✦ AT A GLANCE ✦
القدر
Al-Qadr
✦ Why this name
The Decree — al-Qadr, the night on which matters are decreed.
✦ When it came
Meccan. It describes the night on which the Quran began to be sent down, sought in the last ten nights of Ramadan.
✦ The story
Five verses about one night.
*"Indeed, We sent it down during the Night of Decree. And what can make you know what the Night of Decree is? The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months."*
Better than eighty-three years. One night.
*"The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter."* And then the last verse, which is the whole feeling of the night in one word:
*"Peace it is, until the emergence of dawn."*
Not "reward". Not "power". **Peace** — until the sun comes up.
✦ How it unfolds
- AYAH 1-2
The night it came down
The revelation's beginning, and a question that holds the answer back.