​                   The month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal 1446 A.H.

​Rabīʿ al-Awwal (Arabic: رَبیع الأوَّل) is the third month of the lunar year. The word Rabīʿ (Arabic: ربیع) is from the root "r-b-'a" (ر-ب-ع) which means the number four, and since spring (the season) is one-fourth of the year, it came to be called "Rabiʿ". Both Rabi' I and Rabi' II are called "Rabi' " (spring) because their appellation occurred in this season. This month is known among Shi’ites as the month of happiness, since the birthdays of the Prophet and Imam al-Ṣadiq, and the first day of Imam al-Mahdi's Imamate, have occurred in this month.
Mirza Jawad Maliki Tabrizi writes in his well-known book, al-Muraqibāt, that Rabīʿ al-Awwal is the spring of all the other months, in which the divine blessings are visible. In this month, the treasuries of divine blessings and the lights of His beauty descend on the Earth, because the Prophet's birthday has occurred in this month, and it may be said that no blessing like the Prophet himself has ever been bestowed to the Earth since the beginning of its creation; the superiority of this blessing over the others is comparable to the superiority of the Prophet to other creatures.