Tuesday 30 July 2013

THE NIGHT OF POWER

This night is an essence too sublime to be understood by human intellect. Its greatness is far beyond human realization. Would that you knew what the night of power is like!

It is the greatest and most precious of all events which the universe has witnessed. this night is better than a thousand month. oh! eighty-three years and four months, 83.4 years! On that night, every matter of significance are made plain and distinct; new values and standards are established; the fortunes of nature are determined; and values and standards are sifted.

It is a great night which the whole universe mark yearly with joy and prayers.
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SIDE ATTRACTION: Where the human intellect resides.
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It is the night of perfect communion between this world and the highest society. It is the night which marked the beginning of the revelation of the Qur'an to Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him), an event unparalleled in the history of mankind for its splendour and  the significance it has for the life of mankind as a whole.

On that night, the angels and the spirit descend by their lord's permission with all his decrees. They fill all the spaces between the heaven and the earth in such a splendid, universal celebration, vividly portrayed in a Quranic chapter. There is also the light of the angels and the spirit moving between the earth and the highest society.
THE NIGHT
A number of traditions specifying this night have come down to us: 
some stress that it is the twenty-seventh of Ramadan, others the twenty-first. The point is just that it is one of the last ten days of the month of Ramadan.

DO NOT OVER LOOK IT
humanity, out of ignorance and to its misfortune may overlook the value and importance of the night of power. When humanity ignores all that, it loses the happiest and most beautiful sign of grace which God bestowed on it. It loses the real happiness and peace gifted to it by Islam, the peace of conscience, family and society. Hence, we shouldn't forget nor neglect this event. 

The prophet has taught us an easy and enjoyable way to commemorate that night, so that our souls may always be in close communion with it and with the universal event which took place in it. He has urged us to spend this night of each year in devotion. he said:
"seek the night of power in the last ten nights of Ramadan."

Hence, the Prophet specified that the consecration of that night must be motivated by faith and devotion. This would make its consecration by an individual an indication of his full awareness of the far- reaching effects of what took place in that night.

the Islamic method of character building links worship with faith and the truth it establishes in the heart and conscience of the individual. This link between the anniversary of the Night of Power and its consecration in faith and devotion is a part of the successful and upright method of Islam.

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