holy nights

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Salam,

Tonight is a special night for the "Turkish Islam" . 

"Mosque festivals are called Kandil, which means Candle. It is so called because all the mosques are illuminated and those are the nights on which Muslims pray for forgiveness and wish to see the right way of things to be done according to their religion.

The story of Kandil

The five holy evenings on the Muslim calendar are called Kandil. During the Ottoman Empire Sultan Selim II of 16th century lit candles on the minarets of the mosques in order to announce these holy nights to the public. Since this calendar is calculated with the revolution of the moon around the earth the dates of the Kandils differ every year.

Mevlid Kandili - The birth of Prophet Mohammad (January 23, 2013)
Regaip Kandili – The night of Muhammed's conception (May 16, 2013)
Miraç Kandili – Prophet Mohammad's rising to sky (June 5, 2013)
Berat Kandili – The forgiveness of the sins (June 23, 2013)
Kadir Gecesi – The Koran's first appearance to Prophet Mohammad (August 3, 2013)

These nights Muslims usually worship and sing Mevlit, a poem written for the birth of Prophet Mohammad. "

I want to point out that this tradition is inherited from the Ottomans- the Sultans who used to be the khalifa of the Islamic ummah- which is fiercely being defended by the Erdogan government.