A Gnostic Note on the Night of Qadr

 

As it has formerly been said concerning the truth of the night of qadr, the degrees of existence and the visible and invisible individuations are regarded “night” because the sun of the truth has set in their horizon. Consequently, the night of Qadr is the night in which the Haqq (Allah), the Exalted- according to all the affairs and the “Collective Oneness of the Names and Attributes”, which are the truth of the "Greatest Name"- is veiled. That is the individuation and the constitution of the perfect wali, who was the Messenger of Allah in his life, and then the Imams of guidance, one after another. Therefore, the dawn of the night of Qadr is when the first rays of the rising sun of the truth shine from behind the veils of the individuations.
The rise of the sun from the horizon of the individuations is the dawn of the Day of Resurrection, too. As from the time of the setting and veiling of the sun of the truth in the horizon of the individuations of these perfect walis, till the time of the break of the dawn, which is the period of the night of Qadr, that night full of honor is absolutely safe from the Satanic intrusions, and since the sun rises as it had set, blemish-less and free from the Satanic intrusion, thus, He says: "Peace it is till the break of the dawn." As to the other nights, they are either completely peace-less, such as the nights of the Umayyads and their like, or they have no peace in all its concepts, and these are the nights of the common people.
From the gnostic statements and faithful revelations, which, with the help of the great walis, dawned upon the luminous hearts of the people of knowledge, it is obvious that if the noble Surah of at-Tawhid is related to the Sacred Essence of Allah, the noble Surah of Qadr is related to the great Ahl al-Bayt, as is stated in the narratives concerning the Mi'raj.
Muhammad ibn Yaqoub, on the authority of Abou Abdullah, concerning the performance of the Messenger of Allahhis Salat in the heaven, in the Hadith of Isra, said: "... Then Allah, the Most High, revealed to him: Read, O Muhammad, the lineage of your Lord, the Blessed and Most High: 'He is Allah, the One. He is besought by all. He begets not, nor is He begotten. And none is comparable to Him.' This is in the first Rak'ah. Then, Allah, the Exalted and Most High, revealed to him: Read: 'All praise is for Allah.' He read it as he did first. Then Allah revealed to him: Read: 'We revealed it' which is your lineage and your offspring's till the Day of Resurrection."
The noble narratives concerning the merits of the blessed Surah of Qadr are numerous. Among them is a narrative in the noble Kafi, from Imam Baqir (a.s.) who said: "Whoever recites 'We revealed it on The Night of Qadr openly (with a loud voice), he is like the one who unsheathes his swords for the sake of Allah. And whoever recites it secretly, is as if he rolls in his blood shed in the way of Allah, and whoever recites it ten times, a thousand of his sins will be forgiven." In Khawass al-Qur'an, the Messenger of Allah is quoted to have said: "Whoever recites this Surah, he will have the reward of the one who has fasted the month of Ramadan, attaining the night of Qadr, and he will have the reward of a fighter in the way of Allah."  Praise is for Allah, at the beginning and at the end.

Disciplines of the prayer, Text, Page: 455-457