What is Laylat al-Qadr?

ما ليلة القدر؟

The Night of Power is the night in Ramadan when the Quran was revealed, and it is better than a thousand months. It is sought in the last ten nights, and according to most scholars its most hoped-for nights are the odd ones.

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The Night of Decree is the night in Ramadan when the Qur'an was revealed, and it is better than a thousand months. It is sought in the last ten nights, and most scholars regard its odd nights as the likeliest. 1

People and things also explored

The ruling on one who abandons prayer· Ada' (performance of an obligation within its time)· Adhan (the call to prayer: its ruling, wording, conditions, recommended features and the muezzin)· Bone (adhm): purity, use and retaliation· The adornment of desires and the goods of this world· The people of the bench (ahl al-suffa)· The earth made a place of prayer and purity· Spending in the way of God (infaq)

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The ruling on one who abandons prayer

Al-Sallabi quotes Ali: whoever does not pray is an unbeliever. He then reports from al-Nawawi the dispute over one who neglects prayer while believing it obligatory: the majority (Malik, al-Shafi'i) hold him a sinner to be asked to repent, others hold him an unbeliever, a view ascribed to Ali; Abu Hanifa and the Kufans hold him not an unbeliever but to be disciplined.