Pray for Muslims on the "Night of Power"

Pray for Muslims on the "Night of Power"
Many Muslims will celebrate the Night of Power on the evening of August 26 this year (afternoon and evening in the US).

According to a Muslim tradition with some variations, Mohammed supposedly received his first revelation of the Koran in the night as the 27th day of Ramadan began. On that night Muslims will recite ritual prayers over and over again in hope that if Allah is willing he will forgive their sins. Some also hope that angels will come down from heaven and grant special requests. Some Muslims will recite a profession of faith as many as 100 times in one night, speaking in Arabic, a language they may not even understand. Others will be more reflective, evaluating their life and planning for the next year.

Muslims believe that whatever acts they perform on the Night of Power will achieve greater merit in the eyes of Allah than the same acts done for 1,000 months. They are desperately seeking Allah’s approval, blessing, and forgiveness. Although they believe the Night of Power gives their prayers a greater probability of being granted, they have no guarantee that Allah will answer them.

Because many Muslims will observe the Night of Power this evening, please make note to pray for them on this day. Pray that they will see the emptiness of their recitations and that they will see their spiritual need as they evaluate their lives. Pray that they will come to know the true God and Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross.

For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride, to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword. Job 33:14-18