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Laylatul Qadr Was On the 23rd Night | Taraweeh Reflections
Ibn Abbas (ra) saw a dream of someone telling him tonight is the night. Can we know the night through a premonition or dream?
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Before I talk about the night of the 23rd, I think that many of us have been following the images that have been coming out of Gaza, particularly today from the Ash-Shifa Hospital. And I want to remind you all that on this day, on the 23rd day of Ramadan, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala granted the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam Fatih Mecca, the victory of Mecca, the opening of Mecca. That was the 23rd day of Ramadan. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that as he gave the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam victory on the 23rd of Ramadan, that he give our brothers and sisters in Gaza victory. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that he continue to keep their feet firm, that he accept their shuhada, that he heal their wounded, and that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala show us a sign in the defeat and the humiliation of the oppressors. Allahumma ameen. Dear brothers and sisters, when we look at the narrations about the last 10 nights, there is actually no night other than the 27th night that has more emphasis within the literature of narrations of the last 10 than the 23rd night of Ramadan. And I want to talk about that for a moment because it is beautiful and it is powerful and it is significant. And I'll start with a narration from Abdullah ibn Abbas radiallahu ta'ala Anhuma, Muslim Imam Ahmed, where Ibn Abbas radiallahu anhuma describes himself in the masjid of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he says that he was overcome by sleep, so he dozed off. So if you get tired and you find yourself dozing off in these last 10 nights, don't feel too bad. That's actually part of your
ibadah, that's part of your struggle with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that you're trying to fight through and worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So he said that I dozed off in the masjid of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and then in my dream someone came to me and told me, inna layla laylatul qadr, tonight is laylatul qadr. So he said I woke up and he said I went to aknafi fulsatun nabi salallahu alayhi wa sallam, so the edge of the tent of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, because the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam had pitched the tent for himself in the masjid where he would do his i'tikaf, and I found the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam in salah, so I went quickly and I exerted myself in salah, and he said radhiallahu ta'ala anhuma that that was the 23rd night of Ramadan. Now I'm going to get back to that narration inshallah ta'ala in a bit. There's another narration from Ali ibn Abi Talib radhiallahu ta'ala anhu, indicating on another year that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam was walking with him and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned the appearance of the moon being like a plate, and he said salallahu alayhi wa sallam that that is a sign of laylatul qadr, and Ali radhiallahu anhu said that that came on the night of the 23rd. And then there's the narration of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radhiallahu ta'ala anhu, where he said that before the last ten the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, as he stood up and he gave everyone the admonition to keep themselves dedicated and devoted throughout these last ten nights, he said salallahu alayhi wa sallam that he has seen a dream that on that year of laylatul qadr that he was prostrating in the mud alayhi wa sallam, that he was making sujood and there was mud, meaning there was rain and he made sajda and there was mud on his face salallahu alayhi wa sallam. And that year when the 23rd night came, there wasn't a single cloud in the sky and then suddenly a cloud appeared over the masjid and it started to rain on them and the sahaba remembered the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam's face
covered in mud just as he said salallahu alayhi wa sallam while they too made their sujood in the mud with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and that was the 23rd night. So you won't find a night in the literature about when the last ten nights is after the 27th, that's more emphasized than the 23rd. So you'll find it being attributed to Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, Ibn Abbas saying the 23rd or the 27th to Aisha radiallahu anha to multiple companions and in fact that's one of the strongest indications that laylatul qadr does in fact change every year because if you were to take the narrations about the 27th night you would say it has to be the 27th night. And then if you were to take these narrations about the 23rd night where we have a definitive narration that laylatul qadr did indeed happen on the 23rd night, you would say it has to be the 23rd night. And so in that is one of the most definitive proofs in fact that they offset each other as many of the scholars say that it does change from year to year. And you don't know the odds from the evens and exert yourself. But here we are in the 23rd night asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Allah mawafiqna li laylatul qadr, oh Allah allow us to catch laylatul qadr and exerting ourselves on this night bithnillahi ta'ala and I start with this and those of you that will watch this after the 23rd night or you're in a different part of the world don't worry you still got more nights ahead of you. Those of you that are still here push yourself tonight because it was on the 23rd night in the time of the Prophet ﷺ and the narrations in fact indicate multiple times on the 23rd night in the life of the Messenger ﷺ. I wanted to just talk about the Ibn Abbas story though for a little bit. May Allah be pleased with him and his father. And that is that he had a dream. So is there something to where if
you have a premonition or you have a dream or you have an inclination that tonight must be the night. Is there some truth to that? Could you find yourself falling asleep and then Shaykh Yasir appears in your dream to tell you that it's tonight? Could it happen maybe I'll appear in your dream too. I hope for good reasons. Could it happen though that you have a dream and that there is a voice or you see something or you have such a strong feeling that tonight is Laylatul Qadr? Is that possible to the average person? Ibn Abbas is not a prophet by the way right? A great companion. None of us are on his level. He's Habrul Ummah. He's a scholar of the Ummah. But could it happen to the average person? Yeah sure there could be an inclination. There could be a premonition. There could be a feeling that tonight was a very special night. Now here's the thing and this is something that's very important and it coincides with what we've been covering in Ad-Dawah. You are up at night saying Allahumma innaka'afu wa intuhibbu al-'afwa fa'afu annih. Multiple times. Every one of these last ten nights inshallah. Oh Allah you love to forgive. You are the forgiver. You love to forgive so forgive me. You're pushing yourself the way that you don't push yourself any other time of the year. Could the night that you are written down from Al-Utaqa from those that are freed from the fire be different from the night of Laylatul Qadr? Yes. Every one of these precious nights of Ramadan Allah Azawajal has a list that comes out of Al-Utaqa for the evening. Those who have freed their necks from the fire may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala make us all amongst the Al-Utaqa Allahumma ameen. Every night there are those that are forgiven and redeemed. It could be that the night of your redemption is not the night of Laylatul Qadr only. That that could happen to you on another night
of Laylatul Qadr. And so I say that to say that let's say that it lines up with the twenty-third or the twenty-fifth or the twenty-seventh and subhanAllah you go all out and you feel incredible and you even see signs of your forgiveness somehow. And you wake up and you look at the sun and the sun has no rays and you feel like the night was as peaceful and as beautiful as ever. It doesn't mean it was Laylatul Qadr. It doesn't necessarily mean it was Laylatul Qadr. And even if there was still of course a five percent chance you push yourself to the next nights, the next nights, the next nights. You see there is nothing actually and this is actually one of the greatest things from the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ. I know some of this is repetitive but فَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّا ذِكْرَةً فَعَلْ مُؤْمِنِينَ It's a reminder. You never find that the Prophet ﷺ said alright we caught it this year so let's wrap it up. If it happened multiple times on the twenty-third night so what are we still looking for, for the last seven nights? If they already knew it happened, he still stayed in i'tikaf ﷺ. He still worshipped Allah ﷻ as diligently. So even if you knew a hundred percent and we will not know a hundred percent, even if Shaykh Yasir comes in your dream, you might just feel it, he might just be waking you up in the masjid and saying get up, get up and pray now. But no matter what, even if you are a hundred percent sure you saw a dream and an angel came to you and said this is Laylatul Qadr, even then you don't wrap it up. What blessed nights we have and you know subhanAllah we often look at it and we say Allah ﷻ is so merciful that he only gave us ten nights to aim for. Like you know that if you are going hard in all ten of these nights you will catch Laylatul Qadr. But you know what else? If Allah ﷻ gave us the exact night every single year and this is the night, the other nine nights of ibadah and worship
and forgiveness and mercy that descend upon us would not be given to us. So you know what the other nine nights are also a gift from Allah ﷻ. We thank Allah ﷻ for the month of Ramadan. We thank Allah ﷻ and we praise him for all of these nights. We ask Allah ﷻ to allow us to be amongst those that are forgiven and we ask Allah ﷻ to allow us to be amongst those that catch Laylatul Qadr and we ask Allah ﷻ to guide us to the ways that are pleasing to him throughout the year and we ask Allah ﷻ to grant victory to our brothers and sisters in Gaza. We ask Allah ﷻ that just as we seek miracles in our lives that he show us a miracle in regards to our brothers and sisters in Gaza. We ask Allah ﷻ that he empower all of the mustada'afin wherever they are, the oppressed ones wherever they are in this month of victory that Allah ﷻ grant victory to our ummah. For more information visit www.fema.org
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