#laylatulqadr

[inkandmusk]

Ibn Rajab رحمه الله said:

يا من ضاع عمره لا شيء استدرك ما فاتك في ليلة القدر فإنها تحسب بالعمر.

O you who have wasted your life, nothing can make up for what you’ve lost except the Night of Decree (Laylatul Qadr), for indeed, its value is equal to a lifetime.

(191)كتاب لطائف المعارف فيما لمواسم العام من الوظائف - ط ابن حزم

[lostshepherd1]

Allahummaj 'al khayra 'umury aakhirahu,

wa khayra 'amaly khawatimahu, waj-'al ayyami yawma alqaka

“Oh Allah, make the best part of my life the end of it. And make the best of my deeds be my final actions. And make the best of my days be the Day in which I get to meet You”

[greyscale-dunya]

If you are from this Ummah, then these ten nights are your opportunity. This is not just about personal worship it is about preparing yourself to serve Allah’s cause. If you are a man, ask Allah to make you a pillar of strength for His deen. Pray for guidance, wisdom, and the ability to act when the Ummah needs you. Strengthen your body, discipline your soul, and purify your heart.

If you are a woman, make these nights your foundation. Ask Allah to make you a source of strength for this Ummah, to grant you the honor of raising men like the Sahaba, women like the great believers of the past. This Ummah needs mothers who instill courage, faith, and knowledge in their children. Pray that your womb carries those who will defend Islam, and that your heart carries the resolve to raise them upon the truth.

The Ummah is humiliated, and the world is burning in darkness. You already know what kind of du’as we need to make. Pray for victory, for justice, for the return of honor to this Ummah. Pray for strength to bear the trials ahead. These ten nights are not for empty worship but for transformation. Make use of them before they slip away.

[zaurae]

𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐬/𝐃𝐮𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐥 𝐐𝐚𝐝𝐫

Allahumma innaka afuwwun tuhibul afwa fa fu anni "O Allah, Indeed You are the most forgiving, and You love to forgive, so forgive me". Let this beautiful dua be moist on the tongue! (Recite it 100 times)

Allahumma innee aUthu bika min salaatin laa tanfa'U "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from a prayer that is of no benefit".

Allahumma inni as'aluka taubatan qabla al-mauti, wa raahatan indal mauti, wa rahmatan ba'adal mauti, wal afwa indal hisaabu "O Allah, I ask You for Repentance before death and comfort during death, and Mercy after death, and Pardon during the day of account"

Send peace and blessings to our Prophet Muhammed Sallallahu alaihi wasallam and every other Prophet, and their loved ones!

May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala accept our fasting, good deeds, worship, and forgive us for our sins, mistakes, and forgetfulness! May we exit Ramadan full of imaan and be able to keep it that way until next years Ramadan!

[majhzl]

We are now entering the final 10 nights of Ramadan - the best nights of the whole year. If you feel like you haven’t done your best earlier in the month, or if you started strong but lost momentum in the middle, then now is the time to pick up the pace and give it your all.

[nooral-fajr]

May Allah grant us the blessing of witnessing Laylatul Qadr, and may we be among those who receive its boundless rewards 🤲🏼✨

ig: @nooral_fajr

[sarahh-here]

As we're stepping into 10 BLESSED NIGHTS OF RAMADAN , Here's 10 simple deeds that'll earn us so much reward, InnShaAllah ❤️✨

Save and share with others.

﴿وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَىٰ تَنفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ﴾

And remind, for indeed, the reminder benefits the believers.

(51:55)

[ukhtii]

O Allah, grant our parents a place among the people of Jannah, fill their graves with light and mercy, and elevate their ranks in the Hereafter. Forgive their shortcomings, shower them with Your endless blessings, and reunite us with them in the highest ranks of Paradise. آمين.

[mdunis67]

[laughter-of-the-rose]

The coming of Laylat al-Qadr

It has been a blessing for me that this is the first year since the birth of my son that I have been able to attend taraweeh at the mosque. Alhamdulillah, moving back into my family home rather than attempting to stubbornly survive on my own has been a massive boon to my religious productivity. It just so happens that by the time I get home from the mosque and have a small snack there are only three hours between then and sehri. So I figured it won't be much of an inconvenience at all to stay up those few hours in worship.

This said, three hours can go very quickly and/or feel very difficult if I don't prepare beforehand exactly what ibadah I intend to achieve. So I started making a list and it occurred to me that perhaps I should share it with others to, inshallah, inspire them also.

So here goes:

Give something in charity

Read the 14 supplications of prostration

Salat al-tawbah

Personal duas

Istighfar

Recite any/all known surahs

Surah ikhlas x10

And I think that should likely take up about three hours give or take.

I'd like to also expand on the reasoning for some of these that may be lesser known.

Supplications of prostration This is also known as Sajdat al-Tilawa and is an obligatory sujud when specific verses of the Qur'an are heard or recited. The specifics vary by school of thought but in Hanafi jurisprudence there are 14. In the book the Ascent to Felicity by Abu 'l-Ikhlas al-Shurunbulali he goes further to state that

"Imam Nasafi and others have stated, "If one recites all fourteen verses of prostration in one sitting, and performs a separate prostration for each verse, then Allah Most High will take care of all his worries [in both this life and the next]."

Salat al-tawbah The prayer of forgiveness is one that is agreed across all scholars and is two rakats nafl that can be prayed at any time. However, considering the following hadith:

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever repents before the sun rises from the west, Allah will accept his repentance.” (Narrated by Muslim, 2703)

and the significance of Laylat al-Qadr I think this becomes a pretty good time to read it!

Surah Ikhlas x10

Abu Huraira reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever recites ten times, ‘Say: He is Allah, the One,’ a palace will be built for him in Paradise. Whoever recites it twenty times, two palaces will be built for him. Whoever recites it thirty times, three palaces will be built for him.”

So that's a nice one to add between other ibadah of the night to give some variety.

May Allah grant all of the prayers of all who have read this and of the entire muslim ummah on these next ten days. May Allah ease the hardship of the people of Palestine and anywhere else that oppression of any kind, at a large scale or a small scale, is taking place.

If I've said anything good then alhamdulillah, it is from His swt wisdom and if I've said anything incorrect do tell me so I can correct as necessary. And if you've found anything useful in this post please remember me in your duas, jazakallah.

[fluffy-appa]

Laylatul Qadr is coming. Inshaa Allah.

May Allah make us among those who will

witness that day 🌙

[mindofserenity]

Laylat al-Qadr لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْر‎

Accept the things you have no control over. Accept the truth that you are not the writer. Remember that Qadr is written from the hands of something greater.

— mindofserenity

[lilacmuse]

The Interlude

On the Night of Power, God introduced me to my own soul in a way i had never experienced before. That night was beyond anything i could've ever imagined or asked for. I can't put it into words yet- maybe i never fully will- but i want to, because i want you to know that this is possible; that if a sinner like me could be met with such profound, abounding grace, there is nothing but mercy and hope for any soul that humbly, sincerely wills to seek it. In acquainting me with a glimpse of myself as He has known me, my acquaintance with my Beloved deepened, and for a few sacred breaths of time, i tasted His mercy as i had never understood or tasted it before. That night, i became so awash in love, i didn't know anything but Him anymore. In the moments and hours since, i have spent so many beautiful, cherished moments with so many people i love, but my heart is like a grain of sand, still suspended within the hourglass of that sacred night and the beauty He briefly unveiled for just the few moments of time that my finite consciousness could bear it.

In the quiet moments of reunion that marked a deepening of our love, i suddenly understood how a single night might surpass a thousand months. A thousand months is equal to roughly one human lifetime, and in the amount of time it took to recite two surahs that night, God somehow took me back through every chapter of the trajectory of my journey toward Him- not through my limited eyes, but from a perspective i had never seen or considered before, because my mind could never have independently fathomed or contained such a comprehensive, complete awareness of the entirety of what my soul has experienced. It was as if my soul were a homeland that i had never truly entered or explored, and for a few moments, God wanted me to venture through its highest peaks and lowest valleys- to know myself beyond the enduring limitations of my doubts and fears.

Every emotion, every question, every struggle, every loss, every moment of yearning for Him through murmurs of darkness and flickers of illumination and beauty- i, who remember so very little, suddenly remembered everything- and saw it in a way i had never been able to see it before. For those quiet, blissful moments, enwrapped in the beauty of the verses of His revelation, i met myself as if for the first time... and the meeting was so kind, and so profoundly full of love. And in the strangest yet clearest way, my Beloved answered the question i have been desperately asking since my earliest memories of consciousness: could You love me, even in my limitedness, even in my forgetfulness, my negligence, my rebelliousness, my sin?

As He took me through each line of the story of my soul, i saw it so clearly that i couldn't deny it anymore. For at least those moments, for at least that night- He has never done anything but love me. Every atom of my being, every moment of my existence, has been perfumed by His love to a degree that would shatter the limitations of any created consciousness. This realization was so overwhelming, an ocean of tears flowed uncontrollably down my cheeks. As i wept, i wasn't experiencing a single discernible emotion or conscious thought; whatever was unfolding was occurring in a place beyond all notions of feeling and conception. If i had to give it a name, the only possible word is Love. My eyes wept, not out of sadness, fear, or sorrow, but simply as a consequence of the overflow of my heart, and its sheer inability to bear the beauty of what it was being shown.

As we recited Jawshan al Kabir, my tears flowed uncontrollably again, but this wave was a product of awe... moment after moment of breathless, quiet astonishment that made me feel both dizzy and vividly alive. It is not within the capacity of any created being to be able to bear the greatness of the Creator. But as we taste these fleeting, finite moments of His praises- and each line electrifies the soul as it awakens to the words that so perfectly articulate its deepest purpose and convey its innermost longings- we suddenly know the sweetness of His proximity, and even the slightest taste is enough to leave us permanently intoxicated.

We ended with my ultimate weakness: Dua Abu Hamza. I am not certain i will ever be strong enough to bear the full weight of that sacred supplication; i'm convinced that if we were to truly understand even a single line of it- while remembering the masaib of the beautiful man who had the audacity to utter these soul-crushing words- i don't think our hearts could possibly continue beating. Whenever i hear or recite Dua Abu Hamza, i have to disconnect, because my heart can't take it. Of all possible expressions of humility, of tenderness, of God-consciousness, of ma'rifah, of love- i'm not sure anything could ever rival what Imam Sajjad (as) has conveyed for us in these lines. They begin by shattering the arrogant, stone-like heart of every sinner, then mend it through the honey-like sweetness of pure, unadulterated reunion and 'ishq.

I feel shy to commit any of these experiences to writing, because i understand that esoteric words like these are anathema to many- if you can't rationalize, define, or control it, you might reflexively fear and criticize anything that falls within the realm of the mystical. And i understand- my mind is not that different from yours; i too often cling to the familiar paradise of thought and reason, fearing the enormity and mystery of what i might find at any distance from that safe harbor. But safety is an illusion, as is control, as is our ability to conceptualize and understand and perceive anything- our faculties are only as powerful as our Creator wills them to be, but will never be any match for what actually is. And there are realms of understanding that our finite minds have no hope of reaching, except when He wills us to venture into those distant hinterlands, because there is always something critical we won't be able to see until He gives us the basirah to see it.

x r

[themostuninterestingperson]

[islamic-reminders]

Stay focused on the Last Ten Days of Ramadan, brothers and sisters.

Stay away from unislamic issues.

Let’s not copy them.

#Allah #Quran #Islam #Ramadan #LaylatulQadr #NightifPower #Muslims

[nooral-fajr]

May Allah allow us to reach Laylatul Qadr and make the most of these blessed nights 🤲🏼✨

ig: @nooral_fajr