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'''Thankfulness Prayer''' or '''Al-Shukr Prayer''' (Arabic: {{ia|صَلاةُ الشُّکْر}}) is a [[recommended prayer]] performed to thank and express gratitude to [[God]]. Thankfulness Prayer does not have a special form, time or conditions and is performed as a normal "two-[[rak'a]] prayer". Like other recommended prayers, it can be performed while sitting, standing, walking, inside a vehicle, etc. But, it is better to be performed while standing.<ref>Yazdī, ''al-ʿUrwa al-wuthqā'', vol. 2, p. 11.</ref> | '''Thankfulness Prayer''' or '''Al-Shukr Prayer''' (Arabic: {{ia|صَلاةُ الشُّکْر}}) is a [[recommended prayer]] performed to thank and express gratitude to [[God]]. Thankfulness Prayer does not have a special form, time or conditions and is performed as a normal "two-[[rak'a]] prayer". Like other recommended prayers, it can be performed while sitting, standing, walking, inside a vehicle, etc. But, it is better to be performed while standing.<ref>Yazdī, ''al-ʿUrwa al-wuthqā'', vol. 2, p. 11.</ref> | ||
However, a Thankfulness Prayer is narrated from [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]] with a special instruction as below: | However, a Thankfulness Prayer is narrated from [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]] with a special instruction as below: | ||
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In some sources, it is instructed to recite the du'a of | |When you are bestowed a divine [[blessing]], perform two rak'as of prayer. In the first rak'a, recite [[Qur'an 1]] (Sura al-Fatiha) and then [[Qur'an 112]] (Sura al-Ikhlas) and in the second rak'a, recite Qur'an 1 first and then recite [[Qur'an 109]] (Sura al-Kafirun). In [[ruku']] and [[sajda]] of the first rak'a say: | ||
|اَلْحَمْدُ لِلهِ شُکْراً شُکْراً وَ حَمْداً | |||
|All praise, thankfulness and gratitude belong to Allah | |||
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|and, in ruku' and sajda of the second rak'a, say: | |||
|اَلْحَمْدُ لِلهِ الَّذِی اسْتَجَابَ دُعَائِی وَ أَعْطَانِی مَسْأَلَتِی | |||
|All praise belongs to God who fulfilled my [[du'a]] and met my request. | |||
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|In some sources, it is instructed to recite the following du'a in ruku' and sajda of both rak'as | |||
|اَلحَمدُ لِلهِ شُکراً شُکراً لله وَ حَمداً | |||
|All praise belongs to [[Allah]], gratitude and praise belong to Allah | |||
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|and to recite this du'a after the end of the [[prayer]]: | |||
|اَلحمدُ للهِ الَّذی قَضا حَاجَتی وَ أعطانی مَسأَلَتی | |||
|All praise belongs to the Allah Who fulfilled my need and met my request.}}<ref>Kulaynī, ''al-Kāfī'', vol. 3, p. 481; Ṭūsī, ''Miṣbāḥ al-mutahajjid'', vol. 2, p. 532.</ref> | |||
Also, it is [[recommended]] to recite du'a of [[Imam al-Sajjad (a)]] which is mentioned in ''[[al-Sahifat al-Sajjadiyya]]'' after the Thankfulness Prayer.<ref>''Al-Sahifat al-Sajjadiyya'', p. 162.</ref> | Also, it is [[recommended]] to recite du'a of [[Imam al-Sajjad (a)]] which is mentioned in ''[[al-Sahifat al-Sajjadiyya]]'' after the Thankfulness Prayer.<ref>''Al-Sahifat al-Sajjadiyya'', p. 162.</ref> |