Laylat al-Qadr
When Lailat al -Qadr (Arabic: ليلة القدر, the Night of Power, the Night of Omnipotence ') in Islam is called the night in the month of Ramadan in which the Qur'an was revealed according to Islamic faith for the first time.
Date
The exact date of the Night of Power is uncertain and can be set only to the odd numbers of the last ten nights of Ramadan. The Islamic day starts in accordance with the biblical story of creation with each sunset, which is why it is to say on the night that the 21, 23, 25, 27, or 29 Ramadan initiates either.
The DİTİB defines the Night of Power laid on the 27th of Ramadan.
Lailat al -Qadr in the Quran
The Koran devotes this special night a separate Sura: Sura al 'l- Qadr ( " The Determination "). In this surah reads:
"In the name of the merciful and gracious God. We have (ie the Qur'an) sent down to him in the Night of Power. But how can you know what the Night of Power? The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit come down in it by the permission of their Lord, loud logos ( beings ). She is ( full ) healing ( and blessings ) until the dawn becomes visible ( w. rises ). "
What is the "spirit " refers, whether to the Archangel Gabriel, or God's presence is not entirely clear. On the one hand, the word " holy spirit" or "spirit" in the Koran refers repeatedly to Gabriel. On the other hand, indicates the last verse of Surat attention to Divine Presence, which is expressed in the aforementioned peace (Arabic Salām ).
According to Islamic beliefs of the Archangel Gabriel dictated that night the Prophet Mohammed following words:
"In the name of the merciful and gracious God. / / Recite in the name of thy Lord who created, / / has created man from an embryo. / / Support ( words of Scripture ) before! Your most nobler Lord (or: your Lord, noble as nobody in the world ), it is so, / / who has taught the use of the write pipe ( or: who has taught by the write pipe ), / / the people who taught what he ( previously ) did not know. "
However, this disclosure is not decisive for the appointment of the night, so this does not specify. The Laylatu 'l- Qadr, there were, according to the Islamic view even before the revelation, and the revelation coincided with her.
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 this sura whose titles he meant by " fate determination ( the birth star) ", translated as a version of Christmas and interprets the text as follows:
"We have made him ( = the boy Jesus ) in the night of fate determination come down ( the birth star). / / What do you know what the Night of Fate Determination? / / The night ( = the Nokturn ) the fate determination is merciful than a thousand vigils. / / The angel of the spirit ( accompanied ), bring it with permission of their Lord down all kinds of hymns. / / Peace it is till the break of dawn. "
Lailat al -Qadr in the Islamic tradition
In the Islamic tradition of literature, there are numerous hadiths emphasize the sanctity of Laylat al -Qadr. That is a prophetic word that the ostiranische traditionists al - Chuttalī († 896 ), citing ʿ Abd Allāh ibn ʿ Abbās narrated: " When the Lailat al -Qadr comes, God commanded Gabriel to descend in an entourage of angels, where he has 500 wings from which it spreads only two that night. If he spreads that night, they extend over the entire east and west. "