Autogive allows you to catch the blessings in the days of Ramadhan and its last ten nights with your donations, allowing you to focus on your personal ibadah. Sign up today and reap the rewards of a night greater than a thousand months in sha’Allah.
Embrace (and calculate!) the opportunities in these last ten nights! One thousand months is 83 years and all rewards are multiplied. This means Autogive helps you to give sadaqah as if you gave for over 30,000 nights, if accepted, and giving £10 each night is like giving £300,000!
The last ten nights of Ramadan are a time where most of us will be exerting ourselves to finish the month strong. Despite how we began, or how the middle of Ramadan went, the finish allows us to give that final push of effort to honour this beautiful month of opportunity before it slips by.
Whether increasing in night-time worship, staying in the mosque for I’tikaf or focusing on personal du’as, seeking Laylatul Qadr will be our goal. Among the many worthy acts of worship during these quiet hours, giving sadaqah is one we can often forget among our other actions. AutoGive allows you the peace of mind to know that your charity is taken care of for each day of Ramadhan and each of the last ten nights, so you can focus on your personal worship goals.
With AutoGive, you can simply:
Giving sadaqah on Laylatul-Qadr is as if you gave for 30,295 nights.
Embrace the Vulnerable in the Nights of Power
Giving £100 is like giving £3,000,000!
“Don't search for Laylatul-Qadr only between the pillars of the
mosques. Also seek it in clothing a naked person, giving security to a fearful one, removing
oppression, sponsoring an orphan and helping a sick person.”
(Sh Ahmad Esa Ma'sarawi)
You have full control here. You can choose to AutoGive your sadaqah for all 30 days, every Friday or for the last 10 nights, increasing your donations for whichever night you choose. These are the most blessed times to give, so grab the opportunity with both hands. Unlock all the blessings of the nights and days alike this Ramadan.
“The best deeds are those done regularly even if they are few.”
(Ibn Majah)
With AutoGive, we can also end stronger than we started. Whether it was a weak beginning or a mid-month lull, the conclusion of Ramadan gives us the gusto to make sure we finish strong:
Ibn al-Jawzi said:
“When the race horse knows that it is
nearing the end of the track it exerts all of
its effort to win the race. Do not allow the
race horse to be more clever than you. For
verily, deeds are judged by their
conclusions. So if you didn’t do well with
welcoming Ramadan then perhaps you will
do better bidding it farewell.”
Are you in?
Laylatul Qadr is the night on which the first verses of the Qur’an were revealed to our Prophet (saw). Known in English as ‘The Night of Decree’ or ‘The Night of Power’, it has a surah dedicated to it in the Holy Quran.
According to Ibn Kathir, on this night, the decrees of the coming year are transferred from the Lawh al-Mahfoodh –the Preserved Tablet on which everything since the beginning of creation is written. On this night the pre-determined fate of every being, from their yearly provisions to their deaths and what is to happen to them, is ordained.
A hadith, related by Bukhari, states that the value of sincere worship in prayer on this night is so great that Allah (swt) wipes all of the worshiper’s past sins. While other hadiths provide further incentive to make the most of this night, by warning those that miss out on the blessings of Laylatul Qadr:
“Whoever is deprived of it is deprived
of all goodness, and no one is deprived of its goodness except one who is truly deprived."
[Bukhari]
The Messenger of Allah (saw) was shown the long lifespans of the people who had gone before his,
and in comparison, the lives of his ummah seemed too short for them to be able to perform as
much worship and good actions.
“So Allah gave him Laylatul Qadr,
which is better than a thousand months."
[Malik]
To better understand the blessing of such a gracious gift, let’s do the math. 1000 months is 83 years. Giving sadaqah on this night is like giving sadaqah for 30,295 nights. Giving £10 is like giving £300,000!
But remember, the incentive here isn’t just monetary, and no numerical calculation can encompass the breadth of gaining Allah’s favour. It is a given that deeds performed in this honoured month are more blessed than they are at any other time. But another reason why the scholars of Islam encouraged generosity during Ramadhan, and specifically during the last ten nights, was because it was a way of emulating the example of the Prophet (saw). What better way to strive for the love of Allah than by following in the footsteps of the one He loves most?
“The Prophet (saw) was the most
generous of all the people in good deeds, and he was even more generous during the month of
Ramadhan."
[Bukhari]
Automated giving doesn’t just take the weight off your mind for that one extra thing you’d
otherwise be worrying about, when you have so much to do. It also offers a discreet way of
giving sadaqah without the awkward pressure of public fundraising appeals. As described in the
hadith Bukhari about the seven who Allah will shade on the Day of Judgment, our hope is to give
like that man.
“…who gives in charity and hides it,
such that his left hand does not know what his right hand gives in charity."
[Bukhari]
Automated giving is a means to this end, and we hope you feel its benefits.
Only Allah (swt) knows when Laylatul Qadr is. While most scholars are of the opinion that Laylatul Qadr is on a fixed night that doesn’t change, there are others who believe that it moves and changes each year. So that in one year Laylatul Qadr may fall on the 27th while in another it may be on the night of the 23rd or the 21st. This explains why there are so many varying hadiths about different nights, and allows us to reconcile among them.
“Seek it in the last ten days of
Ramadhan, when there are nine days left, and seven days left, and five days left."
[Bukhari]
What is certain is that this holiest of nights was hidden so that the believers would strive hard in seeking it out. In doing so, we increase our worship and dhikr and sadaqah instead of limiting our efforts to just one night out of the month.
Based on the hadiths, there is indeed a strong case for the 27th night of Ramadhan being Laylatul Qadr. Yet there are also many hadiths that suggest that the 21st or 23rd night is Laylatul Qadr; and still more that even suggest the 25th and 29th nights.
“The Night of Al-Qadr is on the
27th or the 29th [of Ramadhan]. On that night, the angels on earth are more numerous than
its pebbles."
[Ahmad]
For the believer truly willing to embrace the blessings of the last 10 days, the best practice is to honour all of these nights. By doing so, we gain the favour of Allah twofold: by paying heed to the words of our beloved Prophet (saw), despite variations in the hadiths due to a wisdom we don’t know; by emulating his example and dedicating ourselves to worship on every one of those nights.
Amongst the hadiths which equally highlight the importance of each of these nights are:
“Allah's Apostle used to practice
I’tikaf in the middle ten days of Ramadhan and once he stayed in I’tikaf till the night of
the 21st, and it was the night in the morning of which he used to come out of his I’tikaf.
The Prophet said, ‘Whoever was in I’tikaf with me should stay in I’tikaf for the last ten
days, for I was informed (of the date) of the Night (of Qadr) but I have been caused to
forget it. (In the dream) I saw myself prostrating in mud and water, in the morning of that
night. So, look for it in the last ten nights and in the odd ones of them.’ It rained that
night and the roof of the mosque dribbled as it was made of leaf stalks of date-palms. I
saw with my own eyes the mark of mud and water on the forehead of the Prophet (in the
morning of the twenty-first night)."
[Bukhari]
“Search for the Night of Qadr in
23rd night."
[at-Tabarani]
Abdullah ibn ‘Abbas said:
“Someone came to me in a dream
during Ramadhan, and it was said to me: Tonight is Laylatul Qadr. So, I got up, although
I was drowsy, and I came to the Messenger of Allah (saw) and found him praying. I looked to
see which night that was, and it was the night of 23rd."
[Ahmad]
“It comes either in the 27th or
23rd of Ramadhan."
[Ahmad]
Ibn Mas’ud said:
“I swear by Allah that I know which
night it is. It is the night Allah’s Messenger (saw) ordered us to observe standing in
prayer.... It is the night on the eve of the 27th of Ramadan. Its sign is that the Sun will
rise in the morning of that day white without exuding any rays."
[Muslim]
Ibn ‘Abbas also said:
“I think I know when it is: it is
the night of the 27th. Allah made the heavens seven, and the earths seven, and the days
seven, and He created man from seven, and He made Tawaf seven, and al-Sa’ee, and the
stoning of the Jimaar seven"
[Bayhaqi]
We know from the hadith reported by Aisha (ra), that when the last ten days commenced, the Prophet (saw) would stay up at night and strive harder in worship than he (saw) did at any other time, waking his family and urging them to do the same. She also narrates that the Messenger of Allah (saw) advised her to recite the following supplication on Laylatul Qadr:
Allahumma innaka `Afuwwun TuHibbul `Afwa Fa`fu `Annii.
“O Allah, you are pardoning and
generous. You love to forgive, so forgive me.”
[Tirmidhī]
Also highly recommended is performing Qiyam/Tahajjud –the night prayer, based on the following
hadith:
“Whoever establishes the prayers on
the night of Qadr out of sincere faith and hoping to attain Allah's rewards (not to show off)
then all his past sins will be forgiven."
[Bukhari]
