3 Preface لَيلَةُ القَدرِ خَيرٌ مِن أَلفِ شَهرٍYusuf AliThe Night of Power is better than a thousand Months.1“A thousand” must be taken in an indefinite sense, as denoting a very long period of time. Cf. first n. to 32:4; n. to 36:5; and second n. to 70:4. This does not refer to our ideas of time, but to “timeless Time”. One moment of enlightenment under God’s Light is better than thousands of months or years of animal life, and such a moment converts the night of darkness into a period of spiritual glory.