lead an ascetic life, by keeping himself to the mosque and giving up all worldly affairs. There are various ḥadīth showing that the Muslims should look for this night as one of the odd nights in the last ten nights of Ramadzān (Bu. 32:3) or in the last seven nights (Bu. 32 :2). According to some ḥadīth it is the twenty-fifth or twenty-seventh or twenty-ninth night of Ramadzān. One ḥadīth says that some of the Companions of the Holy Prophet were shown lailat al-Qadr in their dreams in the last seven nights (MM. 7:9—i). It should be borne in mind that lailat al-Qadr is a spiritual experience, as it was the spiritual, not the physical, experience of the Holy Prophet, and as the last-quoted ḥadīth shows, it was the spiritual experience of the Companions, and therefore it is an error to think that it can be beheld as a physical experience, or that any physical change is witnessed on that night. It is the spiritual experience of the man who exerts himself in Ramadzān to seek nearness to the Divine Being.