There are two scenes on Laylatul Qadr
that are profound and engage the Angels in a way
that they are not engaged at any other time of the year.
And the Prophet (pbuh) said that there is not a single space
in general in the heavens of four fingers, except that there is an angel
that is standing or bowing or prostrating to Allah, and the heavens are creaking.
There are two scenes on Laylatul Qadr that are profound
and engage the Angels in a way that they are not engaged at any other time of the year.
And I want you to picture these two scenes.
The first scene is the scene of hope, the scene of traffic
where you literally have Angels transferring between the heavens and the Earth,
descending upon the various Masajid, descending upon the various homes,
descending upon every individual that is engaged in a state of dhikr,
in the state of the remembrance of Allah and taking those names back up to Allah.
And if the Prophet (pbuh) said that there is not a single space
in general in the heavens of four fingers, except that there is an angel
that is standing or bowing or prostrating to Allah (swt),
and the heavens are creaking from the amount of Malaika,
the amount of Angels, the scene of the Angels going back and forth
between the heavens and the Earth is a profound scene.
May Allah (swt) allow us to be amongst those
whose deeds are recorded by Jibril (a.s)
and taken back up to our Lord and Sustainer.
And Allah (swt) be pleased with us- Ameen.
And then you have the other side of it
which doesn't include a transfer between the heavens and the Earth,
but is the Malaika, the Angels in the heavens amongst themselves.
And this is what we have from the narrations of the writing of the decree,
... the different decrees that are made that night.
If you could hear the pens and the Scrolls
that the Prophet (pbuh) was talking about as Allah (swt) decrees
for each and every single person what is to come for that year.
And that comes from al-lawh al-mahfooz / from His preserved tablet, to the angels.
and the Angels collecting those Scrolls amongst themselves.
It's quite a scene.
And SubhanAllah, if you think about
some of the noisy busy scenes, when something first opens in the worldly sense,
right? the minute the stock market opens and the people rushing to open
the doors of their businesses, after fajr in places where they pray salah and then
they begin their day of work and just the noise of the shops opening up,
if you've been in Medina salatul zuhr right like just all the noise
of the busyness getting started and think of the heavens
as the decrees are being transferred from angel to angel
and the writing is taking place and in those writings is everything that has to do with you
for the year to come, everything that has to do with you for the year to come.
Allah (swt) says,
Allah (swt) says, indeed,We have sent it down on a blessed night referring to the Quran
for We always warn give people sufficient admonishment.
And on that night that blessed night,
every single matter is ordained by a command from Us.
And we have always sent messengers as a mercy from Your Lord.
He alone is truly the all-hearing, and the all-knowing,
We have sent it on a blessed night,
in the night of decree.
And so the first thing that you take from that is if it is a blessed night,
then be engaged in what is Mubaraka.
Be engaged in blessed deeds and nothing else and
be Mubaraka, be someone who is blessed to everyone
and everything around you on that night.
Jesus (a.s) says, ...Allah made me blessed wherever I am.
Bring blessings to every place and every environment that you are in
in those nights as you are seeking the mercy of Allah (swt),
And what makes it so special that Allah chose to send this book on this night?
As the scholars mentioned,
Allah has the greatest Qadr, the greatest estimation,
and He sent the greatest book with the greatest angel
to the greatest Prophet (pbuh), the Prophet (pbuh) with the greatest qadr
And in that book the greatest qadr and in the month with the greatest qadr.
It is a night of power, a night of decree, a night of blessing and Subhanallah,
The idea of the decree taking place is the one
that I just want us to spend a few minutes with today,
“by Allah’s will”, the decree itself, every single precise matter is ordained.
There are different types of writing in which the decree takes place.
We have lawh al-mahfooz which is with Allah alone,
and then you have the writings of the Angels
and you have the writing of the human being when they are in the womb
and you have the daily writings that take place.
And when it comes to all of these different things,
all of them can be adjusted except for lawh al-mahfooz
because lawh al-mahfooz / the preserved tablet of Allah takes into consideration
all of the changes that would happen already
that so and so would make dua / supplication on this point,
so and so would make a change in their life on this point.
And so the records of the Angels are adjusted accordingly
and the adjustments are already recorded
in the preserved tablet of the all-knowing and the all-wise
but of the mercy of these adjustments taking place On Laylatul Qadr
is that Allah chose that the night of decree
would come down on the night that the believers would be engaged in worship,
even a person who's generally distant from Allah (swt).
Do you think that they're going to be sinning on that night,
that they're going to be disobedient on that night?
Even people that generally don't come to the Masajid of Allah (swt),
are engaged in the Masajid on that night.
They're trying to engage in some sort of remembrance of Allah (swt),
And so, as the scholars said,
look at the mercy of Allah that He chose the decree to come down
when you are in the best state that you could possibly be,
be when you're in the best state of Ibada /worship.
And so the decree is most likely to be in your favor.
The Prophet (pbuh),
for example, when he said that I like to fast on Mondays and Thursdays
because the deeds are taken up to Allah, the deeds ascend the decree descends.
And he (pbuh) wanted to be in a state of Ibada when that is happening.
And in Ramadan, you are fasting, you are praying, you are reading Quran,
and that shows you that your Lord wants to send you mercy /
decrees for you mercy is giving you the best opportunity for yourself.
As Ibn Kathir (rah) says, what comes down on that night is
everything that will happen of that year in terms of the recording of your sustenance,
what you're going to gain that year.
So as you're doing your accounting for the year
and you're making all sorts of your strategic decisions
of what you want to earn that year, just as Allah decrees,
every drop of rain that will fall, Allah on that night decrees every single Penny
that will go into your account, your rizq, your sustenance is decreed.
What will happen in terms of your lifespan,
the events of the year that will come.
Ibn Abbas (Ra), He says that on that night, who's going to pass away
that year comes down?
Imagine a person that's waiting to see the results of something.
You've tried to pass an exam, you've tried to get on a team,
you've tried to match somewhere, you're waiting for the results to come out.
We've all had that feeling
where you're clicking on something to see if your name is going to be there.
Imagine that there are Scrolls that are printed on that night
and there are the names of the people that will die that year.
And it could be very well that our names are written in those Scrolls
and Subhanallah, there's one way that Ibn Abbas (ra) extends this,
He says, even Hajj, Allah writes down on that night
the Scrolls of Hajj, you wait for the visas,
you wait for the quota us from the government of Saudi Arabia.
You wait for the visas to come.
You wait for this, you wait for that.
The results come out tonight or whatever night Allah (swt) has decreed, Laylatul Qadr.
so make the intension for Hajj, Allah grant us Hajj Mabroor.
Allah grant us an accepted Hajj.
Let our names be on those printed records.
But then he gives this scene.
He said, this is such a powerful statement, shakes you to the core.
He said, you'll see a man walking around in the marketplace and at that moment, right
Subhanallah, the decree just came down
and his name appeared on the Scrolls of those who will die this year.
So, Subhanallah, we're sitting in this masjid.
We pray that we are in a state of Ibada, engaged in Ibada.
You're sitting there, a person sitting there.
We're eating suhoor together.
You might be going home, coming back,
planning the rest of your night, planning the rest of your day.
And at that moment, an angel just received a scroll
that has your name for passing away that year.
And that's why, as you are in the end of Ramadan.
One of the most blessed things that you could be asking for is a good ending.
We're not a people who make dua for long lives just for the sake of living long.
We are people who make dua to Allah (swt),
to take us from this life when it is best for us
when we're in the best state of Imam / faith,
And just as Allah prepares you and sets you up
to be in the best state of practice and faith in the end of Ramadan.
Allah also gives you a trajectory to be in the best place at the end of your life.
And so as you're asking Allah (swt)
to decree in favor for you this rizq, this thing that you always wanted.
Perhaps you're asking Allah for a child.
Perhaps you're asking Allah for a spouse, a job.
You're asking Allah to open this door for you and open that door for you.
Make sure that you're also asking Allah to facilitate your exit from this door
into the next realm in the best of ways because there is no rizq
that will be decreed that is more precious than a good ending.
May Allah subhanatara give us a good ending to this Ramadan
and may Allah (swt) decree for us good ending from this life
and grant us jannatul firdaus
and the companionship of our Prophet (pbuh)
and the righteous company, -Alalhhuma Ameen.