Night of Power

I did six umrahs.

And then when I was in Medina, And at the last brink of Ramadan, Laylatul Qadr, it was the 27th night.

We don't know if it was Laylatul Qadr or not, but it felt like a magical night.

Out of my mouth, I uttered the words, Ya Allah, make me a leader in the Ummah.

A dua I've never made before in my life.

It's a certain yes.

And that's the issue is that people give up and

then, oh, it's in my Qadr.

Right.

So you get to... live that because the, what happened when the Quran came down, the sky got locked down, the shayateen, the jinns, the jinns didn't know what was going on and the world transformed, right? And what happens in Ramadan? you know, if you read the ayat about Laylatul Qadr and how angels are descending, and you read the ayat in Surah Al-Jinn where the angels are like, the sky is locked down, angels are everywhere, right? It's actually, there's a parallel going on between what's happening in Ramadan and what was happening in the seerah of the Prophet .

So I think that, I look at Ramadan as, I need to revolutionize or really truly transform who I am on the inside.

Truly, truly who I am on the inside with his words.

There's another writing also when Allah creates in the womb.

There's another writing that happens in Laylatul Qadr.

What Allah Azzawajal said about it, In it is decided every matter that is hakeem.

There's wisdom in that judgment of Allah Azzawajal.

So in Laylatul Qadr, there's another writing of whatever is gonna happen.

The decrees of Allah Azzawajal for the following year.

There's also, he said, the religious judgment.

It is nothing but forgiveness.

How many people are forgiven on Laylatul Qadr? How many people are forgiven in the month of Ramadan? How much mercy is descending upon us in the month of Ramadan.

And one of the things that allows for mercy to descend upon us is the lack of the barrier of sin.

So people are naturally in their best state and so Rahmah is descending upon them and the angels are capturing that and they're bringing down those declarations of forgiveness, those declarations of mercy as they are descending upon us.

So the faith is already there.

the scholars say this is intellectual this is spiritual this is emotional this is mental this is a level of iman that is added on that translates itself in every single domain of your life So what does that mean? After every Ramadan, as Ibn Al-Qayyim said, you should have more Yaqeen in Allah , more certainty in Allah , and greater Latha, greater pleasure in worshipping Him.

So with every Ramadan that passes, with every Laylatul Qadr experience that passes, are you more Muslim now than you were before? That's not an extreme jump.

Are you more of a believer now than you were before? Because you experienced something special.

It's a test, you know.

On the night of Qadr, work hard.

If you make a mistake, God will get angry with you.

God will hate you.

Everyone gives solutions, and you get hopeful.

You go forward, you come back in the same place.

10 years of Qadr goes, 10 Ramadan goes, 10 Muharram goes, everything's still the same.

With nemidoonam fighting oppression, years go by, years go by, solutions people offer, and you're like, "Hey, we're in the same place again.

So it was in Ramadan of that year when the prophet was in that cave in worship and contemplation alone, pure in belief and worshiping the Lord of the worlds alone, the great event took place, the event that changed the course of history, the event that changed humanity, the event that began Islam and transformed the Earth.

On that great day, and the stronger opinion is that it was the 27th night of Ramadan, because Umar ibn al-Khattab, Allah be pleased with him, used to swear in the presence of the Prophet Muhammad that Laylat al-Qadr, the night of glory, when the Quran was first revealed, was the 27th of Ramadan, and the Prophet, peace be upon him, would not deny him when he heard this.

Certainly, it was in Ramadan, because God tells us in the Quran, "Ramadan is the month in which the Quran was revealed." This is Surat al-Baqarah, ayah 185.

And certainly, it was in the last 10 nights, as the Prophet told us, and in the odd nights of Ramadan.

On that great night, Laylat al-Qadr, the night of glory, the Quran was revealed.

God the Almighty tells us in the Quran, in Surah 97, this is the entire Surah, "Indeed, it is We who sent this Quran down on the night of glory.

And what will make you realize what the night of glory is? The night of glory is better than a thousand months.

... encounter during that time.

And there's a night at the end called the Night of Power where there's a lot of dark and heavy stuff.

We've been in different countries when that's going on, and you just c- you kind of just feel, like, just this presence of evil around.

But they do, with fasting, same thing.