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The Night of Power [2] (Arabic: لیلة القدر, romanized: Laylat al-Qadr; also rendered as the Night of Destiny, [3] Night of Decree, [4] Night of Determination, or the Precious Night), is, in Islamic belief, the night when Muslims believe the Quran was first sent down from heaven to the world, and also the night when its first verses ...
The Night of Power (Arabic: لیلة القدر, romanized: Laylat al-Qadr), one of the last 10 nights of Ramadan, is the holiest night of the year. [citation needed] Conversely, the Day of Arafah, the day before Eid al-Adha, is the holiest day of the Islamic year. [citation needed]
Al-Qadr [1] (Arabic: القدر, "Power, Fate") is the 97th chapter of the Qur'an, with 5 āyāt or verses. It is a Meccan surah [ 2 ] which celebrates the night when the first revelation of what would become the Qur'an was sent down.
The first meaning that Qadr evokes is value. The second is fate. "Qudrat" comes from the same root and means Power. Qadr can rarely be used to mean power. In the traditional stories of the Night of Power, it is told that people's fate (good or bad) will be written this night, and they are asked to pray until the morning for the fate to be good.
(The name of the 97th surah of the Qur'an is known as Surat al-Qadr). Taqdeer Arabic : تقدیر also refers to predestination in Islam, the "absolute decree of the Divine", and comes from the same Q-D-R three consonant root, but is of a different "grammatical orders and thus not considered interchangeable" with Qadr. [ 16 ]
Laylat al-Jaiza or Night of Rewards is the night preceding the Eid al-Fitr.It has particular significance with the month of Ramadan and is to earn rewards for all the fasts and good deeds in this month.
Muslims and non-Muslims have four religious holidays each in addition to the seven secular national holidays. For the Muslims, nine major Islamic holidays: Ashura, Mawlid, Isra' and Mi'raj, Shab-e-Barat, first day of Ramadan, Revelation of the Quran, Laylat al-Qadr, Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha are observed.
On March 22, 2011, Amir Hamza, the leader of Pakistan's banned Islamic organization Lashkar-e-Taiba, issued a $2.2 million fatwa for anyone who kills pastor Terry Jones. [ 175 ] [ 176 ] On March 25, 2011, protests erupted in Pakistan , where the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam organized province-wide protests, including a road blockage and burnings of ...