LAḤD (لحد). The hollow made in a grave on the Qiblah side, in which the corpse is placed. It is made the same length as the grave, and is as high as would allow a person to sit up in it.
LĀHŪT (لاهوت). Lit. “Extinction” or “absorption.” (1) The last stage of the mystic journey. (2) Divinity. (3) Life penetrating all things. [[SUFIISM].]
LAḤYĀN (لحيان). A branch of the Huẕail tribe, which inhabited, in the days of Muḥammad, as they still do, the vicinity of Makkah. Muḥammad formed an expedition against them, A.H. 6, on account of their treacherous attack on a small party of Muslims at Rajī.
LAILATU ʾL-BARĀʾAH (ليلة البراءة). [[SHAB-I-BARAʾAH].]
AL-LAILATU ʾL-MUBĀRAKAH (الليلة المباركة). Lit. “The Blessed Night.” [[LAILATU ʾL-QADR].]
LAILATU ʾL-QADR (ليلة القدر). “The night of power.” A mysterious night, in the month of Ramaẓān, the precise date of which is said to have been known only to the Prophet and a few of the Companions. The following is the allusion to it in the Qurʾān. Sūratu ʾl-Qadr (xcvii.):—
“Verily we have caused it (the Qurʾān) to descend on the Lailatu ʾl-Qadr.
“Who shall teach thee what the Lailatu ʾl-Qadr is?
“The Lailatu ʾl-Qadr excelleth a thousand months:
“Therein descend the angels, and the spirit by permission