One Thousand Unit Prayers

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ONE THOUSAND UNIT PRAYERS One of the recommended acts in the month of Ramadan is to offer the one thousand unit prayer. Master scholars have referred to this prayer in their books of jurisprudence and
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acts of worship. However, the way of offering this prayer has been mentioned by narrations in many forms. According to the report of Ibn Abi-Qurrah from Imam Muhammad al- Jawad(a.s.) that is also adopted by Shaykh al-Mufid in his
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book of al-Ghariyyah wa'l-Ashraf, this prayer, in its most familiar form, is offered as follows:
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As for the first twenty nights of Ramadan, 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
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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
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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
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thousand units have been cited. Yet, these divisions will not be mentioned in this book for fear of lengthiness.
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Our virtuous readers are expected to offer this prayer so as not to miss its great rewards and merits.
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It has been narrated that it is recommended to say the following supplicatory prayer after the accomplishment of every two units of the supererogatory (mustahab / nafilah) prayers (nawafil) in Ramadan:
اَللهُمَّ اجْعَلْ فِيْمَا تَقْضِي وَتُقَدَّرُ
Oh God, make what you decree and decree
مِنَ الْأَمْرِ الْمَحْتُوْمِ،
It is inevitable,
وَفِيْمَا تَفْرُقُ مِنَ الْأَمْرِ الْحَكِيمِ، فِيْ لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ،
And as you separate from the wise matter, in the Night of Decree,
آَنْ تَجْعَلَنِي مِنْ حُجَّاجٍ بَيْتِكَ الْحَرَامِ،
Make me one of the pilgrims to Your Sacred House,
الْمَبْرُوْرِ حَجُّهُمُ
Their Hajj is accepted
الْمَشْكُوْرِ سَعْيُهُمْ،
Thankful for their efforts,
الْمَغْفُوْرِ ذُنُوْبُهُمُ،
whose sins are forgiven,
وَاَساَلَكَ اَنْ تُطِيْلَ عُمْرِيْ فِيْ طَاعَتِكَ،
I ask you to prolong my life in obedience to you.
وَتُوَسَّعَ لِيْ فِيْ رِزْقِيْ،
And my livelihood was expanded for me,
يَا اَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِيْنَ.
O Most Merciful of those who show mercy.