Why Ramadan is Special: Characteristics and Features - II … Continued It is the month of Thikr (remembrance of Allaah) and supplication. Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): • {and remember Allaah often that you may succeed.} [Quran 62:10] • {and the men who remember Allaah often and the women who do so - for them Allaah has prepared forgiveness and a great reward.} [Quran 33:35] • {And invoke Him in fear and aspiration. Indeed, the mercy of Allaah is near to the doers of good.} [Quran 7:56] • {And when My servants ask you, [O Muhammad], concerning Me - indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. So let them respond to Me [by obedience] and believe in Me that they may be [rightly] guided.} [Quran 2:186] This last noble verse in particular highlights the intimate relation between fasting and supplication. In Ramadan, there is Laylatu Al-Qadr (the Night of Decree), in connection with which Allaah The Almighty Says (what means): {The Night of Qadr (Decree) is better than a thousand months.} [Quran 97:3] According to the scholars, any righteous deed performed therein is better than the actions of one thousand months, i.e. almost 83 years. This is sufficient commendation of its superiority and honor, and the magnificence of the deed done on it for the one whom Allaah guides to stay up in worship on that night– we ask Allaah The Almighty to guide us to that always, by His bounty and generosity. It is narrated in an authentic Hadeeth that the Messenger of Allaah
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