Which day is shab e barat

Shab-e-Barat date: Also celebrated around this time of the year, along with Holi, Shab-e-Barat is an important occasion for the Muslim community around the world. As mentioned earlier, it is essentially the night of atonement. The day believed to extremely pious, for it is said that the Almighty readily forgives those who pray sincerely, and ask for their sins to be washed.

As such, on this day, people visit mosques, and pray on behalf of their loved ones by going to their graves. They light candles and offer prayers to Allah. According to the Hadeeth, or the sayings of Prophet Muhammad, Shab-e-Barat is also the night when Allah gives His blessings to people for the year ahead. People belonging to the Muslim community pray all night and also recite the holy Quran. They start their prayers after sundown with the Isha Ki Namaz. On the next day, before azaan , sehri is eaten.

Allah frees in it a large number of the people from Hellfire, more than the number of hairs growing on the sheep of the tribe, Kalb. But He does not even look at a person who associates partners with Allah, or at a person who nourishes malice in his heart against another Muslim , or at a person who cuts off the ties of womb-relations, or at a man who leaves his clothes extending beyond his ankles as a sign of pride , or at a person who disobeys his parents, or at a person who has a habit of drinking wine.

Those Muslims who observe this night do so with special prayers, fasting and rituals like staying up for most of the night, usually taking short breaks and praying to Allah and reciting the Quran until dawn.

Sometimes nighttime vigils along with prayers are also organised but generally people mostly pray at home with their own families. Charity is done with money and food being distributed among the poor. Muslims also have a tradition of visiting mosques and graveyards on this day.

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