Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Laylat al-Qadr

The lights in Laylat al-Qadr do not come through the walls of your house, but rather radiate from your Qur’ānic actions and salawāt, penetrating unhampered through all walls and barriers, so that the ayāt return to their Revealer, i.e., ascends with your spirit,so that it becomes like the Burāq with which the Prophet ascended to Allah. Your spirit becomes the medium of connection between Allah Most High and your body, which you have made pure and whole (Sālih) with your righteous actions according to that Qur’ān... a comprehensive action, sincere for His Countenance.And there remains no obstacle in (your act) that would prevent any connection from occurring. It is as if your body, through it acting according to the Qur’ān, became another Qur’ān, and that in this process the Qur’ān became two Qur’āns (i.e., the revealed Qur’ān, and you, who have acted according to it until you became like its mirror), so that the Qur’ān became “doubled” or “doubly repeated” (mathāni).

Marifah: Shaykh Ibrahim Muhammad al-Batawi, Laylat al-Qadr

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