The festival of Navratri is celebrated with prayers and gaiety. It is a period for self-reflection and getting back to the Source. Likewise, Eid ul-Fitr was celebrated last week by Muslims worldwide after a period of soul-purifying fasting during the month of Ramadan.
In Navratri, the seeker finds the true source through fasting, prayer, silence and meditation. Night is called ratri because it brings rest and rejuvenation.
It is interesting that the Quran also speaks of a Night – the night in which the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), thus bringing spiritual light to mankind.
While fasting detoxifies the body, silence purifies speech and brings rest to the mind, and meditation takes one deep into one’s being.
It is known that Prophet Muhammad received his first revelation during a period of fasting and meditation in the cave of Hira. (This is commemorated in the last part of Ramadan, in the night mentioned before, called Lailat al-Qadr). It is therefore important that one resorts to these methods of seeking communication with Almighty God.
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