According to the position you preferred that the Night of Decree moves, there is an objection and a difficulty, which is that it is well known that the decrees for the coming year are written on the Night of Decree.

The questioner : May Allah reward you. This questioner says: O honorable Shaykh, according to the position you preferred that the Night of Decree moves, there is an objection and a difficulty, which is that it is well known that the decrees for the coming year are written on the Night of Decree. For example, if the Night of Decree were on the night of the twenty-fifth, the decrees would be written up to the twenty-fifth of the coming year. But if the Night of Decree came on the night of the twenty-first in the coming year, the decrees would be written for the year after that. However, there are three nights—the twenty-second, twenty-third, and twenty-fourth—whose decrees have been written for the coming year, and their decrees will also be written on the night of the twenty-first. What is the answer to this difficulty?

The Shaykh : In reality, there is no difficulty in this, because the twenty-first night of the past or current year is the twenty-first night. If Allah decrees that the twenty-first night is the Night of Decree in the past year, and Allah decrees that the Night of Decree is in this year, there is no contradiction. And if Allah decrees that it is on the twenty-third or twenty-fifth night, there is no contradiction either. But what some people think is that when we say "the Night of Decree," we mean the specific night named the Night of Decree, and that is not the case. Because the Night of Decree is a concept that circulates throughout all the last ten nights. If it were not so, ijtihad would be confined to a specific night and would not extend beyond it. Yes.