Sadullah Khan – Searching for a lost night
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We are witnessing
the odd nights
of the last 10 nights of Ramadan.
We are among the nights of Leilatul Qadr.
And Laylatul Qadr indeed is one of the
most, in fact, the most special night.
And Allah testifies in the Quran to its
significance
by mentioning it by name in the Quran.
Is
also referred to in other verses.
But is mentioned in the surah
on 3 occasions.
Surely we have revealed what we reveal meaning
the Quran on the night of power.
Can mean power, it can mean destiny It
has many meanings but primarily we refer to
power
and what will make you comprehend what the
night of power is.
The night of
power is greater than a 1000 months.
Now we know that a 1000 months
is over 83 years
And 83 years
is more than the average human lifespan.
So you can imagine the value of 1
night in this month greater than a lifetime.
Anas bin Malik
a
companion who grew up in the house of
Rasulullah said
the prophet
said that this is documented in the sunun
of Iblimaza.
He said that the prophet said
has come to you this month,
and it has a night greater in value
than a 1000 months.
He said,
this night,
in this month, greater than a 1000 months,
and whoever is deprived of the benefit
of this night and of this month
or of this night in this month
is deprived of all goodness.
And then another version says,
He says, none is so deprived of any
goodness as the one who's deprived of the
goodness of this night.
Three points for our consideration insha'allah.
1,
why is the night referred to rather than
the day? What is night of power? What
about the day? Why isn't the day of
power? Why the night is singled
out? Secondly, why the night of power? Why
that title, Leil al Khadr?
And thirdly, why are we searching for it?
Why don't you know exactly when it is?
Very briefly,
as for the night,
there is perhaps a higher purpose
behind Allah
choosing the night, Layla Layla to Qadr, Layla
to Mubarak,
for the commencement
of the final revelation.
Because
the night is indeed
conducive
to quietness,
to solitude,
to serenity,
to peacefulness,
to seclusion,
to tranquility
suitable for the nourishment
of the soul,
which is to receive
revelation and to receive guidance in the case
of Rasulullah
and even for
ourselves,
the night
conducive. And as the Quran says,
that the night in Nanashi at a layli
here, I should do what, oh, wakwamukila.
Surely, in the wake of the night, the
soul is most receptive
and the words are most effective.
As for power,
Allah is the ultimate source of power.
He's the first without a beginning,
the last without an ending.
All powerful.
So Allah
is the ultimate source of power, a power
that's infinite,
inexhaustible,
incomparable and all encompassing.
And we know that the all
powerful creator, the creator of all creation,
we see in the earth, the heavens and
the earth.
In the creation of the heavens and the
earth, the alternation of night and day.
There are signs for those
who use who use the intelligence and who
exercise the intellect, who use a thinking capacity,
those who reflect.
But
ayaat can also mean, in other verses, the
verse of the Quran. So whether you look
at the ayaat of the Quran or the
ayaat of Allah outside,
all these come from the same source of
power. The ayat of the Quran, the source
is the all powerful. The creation of the
heavens and the earth, those ayat also
the source is the all powerful.
So the all powerful creator
and revealer
chose to commence his final revelation
to empower humanity
on what he called a little Qadr,
the night of power.
So we connect to the all powerful
through the revelation
which came to empower us
and it was revealed on the night of
power.
The third point,
as for the exact
night,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam made numerous
hadith and of course in
in the odd nights of the last 10
nights of Ramadan.
Search for Rehan al Qadr in the odd
nights of the last 10 nights of Ramadan.
Now the information of the exact night
was conveyed to the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
Which night it was
exactly was conveyed to Mirasul salallahu alaihi wasallam,
but was lifted or erased from his memory.
Now, this is not something unusual.
In the Quran, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala at
times causes previous revelations
to be abrogated and then to be forgotten.
Or he may erase from the memory of
prophets
those things he wishes to be
erased
and replace it with something better.
For example, in the Quran, in Surah Baqarah,
Never do we cause a verse or a
message
to be,
shall we say abrogated
or cancelled
or cause to be forgotten
except that you bring something better.
And surely,
Allah
has the power of will to do anything.
All powerful.
So the incident I want to refer to
here
in the life of the prophet
and that we want to note is documented
in the Sahih of Imam al Bukhari.
And Ubada bin a Samit.
The prophet came out.
The prophet
says, the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam came out to inform us about
Laylatul Qadr.
And when he came out to inform us,
he saw he saw an altercation and argumentation,
a disputation,
a quarreling
between Muslim brothers.
And then these people were arguing and quarrelling
for Rufiyahat. Allah erase it from me.
By
chance, perhaps,
it is better for you.
Now we search for it in the odd
nights of the last 10 nights of Ramadan.
The exact timing of little Qadr
was lifted
maybe so that we may realize how damaging,
how detrimental
conflict
and argumentation
is to us as a community of faith
And we are still
wallowing and caught up in the quagmire
of argumentation
and disputation over the most secondary issues.
Conflict, you see, removes power.
Conflict
removes power.
They cannot do to us what they're doing
to us in all over the world. We
have the most natural resources.
If you look at the world from the
center of Africa to Indonesia, the entire center
of the world, 70% of the world's mineral
resources
are there. Population wise,
more than 1 third of the world's population.
A single block
of land from Indonesia right across.
Even in India where the minority were 120,000,000
right down to Africa.
Weak leadership, corrupt leadership,
and a lack of unity
and the lack of will to see the
wisdom behind
cooperation amongst ourselves. We are so preoccupied.
We are so preoccupied,
even among the olema, so preoccupied with whose
calf is and whose more calf is than
the other, as if we are the only
ones who know the deal.
And none of these arguments are new. Not
a single one of the arguments
With it issues or whatever, not a single
one of them is a new argument.
It means that we haven't yet actually retrogressing.
So the Quran says,
do not fall into conflict, into disputation, into
argumentation in the Quran, Surah Anfal verse 46,
because then your power will depart.
So in this period of searching for the
night of power,
do not let conflict and negativity towards each
other
sapped our energies
and deplete our power. Let's make a commitment.
Despite our differences and in spite of our
differences,
that we gather together
under the shahada,
under
the belief in tawhid, in one
Allah Mayimbal says, what benefits us, benefits all
of us. When they hit us in Kashmir,
they're hitting all of us. When they hit
us in Myanmar, they hit all of us.
When they hit us in China, they hit
all of us. When they hit us in
Palestine, they're hitting all of
us. And all we do, MashaAllah, we do
hate but we make dua.
We become so weakened.
So, he says, Manfar, what benefits us, benefits
all of us. What harms us, harms all
of us.
We have 1 Allah, 1 Qibla, 1 Quran,
1 Kaaba. Everything is 1. What a pity
that we are divided.
So
in this period of searching
for this night of power,
remember why it was lifted from the Rasul,
according to Zayi al Bukhari. Why was it
lifted? Because of 2 other Muslims arguing. Allah
lifted it from the prophet. Prophet didn't do
anything. We didn't do anything.
But perchance to learn that Layl al Qadr
was taken away because of people arguing. And
Allah said, let this be a lesson to
you.
And yet we argued. Some people even argue
over.
So do not let conflicts and negativity towards
each other set our energies and deplete our
power.
On this night of power,
may Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, the all powerful,
empower us
through His infinite mercy
with the powerful light
of the guidance of the Quran.
May He empower us through His infinite mercy
and with the powerful light of guidance from
the Quran.
And may He envelope us with His pardon
and His forgiveness.
We ask Allah in the words of the
prophets,
as He said to his wife, the best
prayer for this night, for these nights.
O Allah, You are the pardoner and forgiver
of sins.
You are most generous. You love to pardon,
so forgive us.