Suggested Prayers for Laylatul Qadr

Laylatul Qadr

The Laylatul Qadr is better than a thousand months. (Al Qadr 97:3)

Prayers offered with sincerity on this auspicious Night of Power will have unlimited rewards.

General procedures for special nights and occasions

A. Do namaz [prayer].

B. Do your daily wazifa [assignment].

C. Do the special prayer, zikr, dua:

1. 2 rakat Mid-night namaz,
in each rakat 101 times Suratul Ikhlas:

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Qul Hu Allahu Ahad
Allahus – Samad
Lam yalid wa lam yulad
Wa lam yakun lahu kufuwan Ahad
(Al Ikhlas 112:1-4)

After each Ikhlas, everybody says ‘Allahu Akbar‘ and they have to mean it. Imagine yourself in space. “Allahu Akbar.” This ‘Allahu Akbar‘ has to reverberate or echo in the universe.

(Mid-night prayer is not necessarily at midnight, but in the middle of the Isha and Fajr prayers time-wise. Consider the number of hours between Isha time and Fajr time. Divide by two. Then determine the Mid-night prayer time. For example, if Isha is at 8 pm and Fajr at 6 am, then between 8 pm and 6 am there are 10 hours. (10 / 2 = 5) In this case, Mid-night prayer is at 1 am.

2. 101 times Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

3. 3 times each of the Qadiri and Rifai Virds
(applicable for AQRT murids only)

4. 101 times the following:
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Sub-hana Rabbika Rabbil – izzati amma yasifun
Wa Salaamun ‘alal – mursalin
Wal hamdu lillahi Rabbil ‘alamin
(Al Saffat 37: 180 – 182)

5. 7 times Suratul Qadr:
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Inna anzalna hu fi laylatil qadr
Wa ma adraka ma laylatul qadr
Laylatul qadri khayrun min alfi shahr
Tanazzalul malaa-ikatu war-Ruhu fiha bi-izni Rabbihim min kulli amr:
Salaamun hiya hatta matla’il fajr.
(Al Qadr 97:1-5)

6. 501 times (thinking of the world)
Ya Wadud Ya Salaam Ya Jami Ya Nafi

7. 101 times each of the Positivity Prayers for you, your family, your community, your country, and the world.

8. Make dua for your Shaykh and Shaykha, and for your descendants, and the Pirs and their families.

Do the best you can!

Love, Peace and Togetherness in Goodness
Ya Wadud Ya Salaam Ya Jami Ya Nafi