Sep 22, 2021
Quran Talks (4 of 9): Surah Al Qadr
In this powerful talk, Shaykh Fadhlalla illustrates how each cycle – be it annual, monthly, daily, hourly, momentary; or within the blood, breath, human body, earth; or out in the cosmos – has its specific frequency and pattern, and yet each resonates due to the One, original cause and essence of all patterns, vibrations or movements. He describes how laylat al-qadr – the night of power during the month of Ramadan – is the moment when the infinite unseen, divine energy, or sacred presence imprints upon the seen, discernible and therefore dual world of our experience. The practice of death is the practice of eternal life, and laylat al-qadr is the night in which the seen and the unseen are inseparable. You don’t know whether you are, or are not. Whether you are here or nowhere; in heavens, or on earth; nothing exists. It has swallowed you. There is no you. The seen and the unseen and the seer are indistinguishable.
The purpose of the descendants of Adam is, by will, conscious…