Monday 11 May 2020

The Most Powerful Night

In a blink of an eye, we are almost into the last ten nights of Ramadan which starts on Wednesday night inshaa Allah. Don’t leave too quickly, Ramadan 😢

During our last lesson on Al Ghazali Mysteries of Fasting for Children, I asked the children if they knew the significance of Nuzul Al Quran and Laylatul Qadr. I found out that not everyone knew the significance of these great nights or they got them mixed up. 

So I read this book to them, The Most Powerful Night, which is the latest addition to our Ramadan books. It is a story of a girl named Layla who learns about the most powerful night of Ramadan, the Laylatul Qadr, from her mother. Along with it, she learns about the significance of the night, why she should strive for it, and what she could do on the last ten nights of Ramadan. I hope it would increase the children’s zeal, and mine too, to look for the Night of Qadr and be in worship inshaa Allah.


And we reached the third and last chapter of the Mysteries of Fasting which is on the inner practices of fasting. Previously, they had learnt the outer obligatory and sunnah aspects of fasting. In the last chapter, the children learnt that there are 3 levels of fasting:

1) By most people - giving up food, drinks and lower desires
2) By the special people - giving up food and drinks while protecting every part of their body from doing bad deeds
3) By the elect of the elect - giving up food and drinks and protecting from bad deeds while fasting from all thoughts, concerns and worries about their daily lives in this world 

How do we increase our fasting from level 1 to level 2? That’s what the children will learn in the next and last lesson inshaa Allah and I’m just as excited to read up and learn it too. I realised that we should have started on the Mysteries of Fasting much earlier so that we could enter Ramadan equipped with the knowledge. Oh well, better late than never. This is definitely a book to revisit every year before Ramadan inshaa Allah.

May this Ramadan be the most special one where we, and our loved ones, receive Allah’s Gaze, Mercy and Forgiveness, and be blessed with a place in Jannah and be freed from the Fire. Aameen!

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