Significance of the 3x10 days of Ramadhan
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Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)
One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:
What are the first 10 days of fasting about? and then what are the
2nd set of 10 about? and what are teh
last 10 days of fasting about?
i ask this because i recently found out that the last 10 days are
of importance, and the previous 2 sets alos have meaning, i forgot the meainings, so could you list them
for me?
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Answer:
Significance of the 3x10 days of Ramadhan
In the
name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness.
Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray,
none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no
person, no grave, no prophet, no imam,
no dai, nobody!) worthy of
worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His
slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
The
Messenger of Allah declared in several authentic narrations that the blessed
Month of Ramadan is the month of Allah’s Mercy, Forgiveness, and a month that
saves from the Hell Fire. But there is
no authentic narration from the Messenger of Allah (saws) whereby he
specifically divided these qualities into three lots of ten days each! The whole month has been declared a blessed
month by Allah and His Messenger (saws).
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 1962 Narrated
by Abu Hurayrah
Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "Ramadan, a blessed month,
has come to you during which Allah has made it obligatory for you to fast. In
it the gates of Heaven are opened, the gates of al-Jahim are locked, and the
rebellious Shayateen are chained. In it Allah has a night which is better than
a thousand months. He who is deprived of
its good has indeed suffered deprivation."
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 3.252 Narrated
by Abu Salama bin Abdur Rahman
I asked Abu Said Al-Khudri, "Did you hear Allah's Messenger
(saws) talking about the Night of Qadr?"
He replied in the affirmative and said, "Once we were in Itikaf
with Allah's Messenger (saws) in the middle ten days of (Ramadan) and we came
out of it in the morning of the twentieth, and Allah's Messenger (saws)
delivered a sermon on the 20th (of Ramadan) and said, 'I was informed (of the
date) of the Night of Qadr (in my dream) but had forgotten it. So, look for it in the odd nights of the last
ten nights of the month of Ramadan.’
The last
ten nights of Ramadan hold a very special importance in Islam due to the fact
that one of those blessed nights is the Night of Power or ‘Layla tul Qadr’,
which Allah Subhanah has Decreed in the Glorious Quran to be better than a
thousands months.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 97 Surah Qadr verses 1-3:
1 We have indeed revealed
this (Message) in the Night of Power:
2 And what will explain
to thee what the Night of Power is?
3 The Night of Power is
better than a Thousand Months.
Whatever
written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance,
and whatever of error is of me. Allah
Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,
Burhan