Comments on Laylat al-Qadr from Nuzhat al-Majalis
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is extracted and adapted from Nuzhat al-Majalis , compiled by Imam Jamal ad-Din Khalil ash-Sharwani ( q.s. ). This is the chapter on Laylat al-Qadr . The Night of Allah’s ( s.w.t. ) Decree in the last ten days of the month of Ramadhan. Many of the commentators have said that deeds done on that night are better than the deeds of 1,000 months, which do not contain a Night of the Decree. Shaykh Abu Ishaq Ka’b ibn Mani’ al-Himyari al-Ahbar ( r.a. ) said, “There was a righteous king among Bani Isra’il. Allah Revealed to their prophet, ‘Tell him to wish for something.’ He said, ‘I wish to strive in the way of Allah with my possessions and my offspring.’ Allah Gave him one thousand children. He began to prepare each child for battle until that child died as a martyr, whereupon he prepared the next one, and so forth until they were all killed in a period of 1,000 months. ...