2023-04-17 12:55:48
Given the place that characterizes the “Night of Power” in the hearts of Muslims, the Lebanese celebrate the night of 27 Ramadan by praying in the courtyards of mosques, sometimes even in the public streets.
Celebrating Laylat al-Qadr during the last ten days of Ramadan acquires a religious value for the fasting Lebanese, as they gather in mosques in various cities and towns, perform prayers, listen to dhikr and recitations, recite the Holy Qur’an, and supplicate to the Lord and pray to Him with humble and hopeful hearts.
Beirut celebrates Laylat al-Qadr
Beirut is preparing to revive Laylat al-Qadr, as it does every year, and about that, the journalist and researcher in folklore, Ziad Itani, told Sky News Arabia: “The Laylat al-Qadr acquires a special feature in the capital, Beirut, since ancient times.”
He added, “In addition to the celebrations that permeate its mosques, the doors of the room in which the noble relic was placed were opened in the Great Omari Mosque, in downtown Beirut, where the governor and dignitaries would attend to have the honor of visiting the relic, and after them people would come in droves.”
Al-Tawhish and farewell to Ramadan in the last ten days
The honorable effect
Itani explained that the honorable relic “is 3 hairs from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad, which were gifted by an Ottoman sultan to the city of Beirut.”
And he continued: “The day the news spread of the arrival of the noble relic to Beirut, hearts raged with supplication, and a crowded procession took place carrying the relic, in the presence of scholars and notables, and in front of them the military personnel lined up, and it was transferred to the Great Al-Omari Mosque, where the room located in the western-south side was allocated to it, and the service of this relic was assigned to it. Al-Sharif to the Fakhoury family.
Itani confirmed that “during the civil war in Lebanon, the honorable antiquity was attacked and stolen from its location, and nothing has been known about it since then.”
The researcher concluded his speech to “Sky News Arabia” by saying: “Here, Beirut is preparing to open the doors of its mosques to worshipers until the onset of dawn, to revive the 27th night of Ramadan in mosques.”
Vibrant Tripoli
For his part, the head of the Antiquities, Tourism and Heritage Committee in the municipality of Tripoli, a member of the municipal council, Khaled Tadmuri, told Sky News Arabia, “The capital of northern Lebanon, Tripoli, revives the night in mosques until dawn, and this is what it has become accustomed to over the years.”
And he continued, “The city’s mosques hold my prayers of qiyaam and praises connected between the Tarawih and Fajr prayers, and the Tripolitans flock to the mosques throughout this night, with delicious dishes distributed by some to the worshipers.”
Tadmury revealed that, “In recent years, Tripoli has witnessed the revival of odd odd nights of the last ten days of Ramadan, in anticipation of Laylat al-Qadr, meaning that mosques have been crowded with worshipers since the beginning of the last ten days of the holy month.”
Mosque committees across northern Lebanon also hold special programs for this occasion.
And he added, “The streets of Tripoli are crowded with worshipers who often wear white and flock to mosques, and this coincides with the opening of commercial markets and restaurants until dawn prayer, to secure the worshipers’ needs.”
Tadmury concluded his speech to “Sky News Arabia”, saying: “The mosques witness the distribution of Suhoor for free, and the number of worshipers on this night reaches the sidewalks of the roads surrounding the mosques and their gardens, and the streets are closed in many cases.”
In a related context, eyewitnesses from the city of Sidon, southern Lebanon, confirmed that the scene of the revival of Laylat al-Qadr is not much different from that in Beirut and Tripoli, stressing that it is “a sacred night for the people of the city, in which various types of Sidonian sweets are distributed to mosques and the poor.”
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