Lailat al-Qadr (The Night of Power)

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, theCompassionate

Every person here is the truth in God,

Like a garden of grapes, 

She is the field, the grapes themselves, 

The man who works in the field and the wine of purity;

She is the song, the singer, the note,

And the love which is given without asking for anything in return,

Or without holding anything in reserve,

She is the picture and the thing pictured

and the seer, inside and outside -

This picture makes me to flow up,

She is the truth, and the seeking for truth,

and the knowing of the truth.

You are the person who bears the secret names of God.

All of the secrets of the names have been put in you.

When you realize who you are, you will be the Qur'an.

You will be the word of God,

and the people will come to read you.

They will look to you with holiness

Because you are the speech of Him, which is ordered.

All the kings will prostrate themselves before you,

Before that which is given to you,

That which is hidden within you,

That which you rent.

You are the fuqara, the poor folk, the image of praying;

The revelation and also the receiver of revelation.

You are the quietness to give from Him to Him.

You are the poor - the picture of Him.

This is your situation when you are fired with love.

When you sleep so deeply, she is the waking of love.

You think you sleep, but you are awake always.

Turning, turning, turning around the throne of the most high.

Laila's play is the dance of the deep secret knowing,

of the Muhammad soul;

the wine, the cup, the drinking, the drunkenness,

the great war, the victory, the wedding feast:

Laila on the night of Lailat al-Qadr.

~Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id Jamal ar-Rifa'i as-Shadhuli