Laylat al-Qadr, ‘Night of Power,’ Islamic festival that commemorates the night on which God first revealed the Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Jibril (Gabriel). It is also celebrated as a night when the angels descend to earth, leadin
banished, they settled in Mecca, near which they had found relief and water at the Well of Zamzam. Later, in nearby Minā, Abraham attempted to sacrifice Ishmael (rather than Isaac, as stated in the Old Testament), an eventcommemoratedonEid al-Adhaand in the rituals of thehajj(pilgrimage)...