The Night of Freedom from Hell

May Allah Almighty grant us the ability to value this blessed night. According to the blessed Hadith, on this night, as many sinners are freed from Hell as the number of hairs on the goats of the tribe of Banu Kalb.^[1] Banu Kalb was an Arab tribe. The books say they owned an enormous number of goats.^[2]

سُـبْحٰـنَ الـلّٰــه ! How many hairs are on a goat's body? Who can count them? It becomes clear that on this night, thousands, millions, rather billions of people are forgiven. However, ten unfortunate individuals are not forgiven even on this night:

1. The one addicted to alcohol,

2.  the one disobedient to his parents,

3.  the one addicted to fornication,

4.  the one who severs family ties,

5.  the one who makes pictures or images,

6.  the tale-bearer,^[3]

7.  the soothsayer or fortune-teller,

8.  the one who practices magic,

9.  the one who wears his lower garment below the ankles out of pride,

10.  and the one who harbours hatred and enmity against a Muslim without a Shar‘i reason, also remains deprived of forgiveness on this night.^[4]

May Allah Almighty, for the sake of this blessed and sacred night, grant all of us the gift of forgiveness, the ability to repent sincerely, the dislike for sins, the