On 2nd February 2026, Muslims all over the world are going to celebrate Laylat-al Baraat, the blessed \u201cNight of Absolution\u201d occurring on the night of Monday to Tuesday (Arab. laitat al-bar\u0101\u02bfa, t\u00fcrk. Beraat Kandili). According to the Islamic calendar, this is the night between the 14th and 15th Sha\u02bfb\u0101n. In this night the infinite grace and mercy of Allah are given to those who turn aside in sincere repentance to their Creator. KUDEM congratulates all Muslims on this particular night, and we pray to Allah that He would let us partake of His infinite goodness and mercy.<\/p>\n\n
The word \u201ebar\u0101\u02bfa\u201c, which means in Arabic “absolution” or “redemption\u201d, signalises the Divines forgiveness and the clearing of people\u2019s sins. The infinite mercy of Allah is especially characterized in this night. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) compares the infinite mercy metaphorically with the countless number of hairs of the entire sheep flock of Ban\u016b Kalb tribe (at-Tirmidh\u012b, Hem 39).<\/p>\n\n
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) spent this special night with additional ritual prayers, supplications and prolonged prostrations, and used to fast the following day. According to the tradition, the Prophet (PBUH) recommended his community (Ummah) to do the same: “When the night of mid-month Sha\u02bfb\u0101n occurs, get up in the night for prayer and fast on the following day\u201d. Because Allah the Exalted reveals on this night with His mercy on the Earth\u2019s skies and asks until dawn: \u201cIs there no one asking forgiveness that I may forgive them? Is there no one asking sustenance that I may grant them sustenance? Is there no one under trial that I may relieve them? It goes on like that until dawn rises\u201d, (Ibn M\u0101jah, Iq\u0101ma, 191).<\/p>\n\n
In this sense, we should take this beautiful night as an opportunity to reflect our lives and actions and to turn away by repentant prayers of all sins, iniquities and transgressions. May Allah, the Almighty, help us and enables for the sake of this special night a peaceful and harmonious coexistence of all peoples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On 2nd February 2026, Muslims all over the world are going to celebrate Laylat-al Baraat, the blessed \u201cNight of Absolution\u201d occurring on the night of Monday to Tuesday (Arab. laitat al-bar\u0101\u02bfa, t\u00fcrk. Beraat Kandili). According to the Islamic calendar, this is the night between the 14th and 15th Sha\u02bfb\u0101n. In this night the infinite grace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[86,85],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-messages","tag-kandil-en","tag-laylat-al-baraat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}