إِنَّا أَنْزَلْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ
BEHOLD, from on high have We bestowed this [divine writ] on the Night of Destiny. (1)
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ
And what could make thee conceive what it is, that Night of Destiny? (2)
لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ
The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months: (3)
تَنَزَّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ فِيهَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِمْ مِنْ كُلِّ أَمْرٍ
in hosts descend in it the angels, bearing divine inspiration by their Sustainer's leave; from all [evil] that may happen (4)
سَلَامٌ هِيَ حَتَّىٰ مَطْلَعِ الْفَجْرِ
does it make secure, until the rise of dawn. (5)
- The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months:2
- 2 Sc., "in which there was no similar night" (Razi).
- The Night of Power is better than a thousand Months.6218
- 6218 "A thousand" must be taken in an indefinite sense, as denoting a very long period of time. Cf. notes 3632 and 3634 to 32:4-5, and n. 5678 to 70:4. This does not refer to our ideas of time, but to "timeless Time". One moment of enlightenment under Allah's Light is better than thousands of months or years of animal life, and such a moment converts the night of darkness into a period of spiritual glory.
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The Night of Power is better than a thousand months.
— Abdullah Yusuf Ali -
The Night of Power is better than a thousand months.
— Marmaduke Pickthall -
The grand night is better than a thousand months.
— M. Habib Shakir -
The night of Al-Qadr (Decree) is better than a thousand months (i.e. worshipping Allah in that night is better than worshipping Him a thousand months, i.e. 83 years and 4 months).
— Taqiuddin Hilali and M. Mohsin Khan -
The night of Power is better than a thousand months.
— Abdul-Majid Daryabadi -
The Night of Honor is better than a thousand months,
— Hasan Qaribullah and Ahmed Darwish -
Night of Decree is better than a thousand months.
— Ayub Khan -
The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months.
— Sher Ali -
The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months:
— Muhammad Asad -
The Night of Power is better than a thousand months;
— Arthur Arberry -
The Night of Power is better than a thousand months.{{2}}
— Abu'l Ala Maududi