Friday
It is also advisable to recite supplications, offer prayers, implore for Almighty Allah’s forgiveness, and confess His Oneness (by repeating the phrase of la-ilaha illal-lahu –there is no god save Allah-) as much as possible in Ramaḍān. In this regard, Imam Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn al-’Abidin (a.s.) used to stop talking in Ramaḍān except with phrases of prayers, glorification of Almighty Allah, implorations of His forgiveness, and phrases of confessing of His magnificence (i.e. Takbir –saying: Allahu-akbar).
It is finally recommended to pay a great interest to the reported acts of worship as well as the supererogatory prayers at nights and days.
‘Allamah al-Hilli, in al-Risalah al-Sa’diyyah, has narrated that Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq(a.s.) said, “As for any believer who feeds another believer with a single bite of food in Ramaḍān, Almighty Allah will decide for him the reward of freeing thirty believing slaves and will decide to respond to his prayers.”
As for the first twenty nights of Ramaḍān, twenty units of this prayer should be offered at each night with an interval between each two units. To explain, eight units should be offered after the obligatory Maghrib Prayer and the others are performed after the obligatory Isha’ Prayer. The total is thus seven hundred units and the remainder is three hundred. These three hundred units should be offered at the Qadr Nights, which are the nineteenth, the twenty-first, and the twenty-third nights of the month. One hundred units should be offered at each of these three Qadr Nights. Thus, one thousand units are completed.
It is worth mentioning that other divisions of these one thousand units have been cited. Yet, these divisions will not be mentioned in this book for fear of lengthiness.
Our virtuous readers are expected to offer this prayer so as not to miss its great rewards and merits. It has been narrated that it is recommended to say the following supplication after the accomplishment of every two units of the supererogatory prayers (nawafil) in Ramaḍān: