Al-Qadr (sura)

Al -Qadr (Arabic: سورة القدر, determination ') is the 97th sura of the Qur'an. It is a Meccan sura that consists of just five verses. According to the traditional view it is about the night in which the Qur'an was sent down. This should be done in the month of Ramadan, see Lailatu 'l- Qadr.

According to Islamic tradition, the recitation of this surah is equal rewarded by God, as if the reader had the month of Ramadan fasted and spent Lailatu 'l- Qadr with church services.

Text of Sura (in translation by Rudi Paret )

Interpretation of Christoph Luxenberg

Even the English orientalist and Koran translators Richard Bell recalled in 1939, the terms " night ", " Angel" and " peace " ( "salvation" in the above translation of Paret ) to a Christmas mass. As part of his Syro -Aramaic interpretation of the Koran, which assumes that the Qur'an to a large extent on the Arabian playing a Christian Lectionary ( Aramaic: qeryana ) is based, suggests the German Orientalist Christoph Luxenberg Surah, according to him as " fate determination ( the birth star) " is to title, as a version of Christmas and interprets the text as follows: