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by G. A. Parwez
translated by Dr. Manzoor-ul-Haque
LAILAT-UL-QADAR, THE NIGHT
OF MANIFESTATION OF A NEW WORLD What are the problems before the living nations for the solutions of which their days and nights become the primary swamp of their struggle and action? And which problems are confronting the Muslim community for which the Muslims get increasingly worried about the solutions? And the solutions the priests of their religion have suggested out of their sheer benefaction are given below with the help of the two examples just for you to estimate as to what the quality of their solutions is. The following questions and their answers have been published in Sadaq (Lacknow) vide its issue of July 15: What is thing known as “Shah-i-Qadar”? What is intended to search it out? What is its state and how does it look to be? How to seek it out? These are the very questions, which continue emerging in the mind.
Some one says it is the light which looks manifested during the condition of pray and
austerity. While other says it is some thing else. As many are the preachers, so many are
the contradictory sermons. These, instead of settling the issue, pay to increase the
miasma of mental agony. After consulting the exegesis of the Sura Inna an zal na by Maulana Shabbir Ahmed Usmani and
the annotations of Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani given in the Quran, it became known that
an specific commotion comes to prevail upon imbuing adequate inclination, motivation and
interest during prayers and invocation. Even the consulting of Tafseer Biyaan-ul-Quran for
the meaning and exegesis of this Sura could not solve this knot any more. From the Bukhari’s Ahadith of the Messenger(s), it became known
that “Shab Qadr” comes to effectuate at one night i.e. the night which falls in
one of the odd nights of the last ten days of Ramadan. What does come to effectuate in
these nights? It is hoped you will unveil the covering so that the long-standing confusion
is settled. Hope you will very kindly guide on this issue. SADAQ “Shab Qadr” belongs to the transcendental world. Its complete detail has not even occurred in Hadith. And what so ever it is – we have only this thing beneficial at our disposal – and it is that what we ought to do during those nights. It is the most virtuous and the most reverend night of the year (as is the Friday, the most virtuous day of the week and Ramadan, the most reverend month of the year). In Hadith, it has been identified that it falls in the odd nights of the last ten days of Ramadan: 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, the five nights. The mind of great many religious scholars goes to the 27th night. Keeping it ambiguous, unfolded the open expediency of Sharia, the religious code, that all the five nights (and when it becomes a habit: all the ten nights) be lived busy in striving for the Divine prayer, the invocation and the revamping of one’s self. Surely there would have been shower of special lightning and sparkling and a few of the pious men (Ahl-i-Dil) would have had the visibility of something through their material eyes. The real, the genuine, phenomenon is that maximum preparations be made for the awakening of the soul and the purification of the self - and no opportunity for supplication and benediction be lost. TOLU-E-ISLAM
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