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In the name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful. All praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. And peace and blessings be upon the honor of the prophets and messengers. Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and upon his family and his companions, a very short peace. So what is this? Our brothers and sisters, Allah SWT told us about the Night of Al-Qadr. Allah SWT revealed a surah. Allah said, Allah SWT said, Which means, indeed, it is we who sent this Quran down on the Night of Al-Qadr, the Night of Glory. And what will make you realize what the Night of Al-Qadr is? And what will make you realize what the Night of Al-Qadr is? Allah SWT said, The Night of Glory is better than a thousand months. That night the angels and Jibri, peace be upon him, Descend by the permission of their Rabb for every decreed matter. It is all peace until the break of dawn. Nowadays, Al-Qadr, Allah SWT is telling us, what do you know? Understand this, realize this. What do you know about it? Meaning, understand and realize what a tremendous thing this is. To worship Allah SWT in the Night of Al-Qadr is more than, not equal and so, more than continuous worship for 83 and a half years, one thousand months. Continuous worship. Obviously, it goes without saying that nobody can possibly continuously worship for that period of time because obviously he would have, he would need this and so on and so forth. Now Allah SWT is giving us this as a gift. And this is the whole point of Ramadan. Ramadan comes as a gift. We have to recognize this as a gift. Now Allah SWT gives us lots of things, lots of freebies in Ramadan. Lots of upgrades. Now if you don’t take advantage of it, it shows us that either a person has no iman, has very little belief or no belief because he doesn’t take advantage of this. Or it’s just suicidal laziness because, you know, yeah, you have a belief, but you still don’t want to do what you need to do in order to benefit. So what can anybody say? So here Allah is saying this is one night. Now this night is in the last, you know, one of the odd nights in the last 10 days of Abadarul Kareem, last 10 nights. So that is why we need to be very focused and make sure that we don’t waste that night. Now, which is this night? Again, as I said, don’t fall into arguments. They asked the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He gave them signs. But very interestingly, he gave them signs of the morning after. He said the morning after, maybe there will be a little drizzle, some rain, maybe the sun will rise with the rays which are not harsh and so on. Now the question here is very simple. The question is, it still doesn’t tell me which night is Lailatul Khadr because if I really want to say I will pray on Lailatul Khadr, I should know before it happens. I should know the previous evening. So I know, OK, this night I’m going to do this. But if I know the following morning, the night is already gone. So imagine I spend the night in sincere worship and in the morning I see these signs. Alhamdulillah, I am very happy because that means I have been praying because that means I got this night of Lailatul Khadr. But if it’s the opposite, if I wasted this night and may Allah have mercy on me if I did something wrong in this night or just slept through the night, didn’t do anything and next morning I see all the signs that last night, the previous night had been Lailatul Khadr. I still don’t know for sure because we are interpreting signs. But the point I’m saying is what is the use of that because the night is wasted already. So the thing to do is, again, don’t get into arguments, don’t involve yourself in useless things. Focus on the nights. Focus on worshipping Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala as sincerely as possible in all the nights of the last 10 days of Ramadan. So by that way, we automatically get the night which is the odd night. Yaa Aska Allah wa lailatul khadr wa lakhbis bil khair wa l-afya wa sallallahu ala nabi’ al-kareem wa ala alihi wa sallim ala ajma’in bi rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu wa barakatuhu
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