Surah Al-Qadr 97:1

إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ

97:1 Night (لَيْلَةِ) stands for a period of spiritual darkness and time of ignorance. A Prophets advent is always preceded by such darkness. When the Holy Prophet (pbuh) made his appearance, such darkness prevailed all over the globe, as the Holy Qur’ân testifies: “Disorder and corruption has prevailed on land and sea owing to the evil (deeds) which people have wrought” ظَهَرَ الْفَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ (30:41). Thus this Night was called the Night of Majesty, as in it the world received the greatest manifestation of Divine Light, and it gave to humanity its greatest teacher, and the last and the most perfect law. Generally the words lailلَيْل and lailahلَيْلَةِ both mean night, but, as the famous lexicographer Marzûqî indicates, the word lailلَيْل is used as opposed to nahâr and lailah as opposed to yaum, thus the word Lailahلَيْلَةِ possesses a wonder and more extensive meaning than lail as yaum, which in its opposite has a wider sense than nahâr, which is the opposite of lail. The word lailah has been used as many as eight times in the Holy Qur’ân: Three times in chapter 97, once in 2:51, 2:187 and 44:3 and twice in 7:142. In each instance, it has been used in connection with Divine Revelation. The Night of Majesty لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ thus refers to the dignity, the majesty and the greatness of those nights in which the Holy Qur’ân was revealed.