The Virtues of This Holy Night

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

This night is a holy night. Thank Allah ﷻ we are approaching it, and through Allah’s ﷻ lutf (grace) and ināyah (protection), we have reached these days. What Allah ﷻ wills happens, and nothing else.

People don’t have anything called faith anymore. They are tyrannizing themselves by themselves, nothing else. If they would obey Allah ﷻ and be His servants, they wouldn’t be tyrannizing themselves and they would be at ease. They would live comfortably, and so they would also reach Allah ﷻ in a comfortable state.

However, right now they’re doing all sorts of disobedience and rebellion, then they think that they’re doing something of importance, but their works have no benefit.

Thank Allah ﷻ, during these holy days we are trying to do as much as possible and to be servants to Him. We are being grateful to Allah ﷻ so these favors may continue.

Bil-shukri tadūmu n-ni‘am — Through being thankful, blessings continue.

And the greatest blessing is the ni‘mah (blessing) of īmān (faith) and Islām, because the nafs (ego) and shayṭān are always against this, they lean towards evil. Therefore, the majority of people are in evilness and rebellion. If you’re to do something good, there’s a thousand obstacles. But when trying to do something bad, they help you out, and one thinks that this is better.

The virtues of this night are great, and it has a lot of rewards. It is a night when Allah ﷻ accepts the du‘ās and answers them. It’s one of those nights when He grants more gifts and more rewards to Mu’mins (believers) and Muslims. Allah ﷻ orders His angels to go around looking on this night.

Allah ﷻ says:
“Is there anyone who is repenting so I may forgive him?
Is there anyone who is asking for insān so I may give them?
Is there anyone who is asking for health, cure, so I may give them?
Is there anyone who is in debt and is asking for it to be lifted so I may lift this debt off of them?”

Whatever anybody wants, they can ask on this night, and Allah ﷻ will give them and will answer it. Allah ﷻ is the Most Generous of the generous ones. Everything is in His hands. Nothing will end for Him by giving. He has no such fear, ḥāshā.

Allah ﷻ has created everything.

Therefore, this night is a holy night. Inshā’Allah, we are going to do as much as possible in terms of worship. We will strive in that. In between Maghrib and ‘Ishā’, again we’re going to recite three times Sūrat Yāsīn, and then until morning, whoever can pray 100 rak‘āts may pray. And if a person has qaḍā’ (missed) prayers, he can pray it as a makeup prayer with the intention of the 100 rak‘āts.

Our Holy Prophet ﷺ has spent this night in worship. He has enlivened that night, and there are plenty of aḥādīth about it. One of them was when our mother Ḥaḍrat ‘Ā’ishah saw our Holy Prophet ﷺ pray this night. He prolonged the prayer. She was watching him, and when he went to sajdah, he also kept in sajdah for a while. So our mother Ḥaḍrat ‘Ā’ishah was worried that the Prophet ﷺ might have passed away. She got that worried, and so she touched him on the foot and saw that there was movement.

Afterwards, when the Prophet ﷺ made taslīm and finished praying, she asked what the wisdom was behind making the prayer longer. “I even thought you had left this world,” she said. The Prophet ﷺ said, “Oh ‘Ā’ishah, tonight is a holy night when Allah’s ﷻ angels are sent down upon earth, and Allah ﷻ says, ‘I answer the du‘ās of anyone who’s asking Me.’ It’s such a night, so that’s why I kept it long.”

So may this holy night be mubārak (blessed). May it be victory for Islām. May it be a means for the Ṣāḥib (owner) to come. May Muslims be protected from everything, starting with these fitnahs (discords). May Allah ﷻ not make us in need of anyone. May Allah ﷻ strengthen our faith for the honour of this night, inshā’Allah.

Wa min Allāh at-Tawfīq.

Al-Fatiha.

•⁠ ⁠Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbaniق

27 March 2021

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