The contention over the importance of the night of mid-Shaʿbān, and more particularly its appropriate honouring—long a matter of respectful scholarly debate—has, more recently, and particularly in the light of national celebrations of one sort or another, become a divisive issue. What has to be read between the lines is the potential for discord that such issues provoke in distracting the ʿulamāʾ from more essential concerns facing the Umma today. In this paper, Dr. Alarfaj continues the noble t ...