There are observances of certain rituals in the last 10 nights of Ramadan fasting around the traditional Muslims as well as progressive Muslims who claim themselves that they have taken responsibility to spread the true Islam based on the message/reminder, the mathematical coding of Quran delivered by God’s messenger of the covenant like the mullahs and the so called Islamic scholars/organizations around the globe, while there is no such thing in our God given religion supported by the Quran. However, Ramadan is a blessed month for giving the Quran as a guidance for mankind, which we should study, even meditate with it during the month being the best time for us so that we know our guidance to perfect our beliefs and practices as well as to do the righteous deeds towards a path of our Lord avoiding misconceptions and unauthorized practices introduced by the Satan and its allies.
Let us see what God has ordered us in the Quran so that we can guide ourselves to a path of our Lord disregarding innovations that surround us to make us losers in the Hereafter for accepting order from other than Him being a satanic trick to deceive us as the Satan and its allies are enemies to humans:
Direction for the prophet to study the Quran and to meditate with it
- God has asked His prophet to intensify his study of the Quran in the dawn as well as in the night as much he can, even to meditate with it in the night to earn extra reward to raise his rank with Him along with establishing the salat prayer at specified times and paying the zakat in regular manner. He also expect that those who have believed with His prophet will do that as well:
[17:78] You (Muhammad) shall establish the salat prayer at declining of the sun towards darkness of the night and Quran at the dawn, indeed, (reciting) Quran at the dawn has been a witnessed.
[17:79] And of the night that you shall meditate with it (Quran) as extra for you (Muhammad), it may have been that your Lord may raise you to a position be praised.
Note: God asked His prophet to establish the salat prayer at specified times and to read the Quran at the dawn as well as to meditate with it in the night for extra reward to be raised him to a higher rank with Him.
[73:1] O you the cloaked one (prophet).
[73:2] You shall awake the night except for a little.
[73:3] Half of it, or you shall lessen a little from it.
[73:4] Or you shall add to it, and shall recite the Quran a progressive recitation.
[73:8] And you (prophet) shall remember name of your Lord and shall devote to Him a sincere devotion.
[73:20] Your (prophet) Lord knows that you may awake less than two thirds of the night, and half of it, and one third of it, as well as a group of those who are with yourself (prophet). And God has designed the night and the day. He has known that you cannot keep it up, so He has turned to you that you shall read what has been easy of the Quran. He has known that there will be sick among you, and others may travel in the land seeking of God’s bounty, and others may fight in God’s way. So you shall read what has been easy of it, and shall establish the salat prayer and shall give the zakat and shall loan God a good loan. And whatever of good you send forth for yourselves, you will find it with God, it will be better and greater reward. And you shall seek God’s forgiveness; indeed, God is Forgiving, Merciful.
Note: God advised His prophet to read the Quran as much as he can in every night being awake in the night, what is given to him like his garment in metaphor being the Quran to better understand and to have thorough knowledge of it, and the night has been the best time for him to do that, and also those who have believed with him if they can do it as well, while it is a duty for all of us to establish the salat prayer, and to pay the zakat, and to loan God a good loan, and to seek His forgiveness.
The above 8 verses across 2 surahs of the Quran through which God has advised the prophet as well as the believers to read the Quran and to meditate with it at the dawn and the night has a mathematical confirmation if the relevant surah and verse number are added, the sum is a multiple of 19 => 285 (19x15) as detailed in the table below:
Note: This mathematical confirmation may encourage us to make efforts to study the Quran at the dawn and night as well as to meditate with it at the night being the best time for us.
The Quran all at once has been sent down on the night of 27th of Ramadan
- The Quran has been down on earth, even before the entire Quran was recited to the people but in prophet’s soul being inspired by God Himself, and it has been sent down on the night of 27th of Ramadan in 13H (609 A.D). He has told us that It was a night-long process to complete it by involving the Gabriel and angels to warn us making clear every wise matter in the night, The day has a reference in 97:1 to be on the night of 27th and the month to be Ramadan in 2:185, while the history tells the year when the event occurred as the prophet was concern of it. Thus, a night of the Power is a historical event but not a recurrent event except innovation as God has done a great work in the past giving us the Quran as a guidance and statute book with the clear proofs, while He has asked us to appreciate Him for giving us it to guide us to His path:
[97:1] Indeed, we have sent down it (Quran) in a Night of the Power.
[97:2] And what has made you know that a Night of the Power is?.
[97:3] A Night of the Power is better than a thousand-month.
[97:4] There descends the angels and the Spirit in it (a Night of the Power) by permission of their Lord with every command.
[97:5] Peace it (a Night of the Power) is until an advent of the dawn.
Note: The surah consists of 30 words, and in the phrase, “laylat al-qadr” consisting of 9 letters repeated 3 times being 9 x 3 is 27, and the position of its pronoun, hiya is 27th out of 30 words in the surah is a proof that the Quran has been sent down on the night of 27th of the month in which it has been sent down, while the night has been called a night which is better than thousand month. In addition, there is also a fact around us that out of 5 surahs, al-Qadr is the only surah that the entire surah has participated in the mathematical confirmation of sending down of the Quran all at once.
[44:3] Indeed, we have sent down it (Quran) in a night of blessing; indeed, we have been warners.
[44:4] In it (a night of blessing), every wise matter is made clear.
Note: The night has also been called a night of blessing in which every wise matter is made clear, indicating that the direction and instruction in the Quran what we do and how to do has come down, even before reciting it to the people by the prophet over the period of time about 23 years (17:106).
[2:185] Ramadan which is a month has been sent down in it the Quran as a guidance for mankind and clear proofs of the guidance and the statute book. So, whoever has witnessed the month from you, then he should fast in it and whoever has been sick or on a journey, then a specified number from other days. God does intend the ease for you and He does not intend the hardship for you, and that you may complete the specified number; and that you may glorify God through which He has guided you, and that you may appreciate.
Note: God has inspired the entire Quran in the ultimate point into prophet’s soul (53:10) and has sent down it in the month of Ramadan as guidance for the people and the statute book with clear proofs and has ordered them to fast in it and to glorify Him with it to appreciate Him to give them the guidance.
Now, we know from the two verses, 2:185 and 97:1 that the Quran has been sent down on the night in the month of Ramadan, and the relationship between these two verses can be established having a fact if the surah and number of the verse, 97:1 that tells about the night, and the surah and verse number of the verse, 2:185 that tells about the month are added, the sum is a multiple of 19 => [97 + 1 + 2 + 185] = 98 + 187 = 285 (19X15) leaving no room to doubt that the Quran has been sent down on the night of Ramadan, while the night of 27th is also a fact derived from the occurrences of the phrase, laylat al-qadr and the position of its pronoun, hiya in the surah al-Qadr that gives us the details on the completion of the night long process of sending down of Quran involving the angels and the Gabriel. Thus, the Quran has been sent down on the night of 27th of Ramadan in 13 B.H (609 A.D) as it has been inspiration of the Quran all at once into the prophet’s soul in the past, and what may help us to better understand the event to be aware that the sending down of the Quran took place in 2 different methods: (1) the Quran all at once was placed by God Himself into the prophet’s soul on the night of 27th of Ramadan (97:1, 2:185) in 13 B.H (609 A.D) and (2) afterwards the Holy Spirit (the Gabriel) came down with the Quran piece by piece to gradually release it from the prophet’s soul to his memory (heart) to recite it to the people over the period of time (2:97, 17:106).
The verses that may be misinterpreted to introduce what God has not ordered
We are not sure when and how the concept of observance of the last 10 days/nights of Ramadan is introduced in the practices of Islam but the misinterpretation of the following verses is possible and is found to bring into account to invent this when the people were not able to ascertain what is the night of 27th about, they just found the night very significant instead of focusing on the night being special for the event of sending down of the Quran all at once on the night clarifying every wise matter in it, while the Satan and its allies have diverted their attention from the Quran to the night to disobey God:
[97:3] A Night of the Power is better than a thousand-month.
[97:4] There descends the angels and the Spirit in it (a Night of the Power) by permission of their Lord with every command.
[97:5] Peace it (a Night of the Poer) is until an advent of the dawn.
Note: The above verses from the surah that talks about the night the Quran has been sent down may confuse many of us as the surah starts with the perfect tense but ends with the present tense to highlight certain aspects of the event involving the Gabriel and the angels to be an recurrent event. However, it is a pattern that can be found in other statements in the Quran could not help them to prevent from interpreting the historical event of sending down of Quran cannot be a recurrent event.
[2:187] Permitted for you is the approach to your wives at nights of the fasting. They are garments for you and you are garments for them. God knows that you had done to deceive yourselves, so, He has turned to you and has pardoned from you. So, now you shall have relation with them and shall seek what God has prescribed for you. You shall eat and drink until the white thread becomes distinct to you from the black thread at the dawn. Then, you shall complete the fasting till the night. And do not have relation (sex) with them (your wives), while you are secluding in the masjids. That is of God’s limits, so, do not approach to it. Thus that God makes clear His revelations for the people so that they may be righteous.
Note: Sexual relation has been permitted in the nights of Ramadan fasting, which was prohibited in the past, except for those who are secluding in the masjids, which is a limit from God for the believers not to violate it. When there is no specific mention of the last 10 days/nights of the Ramadan in the limitation, then the limitation is imposed for the entire month of Ramadan, the month of fasting to appreciate God for giving us the Quran as a guidance for mankind and a statute book with proofs of the guidance, in which He has made clear of His revelations for us so that we may be righteous.
Conclusion
This review gives us details with proofs that the Quran all at once has been sent down on the night of 27th of Ramadan and the night has been very significant for the great work of God. So He has called the night to be a night of Power, and a night of Blessing, and a night better than thousand months in which every wise matter was clarified. For this great night in the month of Ramadan what God has decreed for us is fasting during the entire month to appreciate Him for giving us guidance. Even He has not decreed any other ritual around the night and the month except fasting during the entire month, but the people have invented many rituals around the night and the month not reflecting to what God has ordered us. Since the night and the month are about the sending down of the Quran as a guidance clarifying every wise matter, He wants His believers to know the guidance that they can follow it, and the month in which He has sent down it may be the best time for many of us to study and meditate with it to have thorough knowledge of it to perfect our beliefs and practices as well as to know what He has ordered us to do to lead to a path of our Lord if not we can do it at every dawn and night.
In fact, since the order of God given in the Quran around the night and the month is not clear to the people, even it is very straightforward, they came up with a dozen of misconceptions and unauthorized practices being emotional or listening to a people who are doing business with the religion, even misinterpreting/hiding many clear commands in the Quran expecting extra reward from God. Thus, they have invented rituals around the last 10 days/nights of Ramadan we fast, while God has made every night in it equally important for the believers that they may study the Quran and meditate with it individually or in a group even staying in the masjids if they plan to do that to have thorough knowledge of the Quran. But it is unfortunate to mention that a historical event like the sending down of the Quran on the night of 27th of Ramadan in 13 B.H (609 A.D) has become a recurrent event to a people living in the 21st century who are witnesses of many surprising advancements in the history of human civilization. However, we do not see any order from God that He has specified ritual(s) for the last 10 days/nights of Ramadan making them special for us or has asked us to look for a night of the Power in those days, except the Satan has inspired us to invent such thing to disobey God to make us losers.
Peaceful Friday, salaam and God bless.
Tafazzal (04/05/2024).