Quora Answer: How Do We Know When is Laylat al-Qadr When the Signs are on Multiple Days?

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “How would we know when Laylat al-Qadr occurs if some of the signs are on multiple days, for example, there could be multiple days of rain or calm nights?” 

If you are meant to know, you will see its signs.  Laylat al-Qadr is a Divine Gift to the faithful.  It is not something that can be found by gaming the system.  Even if you were to know how to calculate it, and there are those such as Shaykh Muhyi ad-Din Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn ‘Arabi (q.s.), who have given us such a formula, there is still no guarantee that you will experience it.  If you want to seek Laylat al-Qadr, then you need to spend the days of your Ramadhan in physical and spiritual fasting, and the nights in prayer and contemplation.