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Ehya night
Shia Islamic tradition / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ehya (Arabic: احیاء, Persian: اِحیا) or Vigil night[1] (spending the night in prayer) is one of the most important traditions among Shia Muslims. According to most commentators, vigil for the purpose of night prayer, as it appears from Surah Al-Muzzammil of the Quran was obligatory for about a year at the beginning of Islam, and Muslims performed it alongside the Islamic prophet Muhammad. According to most Islamic jurists and commentators, after about a year, according to verse 21 of the same surah, God reduced this ruling and replaced it with tahajjud.[2][3][4] Muslims observe Ehya or Vigil night on the nineteenth, twenty-first and twenty-third nights of the Islamic month of Ramadan.[5][6][7]
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