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Since that time, Muslims have regarded the last ten nights of Ramadan as being especially blessed. Muslims believe the Night comes again every year, with blessings and mercy of God in abundance. [6] The surah al-Qadr is named after this night, and the purpose of the surah is to describe the greatness of the night. [7]
Laylat al-Qadr: 21, 23, 25, 27, or 29 Ramaḍān [h] Chaand Raat [i] 29 or 30 Ramaḍān [j] Eid al-Fitr: 1 Shawwāl: 30 March 2025 Hajj: 8–13 Dhū al-Ḥijja Day ...
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 ]
Between 2001 and 2008, Jones served as the part-time pastor of the Gainesville, Florida church Dove World Outreach, frequently traveling back and forth between Germany and the United States. [ 7 ] [ 12 ] Jones assumed full-time duties at Dove World Outreach in 2008 after leaving the German church. [ 7 ]
The Islamic calendar is a lunar one, where each month begins when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. The Islamic year consists of 12 lunar cycles, and consequently it is 10 to 11 days shorter than the solar year, and as it contains no intercalation, [a] Ramadan migrates throughout the seasons.
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.