{"id":51395,"date":"2022-04-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/news\/night-of-destiny-night-of-unpretentious-servants-combining-selfishness-and-godliness-impossible-ayatollah-ramazani\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:22:45","slug":"night-of-destiny-night-of-unpretentious-servants-combining-selfishness-and-godliness-impossible-ayatollah-ramazani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/news\/night-of-destiny-night-of-unpretentious-servants-combining-selfishness-and-godliness-impossible-ayatollah-ramazani\/","title":{"rendered":"Night of Destiny night of unpretentious servants\/combining selfishness and godliness impossible: Ayatollah Ramazani"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to the AhlulBayt World Assembly News Portal: <\/strong>At dawn on Saturday, April 23, 2022, the vigil of the Night of Destiny (Laylat al-Qadr) on twenty-first night of the holy month of Ramadan, and the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Ali (a.s.) in the Hashemi Mosque in Rasht, Ayatollah Ramazani stated, \u201cOn the night of destiny, we must ask God to increase our capacity and grant us as much as our capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pointing out that the Night of Destiny is one of the nights in which man can increase his capacity, the Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly added, \u201cNight of Destiny is a divine feast hosted by angels on behalf of God, and we are its guests.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the holy month of Ramadan, whether we like it or not, we are taken to the divine feast,\u201d he clarified, \u201cEveryone enjoys and benefits this feast to the best of his ability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must increase our understanding because there is no obstacle from God. Rather, we must remove the obstacles that exist on our part,\u201d Ayatollah Ramazani noted, stating that our view of ourselves should be accurate and far from superficiality.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Night of Destiny, we must first seek forgiveness from those to whom we owe, and then ask God for forgiveness. It is not possible on the Night of Destiny, we say \u201cO God! Forgive us\u201d while slandering others and talking behind their backs,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust saying \u201cO God! Forgive us\u201d does not forgive the sin of slander. These very (spiritual) obstacles hinder us to progress,\u201d added the representative of the people of Gilan in the Assembly of Leadership Experts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must distance ourselves from the superficial and ordinary view of ourselves and religion and pay attention to the inside. Many people are preoccupied with superficial matters. However, just praying does not lead to deep understanding,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main factors for believing in God are three things: Ma\u2019arefat (understanding), piety and self-cultivation, and sincerity. There are three obstacles to believing in God: ignorance, moral vices, and polytheism,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome also point to other factors that lead to belief in God, such as Dhikr, worship, recourse, and service to others. While all these factors fall within the three categories mentioned,\u201d continued the Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cTypes of Ma\u2019arefat (understanding) include sensory understanding, intellectual understanding and heart understanding. Everyone knows God in some way, and the best understanding and knowledge is the heart understanding,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is everything we want at the feast of the holy month of Ramadan,\u201d Ayatollah Ramazani clarified, \u201cThe Night of Destiny is the night of the Guardian of God. That is, this night is the most accurate, best, and most virtuous time to communicate with Imam Mahdi (a.s.) so that we can benefit from his prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pointing out that in order to achieve belief in God, man must consider himself a servant of God and should not be arrogant, the representative of the people of Gilan in the Assembly of Leadership Experts said, \u201cHe who is arrogant will not believe in God; the one who is arrogant is not supported by (God), instead, the humble people are supported (by God) on these nights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHeart understanding causes human life to become a faithful life with wisdom and love. We must maintain the love that is placed in us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must put aside egoism because it is not possible to have combine selfishness and godliness simultaneously,\u201d said Ayatollah Ramazani, pointing out that in order to gain godliness, one must be in the great field of jihad and struggle.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Nights of Destiny, everyone should speak honestly with God,\u201d the Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly said, \u201cIn these virtuous nights, we must train our souls through self-cultivation and refinement through heart understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is valuable to God is humility,\u201d he said, referring to the story of Prophet Jonah (a.s.), and that the Prophet\u2019s crying, praying and glorifying God saved him from the whale\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll worldly possessions are sedition and temptation,\u201d Ayatollah Ramazani emphasized, \u201cIn the Hereafter, no title, wealth, comrade or friendship will accompany man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom prison in this world, one can be released on bail. But in the Hereafter, no one will help man. In the Hereafter, only God Almighty will help man and deal with us according to our deeds,\u201d concluded the representative of the people of Gilan in the Assembly of Experts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pointing out that in order to gain godliness, one must be in the great field of jihad and struggle, the Secretary-General of the AhlulBayt (a.s.) World Assembly said, \u201cWe must put aside egoism because it is not possible to have combine selfishness and godliness simultaneously.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":408278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,58],"tags":[197,1767],"class_list":["post-51395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-secretary-general","tag-ayatollah-reza-ramazani","tag-qadr-nights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408281,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51395\/revisions\/408281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahlulbaytworldassembly.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}