The Meaning of the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) Statement: “There is no ‘adwa, no tatiyyah, no hama, and no Safar”

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah bless you. As we begin this month, the first of Safar, may Allah bless you. In the hadith , during the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, people took an omen as a bad sign from the month of Safar and disliked traveling or getting married in it. These are customs, may Allah keep you safe. Some Muslims still hold on to them. What is your guidance?

Answer:
As you mentioned, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade taking an omen as a bad sign in general, in everything. One does not take an omen as a bad sign from created things, because created things have no power to act in the universe, and what befalls a person of hardship or good is not attributed to them. They are merely times that Allah has made for His servants to live in and worship their Lord. They have no power to benefit or harm; rather, this is in the hand of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He).
Taking an omen as a bad sign is tatiyyah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Tatiyyah is shirk (associating partners with Allah), tatiyyah is shirk, tatiyyah is shirk.” It is shirk with Allah (Mighty and Majestic) because it is the belief that something other than Allah causes harm and does ill to the created being. This is a belief of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: meaning that contagion does not spread by itself, as the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance believed, but rather Allah is the one who spreads it if He wills. Contagion exists. Yes. But the intent is to deny the type of contagion believed in by the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. So.
This is a belief of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance: no ‘adwa, no tatiyyah, no hama. The hama is the owl, a type of bird from which people take an omen as a bad sign. They believe that if they hear its voice on a house, its owner will die, so they take an omen as a bad sign from the sound of this bird and think it is a sign of a person’s death.
So when they hear its voice, they say it is a bad omen for themselves. This is a belief of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and lifespans are in the hand of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). And no Safar means no taking an omen as a bad sign in the month of Safar. It is merely one of the months of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He), which He made one of the times for worship, earning a livelihood, and so on. There is nothing specific to the month of Safar among the months that makes it a time of harm or evil. Rather, this is in the hand of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). This is one statement. The second statement is that “Safar” means a disease that occurs in the stomach or the abdomen. They believe that this disease ends a person’s life, but that is not the case. Ending a person’s life is in the hand of Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). Yes.