Al-Hajj Al-Mabroor

That day, on which we shake off pride and unjustness, Allah,
praise and glory be to Him, manifests Himself to us with
forgiveness, because obduracy is what set a barrier between us and
Allah. That is to say, living in one community where each of us
regards himself better than the other, sees his merits and fails to
see his demerits! On that great day we learn that what
distinguishes us is not self-given but from our Creator. Thereon,
servility is forged within us and only then The Truth, praise and
glory be to Him, says:
“They are a congregation who deserve My Forgiveness and
Mercy.”
Obduracy, vanity and attempts of claiming superiority and
assuming airs of haughtiness are the withholders of the Mercy of
Allah, and nothing is more indicative of it than what happened
when the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him
peace) went out to tell his companions about the Lailatul-Qadr [The
night of Al-Qadr is either indicative of the honor and station of that
night, thus meaning ‘An honorable night’, or the word ‘Al-Qadr’ may
also refer to the ordainment and disposal of affairs. So it would mean
‘the night in which all that will occur in the following year will be
decreed,’ following the Qur’anic Statement of Allah saying (what
means), ‘Therein (on that night) is decreed every matter of ordainment.’
(Ad-Dukhân, 44: 4) Lailatul-Qadr is concealed in one of the odd nights
in the last ten days of Ramadan; the Noble Qur’an was sent down in the
Night of Al-Qadr and the Qur ‘an itself describes as ‘Better than a
thousand months’]. On finding two quarrelling persons he forgot it,
thereby the Companions were deprived of knowing its exact day.
Following upon, disputation, dissension and quarrelling prohibit
the bestowment of boons on the community. An assembly that
wishes to receive the Bestowments of Allah must enjoy absolute
serenity together, having all their faculties congruous and each is
in the right state to be instructed by his Lord.
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