 As-salamu alaykum and welcome to five things you didn't know about Muharram Fact number one even before the religion of Islam the month of Muharram was considered as the four holy month in which war was forbidden. The word Muharram itself comes from the word haram meaning forbidden hence the stoppage of war in these months. Despite this Imam al-Husayn alayhi as-salam was killed in this month. Fact number two many other sects in Islam celebrated Muharram especially Ashura. But why is that? Because it was the day Prophet Musa alayhi as-salam was granted victory over Pharaoh. Fact number three in the original Hijri calendar Muharram was actually not the first month of the year but rather it was the first month in the calendar used at the time of Jahiliya and Omar ibn al-Khattab reverted it to such. Fact number four Yazid la'natullah alayhi had sent out narrators to Karbala to write what happened during Ashura. But can we trust him? It was also Sayyid al-Zaynab and Imam al-Sajjad alayhim as-salam and many of the other family of Imam al-Husayn who lived after Karbala and would constantly recite the tragedies of Karbala. Fact number five the month of Muharram is considered as the holiest month in the Islamic calendar followed by the month of Ramadan even though Laylat al-Qadir the day in which the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad falls in the holy month of Ramadan. This has been five things you didn't know about the holy month of Muharram.