{"id":48490,"date":"2023-04-14T12:45:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T10:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/?p=48490"},"modified":"2023-04-14T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T10:45:41","slug":"laylatul-qadr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/laylatul-qadr\/","title":{"rendered":"Laylatul Qadr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Brothers and Sisters!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facing saddening days for the past months with natural disasters around the world and endless sufferings of the Ummah, we look forward to Laylatul Qadr [Night of Power], which will be a means of inspiration and peace. On next Monday, we will meet the Night of Power with the grace of Allah (swt). Allah (swt) mentions in the Quran,<strong>\u201c<\/strong> <strong>Indeed, We sent it [i.e., the Qur\u2019\u0101n] down during the Night of Decree.<\/strong> <strong>And what can make you know what is the Night of Decree? The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter.<\/strong> <strong>Peace it is until the emergence of dawn.\u201d<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Praise be to Allah (swt) who has brough us to these special days. May Laylatul Qadr be a blessing to all Muslims around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Brothers and Sisters! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just as the sultan of the months is the blessed month of Ramadan, the pearl of the nights is the Night of Power. &nbsp;Rasulullah (saw) has said, <strong>\u201cWhoever spends the Night of Power in worship, their past sins will be forgiven.\u201d<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> This precious night takes its essential value from the fact that the Qur&#8217;an was sent down in order to bring all humanity from the darkness of oppression and ignorance to the enlightenment of Islam. The Qur&#8217;an, was sent down for the purpose of reading, understanding and living what is understood. Those who internalise the principles and values \u200b\u200brevealed by the Qur&#8217;an and organise their lives under the guidance of the Qur&#8217;an, will achieve happiness both in this world and in the hereafter.<\/p>\n<p>The Qur&#8217;an will continue to inform and show the truth to all humanity until the Day of Judgment. Pleased are the people who hold fast to the Qur&#8217;an and follow the straight path shown by it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Jama\u2019ah!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The example of how to revive this glorious night is of course shown by Rasulullah (saw) as he said, <strong>\u201cLook for the Night of Power in the odd nights of the last ten days of Ramadan!\u201d<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> In addition, Aisha (ra) asked how we should make dua during this night. Rasulullah (saw) advised by mentioning the following dua, <strong>\u201cOh Allah! You are Forgiving and love forgiveness so forgive me.\u201d <\/strong>According to what is narrated by Aisha (ra), <strong>The Messenger of Allah (saw) used to worship more in the last ten days of Ramadan than the other days of Ramadan.<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a> <strong>During this period, the Prophet would revive the night by, waking up his household, and continuing to pray sincerely.<\/strong><a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a> Let&#8217;s revive these nights properly, increase our voluntary prayers and seek repentance. Let&#8217;s pray for all humanity and our brothers and sisters around the world. Let&#8217;s pray for the regions destroyed by the earthquake, Palestine and East Turkestan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Brothers and Sisters!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s revive this special night properly in order to achieve salvation on the Night of Power. Let&#8217;s bring our servitude to Allah (swt) to the top with our worship. Let&#8217;s not forget to attend the programs to be held in our mosques on the Night of Power with all our family members. Let&#8217;s not forget that the mercy of Allah (swt) is on the congregation.<\/p>\n<p>May Allah (swt) make us amongst his content servants who know the value of the Qur&#8217;an, which was revealed in the Night of Power. Ameen!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> Surah Al-Qadr, 97:1-5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\"><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/a> Buh\u00e2r\u00ee, Fadl\u00fc leyleti\u2019l-kadr, 1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> Buh\u00e2r\u00ee, Leylet\u00fc\u2019l-kadr, 3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a> M\u00fcslim, \u0130\u2019tik\u00e2f, 8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" name=\"_ftn5\">[5]<\/a> Buh\u00e2r\u00ee, Leylet\u00fcl-kadr, 5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/EN_14_04_23_Laylatul_Qadr_.pdf\">Khutba &#8211; Laylatul Qadr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing saddening days for the past months with natural disasters around the world and endless sufferings of the Ummah, we look forward to Laylatul Qadr [Night of Power], which will be a means of inspiration and peace. On next Monday, we will meet the Night of Power with the grace of Allah (swt).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[23243,23237],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48491,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48490\/revisions\/48491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.igmg.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}