Transliteration:( Innaaa anzalnaahu fee lailatim mubaarakah; innaa kunnaa munzireen )
1. By this night is meant the Night of Qadr, the 27th night of Ramadaan, or the Night of Ascension (Lailatul Me'raaj), or the Night of Acquittal (Lailatul Baraat), the 15th night of Shabaan. On this night, the entire QUR'AAN was brought down from Loh-e-Mahfooz (the Divine Tablet) to the worldly heaven. From here it was revealed portion by portion to the Holy Prophet of twenty-three years.
From this verse we learn that the night on which the Holy QUR'AAN was revealed is indeed a blessed night. In the same vein, the night on which the Possessor of the QUR'AAN was born is just as blessed and bountiful.
The tafsir of Surah Ad-Dukhan verse 3 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Dukhan ayat 1 which provides the complete commentary from verse 1 through 8.
1. The meaning of taking an oath by the lucid Scripture has been explained in (Surah Az-Zukhruf, ayat 1) note 1. Here also what has been sworn by is that Muhammad (peace be upon him) is not the author of this Book but We are the author, and this Book by itself is enough to provide a proof of that. Furthermore, it has been said that the night in which it was revealed was full of blessings. That is, the foolish and ignorant people, who have no idea of their own well being or otherwise, regard the revelation of this Book as a disaster for themselves and are deeply anxious as how to get rid of it. But, as a matter of fact, the Hour when We decided to send down this Book to arouse the heedless, was highly blessed for them and for all mankind.
Some commentators have expressed the opinion that the meaning of sending down the Quran in that night is that its revelation began during that night, and some others think that the whole of the Quran was transferred from Umm-ul- Kitab and entrusted to the bearers of revelation (angels), and then revealed to the Prophet (peace be upon him) as and when required and demanded by the occasion and circumstances during 23 years. As to what actually happened Allah alone has the best knowledge.
The night implies the same night which has been called lailat-ul-qadr in (Surah Al-Qadr, Ayat 1), There it has been said: We sent it down in a night of glory, and here: We sent it down in a blessed night. It was the night of the month of Ramadhan, as it is said in (Surah Al-Baqarah, Ayat 185): Ramadhan is the month in which the Quran was revealed.
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