Salam alaikum

Why Ramadhan is so great a month This month has in its folds one such night that is better than a thousand months – Allah’s mercies and blessings that are normally showered in thousands of months are all showered in one night. This is the night in which Our Lord gave us His biggest gift, the Qur’an: “We revealed it (the Clear Book) on a Blessed Night.” (Al-Qur’an 34:3) What is this “Clear Book”? It is a “Mercy from your Lord.” (Al-Qur’an 34:6) Not just this night, but every day of this month is blessed and every night is blissful. When the day dawns, it gives an opportunity to scores of people to abstain from pleasures and rightful demands of flesh and blood in order to show their obedience to Allah and eagerness to attain His closeness. They stand witness to the fact that Allah alone is their Lord and object of their efforts; that the real thirst in life is the desire to obey and submit to Him; and that getting His pleasure quenches this thirst. When the night envelopes everythin...

After the Prophet performed the Evening Prayer  (^Ish a '), Jibr i l  came to him with a white animal, slightly larger than a donkey yet smaller than a mule. This animal was the  bur aq ,--one of the animals of Paradise.  Jibr i l  held the  bur aq  by his ear and told the Prophet to mount it. When the  bur aq  was mounted, the Prophet   set forth.  The  bur aq  is a very fast animal; the length of the  bur aq 's  stride is the farthest distance it's eye can see. The Prophet and  Jibr i l  arrived to a land with palm trees.  Jibr i l  told the Prophet to dismount and pray, so the Prophet dismounted the  bur aq  and prayed two  rak^as .  Jibr i l  asked him, "Do you know where you prayed?" and the Prophet answered, " All a h  knows best."  Jibr i l  told him, "This is  Yathrib ; this is  T aybah . "." (These are two names for the city...