I-Day double-joy for Muslims

Aug 16, 2012 - Mir Quadir Ali |

Hyderabad

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Shab-e-Qadr

For Muslims, this Independence Day is more special as it falls on Ramzan 26, the eve of Shab-e-Qadr. However, very few Indians, even Muslims, know that August 15, 1947 also coincided with Shab-e-Qadr.

“I distinctly remember the day. I remember my father telling us that free India would be among the foremost of nations as its transition to freedom was beginning on the holiest of all nights,” says 82-year-old Mir Qutubuddin Ali of Fateh Darwaza. Shab-e-Qadr is the most important night in the Islamic or Hijri calendar and is described in the Quran as a night equivalent to a 1,000 months. It is widely believed that Shab-e-Qadr falls on either Ramzan 21, 23, 25, 27 or 29. “It’s amazing. We had always celebrated Independence Day, in school, college and now at work. We also observed Shab-e-Qadr with devotion and prayers, but never knew the connection,” said Mohammad Hasham of Goshamahal. Hasham, like many of his friends from the area, has just returned from being part of a human chain that carried a massive tricolour through the streets of Begum Bazaar.

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