The Victory of Islam — Page 27
H H A A D D R AT M IR Z A GHU L A M AH M AD R AT M IR Z A GHU L A M AH M AD 27 from Heaven during Lailatul-Qadr [the Night of Decree]. Every Mu s li h [Reformer] and Mujaddid [Renewer] who comes from God Almighty verily descends during Lailatul-Qadr. Do you understand what Lailatul-Qadr is? Lailatul-Qadr is the name of that age of darkness whose darkness reaches an extreme limit. For this reason, such an age inherently demands that a light descend to dispel the darkness. This period has been designated metaphor - ically as Lailatul-Qadr, but in reality it is not a night. It is an age that is akin to night on account of its darkness. When a thousand months elapse—the period that brings the span of a human life close to its end and heralds the departure of human senses—sub - sequent to the death of a Prophet or his spiritual successor, then this ‘night’ begins to establish itself. Then, the seeds of one or many Reformers are sown secretly by heavenly operation, which are prepared covertly to make their appearance at the head of the new century. Allah the Glorious alludes to this by saying: 1 ُةَلْيَل ِرْدَقْلا١ۙ۬ ٌرْيَخ ْنِّم ِفْلَا ٍرْهَش Meaning that: The one who beholds the light of this Lailatul-Qadr and attains the honour of being in the company of the Reformer of the age, is better than an old man of eighty years who did not experience that glorious period; and had he experienced even one moment of that period, then that one moment would have been better than those thousand months that had passed before. Why is it better? Because during this Lailatul-Qadr, the angels of God Almighty and the Holy Spirit descend from Heaven 1. S u rah al-Qadr, 97:4 [Publisher]