For an Islamic Democracy

Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West

//www.goodreads.com/book/show/170994.Cultural...

Based on examples
ranging from Iran to Morocco, the author portrays a society he defines
as peripheral - bound by a slavish adherence to its own glorified
history, its "Tradition" - yet facing an external reality that derives
from the West. The meeting of these two incompatible worlds leads to a
profound distortion not only in how the Muslim world sees the West but,
more importantly, in how it sees itself.

.......

Truth is the Night of Power,

hidden amid the other nights

so the soul may try each one.

Not all nights are the Night of Power,

yet all nights aren’t empty of it either.

Rumi 

قدر خدا را نمیدانند

<و پيامبر گويد پروردگارا قوم من اين قرآن را وانهادند> (قرآن سوره ۲۵ آیه ۳۰)
اهمیت شب قدر برای یک مومن تنزیل قزآن برای هدایت اوست. قرآن را به دل گرفته و دست از حدس وگمان و بازی با اعداد بکشیم. هر معتقد به روز جزانیز شایسته است که نگران خود و اهل بیت خود باشد. اگر هنگامیکه مثلأ در عربستان شب است در جایی دیگر از دنیا کله ظهر ویا سحر است. دیگر این بازیها یعنی چه؟ عقل هم خوب چیزی است. خداوند در قرآن ساده و روشن بیان میکند که هر ۱۰۰۰ و یا ۵۰۰۰ روز بشر مثل یکروز است برای او. خوب اگر اینطور است که شبی که در قرآن ذکر شده که شب من و شما نیست که حتمأ روز روشن است برای مسلمانی در جای دیگر دنیا. به قرآن تمسک کنیم و فقط و فقط از خالق حق نور و شفا و هدایت بطلبیم. آمین برحمتک یا ارحم الراحمین.

May Allah bless you brother Tabarzin

Thanks a million for instructing this holy prayer. I shall remember you specifically when I recite it tomorrow night.

جزاك الله خيرا

For an Islamic democracy

اقرب

Salman jan, the Surah itself (97) should be recited as a continuous zekr, and 303 times in total to the abjad numerical value of aqrab (most near).

My dearest bother Tabarzin

You bring love and light to wherever you go. Thank you for such an educating commet you have left on my blog. Can you be kind and teach us a suitable prayer for the holy night of Qadr which I gather must be tomorrow night. May all the blessing of Allah befall on you on such a beautiful night.

شکرا جزیلاً 

جزاك الله خيرا

For an Islamic democracy

23rd of Ramadan

 Is Laylat'ul-Qadr (the Night of Power). There is a discussion by Mohsen Fayz Kashani about this in the Tafsir-i-Safi and an earlier one by Rajab Bursi saying the same thing. One of the reasonings for the 23rd of Ramadan being the Night of Power is the arrangement of the Du'a Sahar into 23 verses as this prayer is meant for Ramadan and each of its verses instances the members of the Ahl-i-Bayt from Muhammad to the 12th Imam together with God, the 4 Archangels of the Throne and the 4 companions of 'Ali: Ammar, Miqdad, Abu Zarr and Malik. 23 is also the abjad numerical value of wahdahu, and upon this basis the 23rd is claimed by some to be the precise locus of the Night of Power during the holy month. The Surah itself is claimed by some to refer to Hazrate Fatima Zahra' (as).