Transliteration:( Lailatul qadri khairum min alfee shahr )
2. It means O believer! What do you know what type of night is the Night of Qadr? It cannot be described in its actual state. Or, O My Beloved! You did not understand the Night of Qadr out of your personal conjecture but you came to know of its lofty status and power through the revelation. In short, this does not necessarily mean that the Holy Prophet is not fully aware of the virtues of the Night of Power.
.By Qadr is meant Honour: "And they esteemed not Allah as was due to Him"(S39:V67).Or, Estimation: "And We do not send it down but with a known measure" (S15:V21).Or, to straiten: "But when He tries him and straitens his livelihood" (S89:V16). This night is called the Night of Power because it is the night of great honour. Or,in it the entire year's list of the things to happen and their measurements are distributed to the angels, and all kinds of angels are informed of the measurements and estimates of their deeds.Or, in this night so many angels descend upon the earth that it becomes straitened and too small. This night is probably the 27th night of Ramadan because here the verse "The Night of Power" is mentioned at 2 three places. Since LAILATUL QADR consists of nine letters 9x3=27. Furthermore, this Surah contains thirty words and the word "it" is the 27th word. Therefore 3 means the complete Night of Power, from sunset until dawn.
This night is absolutely greater than these thousand months, which are bereft of the Night of Qadr. Thus, there is no objection that can be raised against this verse. Since the Holy Prophet mentioned thousand months concerning the worship of the Israelite Shamsoon, Allah Almighty too had mentioned about him, and not about centuries and years. Here, a thousand months refers to a long period. In Arabic there no counting in excess of thousand, therefore thousand has been mentioned. It should be remembered by "better '' meant either the nearness or high esteem of the night or that the worship of this night is better in reward than a thousand months.
From this verse emerge two d benefits:
1. The connection with sacred things is extremely beneficial as the excellence of the Night of Power is due to its connection with the Holy Quran. The dog of the Companions of the Cave gained eternal respect due to its link with these pious sages. at
2. The Holy Quran is superior to all the other heavenly revealed books because of the date of revelation of Taurat and Injeel did not receive this greatness. (Jibraeel) descends in it by the Command of their Lord, for every affair.
3. It means that during the Night of Qadr from a the time of sunset until dawn all the favourite angels, or the countless worshipping angels of Sidrah and Hazrat Jibraeel -Roohul Ameen, the Spirit of Allah, Hazrat Isa (On whom be peace), or the soul of Muhammad or the special spiritual groups of angels, or that angel called Rooh who speaks countless languages, through which he recites the praises of Allah Almighty in various languages and on this night offers prayer of forgiveness in every language for the believers and who specially descends in mosques and the homes of believers and those engaged in the worship of Allah Almighty in this night(Tafseer Roohul Mu'ani, etc) so that instead of engaging themselves in worship at Sidrah tonight, they join the believers in the worship on earth and repeat Ameen at the duas of the Muslims. In addition, these angels could obtain bounties from the pious believers, and that they could obtain the bounties of this night (Tafseer Azizi).
From this verse emerge a few issues:
1. The earth is superior to heaven because the favourite angels on this night descend on the earth to obtain the nearness of Allah Almighty. Observe, Hazrat Jibraeel (On whom be peace) would go to Madina Munawwarah to offer prayers (Hadith Shareef).
2. In the proximity of the pious, prayers and worship have a greater chance of acceptance as these angels come here at the graves of Prophets and Saints to offer their worship. When the Israelites decided to repent, they were Ordered to go to Jerusalem to offer their prostration, and to seek repentance there, as it will be accepted (Holy Quran).
3. The Night of Power, etc. and the bounties e of these exalted times descend on the earth in abundance and the angels come here to obtain these.
4. Some angels only remain in the heavens, some only on earth, but some come in the heavens and the earth day and night, some angels are those who descend on the earth during the Night of Qadr.
5. Although the entire night of Qadr is superior in excellence, its latter part is greater in excellence because during that time all the angels assemble together, although they descend prior to this.
6. Although Hazrat Isa (On whom be peace)) in the fourth heaven and the blessed soul of Holy Prophet is at the the lofty place called ILLEYEEN, but they are observing the entire world from there, but on sacred times like the Night of Qadr they come d to the earth to observe the affairs of the entire world as is understood from the commentary of of the Rooh (soul) as provided in No's 4 and 5.
The tafsir of Surah Qadr verse 3 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Qadr ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 5.
(97:3) The Night of Power is better than a thousand months.[2]
2. The commentators in general have understood this to mean that the good acts performed in this night are superior in value to the good acts of a thousand months in which Lailat-ul-qadr is not included. There is no doubt that this is in itself correct and the Prophet (peace be upon him) has described great excellences and virtues of the good acts and devotions of this night. According to a tradition related in Bukhari and Muslim, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: The one who remained standing in worship in the state of belief and for the sake of rewards from Allah during Lailat-ul-qadr, would have all his previous sins forgiven. And in Musnad Ahmad, there is a tradition from Ubadah bin as-Samit, saying that the Prophet said: Lailat-ut-qadr is among the last ten nights of Ramadan. The one who stood up in worship in order to take advantage of their rewards, Allah will forgive all his former and latter sins. But, the verse does not say: To act righteously in Lailat-ul-qadr is better than acting righteously in a thousand months, but it says: Lailat-ul-qadr is better than a thousand months. And a thousand months also does not imply 83 years and 4 months exactly, but a very long period of time as a thousand denoted among the Arabs. Therefore, the verse means that in this one night a task was accomplished for the welfare of mankind the like of which had not been accomplished even during an indefinitely long period of history.
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