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The Blessed Names of the Month of Ramadân

Name Meaning
Shahru Ramadān The month of Ramadān
Shahr u’l Bishāra The month of Glad Tidings
Shahr u’l Burhān The month of the Proof
Shahr u’l Ghufrān The month of Forgiveness
Shahr u’l ‘Ibāda The month of the Worship of Allāh
Shahr u’l Ihsān The month of Goodness
Shahr u’l Īmān The month of True Faith
Shahru Laylati’l Qadr The month of the Blessed Night of Power for night-long worship
Shahr u’l Mahāmid The month of the Praises of Allāh
Shahr u’l Masābīh The month of Luminous Lamps
Shahr u’l Masājid The month of the Mosques
Shahru Nabiyyunā Muhammad ‘alayhis  salātu wa’s salām The month of our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him
Shahr u’l Qiyām The month of Standing-up for Prayer
Shahr u’l Qur’ān The month of the Qur’ān, when it was first revealed
Shahr u’s Sa’āda The month of Happiness,
the month of Salvation
Shahr u’sh Shahāda The month of Witnessing
Shahr u’s Siyām  The month of Fasting
Shahr u’t Tahāra The month of Purification, of body, heart and soul
Shahr u’t Tarāwīh The month of Tarāwīh prayers
Shahr u’t Tawba The month of Repentance
Shahr u’z Ziyāda The month of Increase (in Allāh’s Blessings)

Source: “Tawdī’ Shahru Ramadān” (Farewell to the Month of Ramadān), a qasīda (poem) in Tabāraka Dhu’l ‘Ulā (Blessed is He, The Exalted), by Hujjat u’d Dīn Muhammad bin ‘Abdu’l ‘Azīz al-Warāq, Published by Sulaymān Mar’ī, Singapore, n.d.

Note: Various other attributive names of the month of Ramadān can be found in many other kutub (books).

Du’ā: O Allāh! Give us good health to fast the whole month of Ramadān, protect us from evil, bestow peace on all the Muslims in the whole world, accept our worship and make the month of Ramadān a means of our salvation and a means by which non-Muslims accept Islām. Āmīn.

References:
Reminiscences of Ramadān in Kenya

A Poem in Swahili to Greet Ramadān

Key to the Arabic Transliteration

Ramadān 1423, November 2002.
Toronto, Canada.

Al-Fātiha!