NUMBERS can be imaginative. When I was a child, I was fascinated listening to the old people speaking about Lail tul qadr: the Night of Power better than a thousand months, the night of the revelation of the Quran, the 21st, 23rd, 25th, 27th and 29th nights of the month of Ramadan, when the outpouring of light would take place...

When I was grown up, I realized that the Quran does not state specifically which night in the holy month the revelation