Muslims believe that the Lord has concealed the exact date of the Night of Power so they would worship Him fervently during the whole month of Ramadan. It was reported that the Prophet Muhammad said:<\/p>\n

\u201cSeek it on the odd nights of the last ten days of Ramadan.<\/strong>\u201d (Al-Bukhari, 202)<\/p>\n

What Muslims Do on Laylat Al-Qadr<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Muslims are encouraged to seek this night and spend it diligently in devotion including performing voluntary salah<\/em> (ritual Prayer), reciting Qur\u2019an, and supplicating. The Prophet Muhammad said:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe who spends the night in prayers on the Night of Power as a sign of his devotion and seeking rewards from Allah, his previous sins will be forgiven.<\/strong>\u201d (Al-Bukhari, 2014)<\/p>\n

For Muslims, it is a glorious night in which angels ascend while others descend, with their Lord\u2019s permission, saluting those who worship Allah on that night, and bringing with them a wish of safety and peace.<\/p>\n

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Taken with slight editorial modifications from onislam.net.<\/em><\/p>\n

Magda Azzam<\/em><\/strong>: a Muslim writer from Egypt. She worked for IslamOnline.net as an editor, Discover Islam Dept.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some Islamic scholars have said that the complete Qur\u2019an was sent down from the Preserved Tablet (Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz) in the night of Al-Qadr to the House of Glory (Bayt Al-`Izzah) in the lowest heaven, from whence it was revealed piecemeal to the Prophet Muhammad according to events that took place during his life over a period of twenty-three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[494,7,498,504,341,4321,501,335,2344,507,17956],"class_list":["post-30468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-truth-seeker","tag-allah","tag-featured","tag-god","tag-hadith","tag-islam","tag-laylat-al-qadr","tag-muhammad","tag-quran","tag-ramadan","tag-sunnah","tag-the-night-of-power-oh-what-a-night"],"yoast_head":"\n