which was] sealed. * The last of it is musk. So for this let the competitors compete.<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/quran-translations\/en-translation\/al-ajmi-al-ghamidi-and-al-lahuni\/recitation-surat-al-mutaffifin-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Mutaffifin<\/a> 83:22-26)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The biggest prize is Paradise indeed, not anything else. So, the believers should compete to win it through observing everything that keeps one close to God and making use of the blessed times when the rewards are doubled by offering acts of worship as much as possible during them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Among the great opportunities and the blessed times for the competitors of Paradise is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/featured\/virtues-of-the-first-ten-days-of-dhul-hijjah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the first 10 days of \u00a0Dhul-Hijjah<\/a>. The excellence of these days has been expressed in numerous hadiths of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new-muslims.info\/category\/prophet-muhammad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prophet<\/a> (peace be upon him). He (peace be upon him) said:\u00a0&#8220;There are no deeds as excellent as those done in these ten days.&#8221;\u00a0They (the companions) said,\u00a0&#8220;Not even Jihad?&#8221;\u00a0He (peace be upon him) said,\u00a0&#8220;No, not even Jihad except a man who goes forth endangering his life and wealth and does not return with anything.&#8221;\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islamic-history\/al-bukhari-the-imam-of-hadith-and-sunnah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Bukhari<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Also, it is reported that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:\u00a0&#8220;There are no other days that are as great as these in the sight of Allah, the Most Sublime. Nor are there any deeds more beloved to Allah then those that are done in these ten days. So increase in <em>tahlil<\/em> (to say <em>la ilaha ill Allah <\/em>\u201cNo one worthy of worship but Allah), <em>takbir<\/em> (to say <em>allahu akbar<\/em> \u201cAllah is the Greatest\u201d) and <em>tahmid<\/em> (to say <em>alhumdulillah<\/em> \u201cpraise be to Allah\u201d).&#8221; (At-Tabarani)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Enjoy watching this video by Sheikh <a href=\"en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haitham_al-Haddad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Haitham Al-Haddad<\/a> who will talk about the virtues and superiority of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/featured\/virtues-of-the-first-ten-days-of-dhul-hijjah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first 10 days of Dhul-Hijjah<\/a> and explain the recommendable deeds during these blessed days.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The First 10 Days of Dhul Hijjah: Don\u2019t Miss (The Faith)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ejo9n98Mv4s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the great opportunities and the blessed times for the competitors of Paradise is the first ten days of the month of Dhul-Hijjah. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3410,2404],"tags":[1373,7653,2102,2103,1360,7654,7655,3432,1376,7656,9,7657,7658,7659,2566,7660,2532,1052,7643,7662,2150,7663,7664,7665,7666,7667,7668,7669,7670],"class_list":["post-12548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hajj","category-the-faith","tag-acts-of-worship","tag-arafa","tag-arafah","tag-arafat","tag-charity","tag-dhul-ijjah","tag-eid-al-ad-ha","tag-eid-al-adha","tag-fasting","tag-fasting-in-the-first-ten-days-of-dhul-hijjah","tag-featured","tag-first-ten-days-of-dhul-hijjah","tag-giving-in-charity","tag-giving-to-charity","tag-hajj","tag-hajji","tag-pilgrimage","tag-prayer","tag-sacrifice","tag-sacrificial-animal","tag-tahajjud","tag-takbir","tag-the-days-of-dhul-hijjah","tag-the-days-of-tashreeq","tag-the-first-10-days-of-dhul-hijjah-dont-miss","tag-the-most-recommendable-deeds","tag-ud-hiyah","tag-udhiyah","tag-virtues-of-the-first-ten-days-of-dhul-hijjah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-First-10-Days-of-Dhul-Hijjah-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}