Prayer of the Night of Qadr (100 Rak'as)
The hundred-rak’a prayer of the Night of Qadr consists of 50 two-rak’a prayers performed on the Night of Qadr. In each rak’a of this prayer, Sura al-Ikhlas is recited ten times after Sura al-Fatiha.[1] In Mafatih al-Jinan, Shaykh Abbas Qumi has included this prayer among the practices common for all the Nights of Qadr.[2]
Based on a narration from Imam al-Baqir (a), whoever stays awake during the night of the twenty-third of Ramadan and performs a hundred rak’as of prayer will have their sustenance and livelihood increased and will be spared from the fear of the two angels Nakir and Munkar.[3]
In some Shia mosques, on each of the nights of the 19th, 21st, and 23rd of Ramadan, 100 rak’as of obligatory qada prayers are performed in congregation, which amounts to six days of missed prayers. According to the fatwa of Ayatullah Makarim Shirazi, one of the Shia marja’s, one may perform obligatory qada prayers on the Night of Qadr and benefit from the rewards of the practices of this night.[4]
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Notes
- ↑ Ibn Ṭāwūs, Iqbāl al-aʿmāl, vol. 1, p. 313.
- ↑ Qummī, Mafātīḥ al-jinān, p. 365.
- ↑ Ibn Ṭāwūs, Iqbāl al-aʿmāl, vol. 1, p. 386.
- ↑ The prayer of Night of Qadr does not substitute for missed obligatory prayers
References
- Ibn Ṭāwūs, ʿAlī b. Mūsā. Iqbāl al-aʿmāl. Edited by Jawād Qayyūmī. Daftar-i Tablīghāt-i Islāmī, 1376 SH.
- Qummī, Abbās. Mafātīḥ al-jinān. Qom: Maṭbūʿāt-i Dīnī, 1384 SH.
- The prayer of Night of Qadr does not substitute for missed obligatory prayers. (Persian). Accessed: 2025/03/16.
