Merits of Reciting Surah al-Ikhlas (from Imam Ali 'a)

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مروي عن الأئمة المعصومين عليهم السلام في كتب الأدعية والزيارات المعتبرة.
Virtues, description, and recitation method of Thirty-sixth: Imam 'Ali ('a) is also reported to have said that as recorded in Shia traditions.
IMPORTANCE OF RECITING قل هواللّه احد O worms!
آَيُّهَا الدُّوْدُ
آَيُّهَا الدَّوَابُّ وَالْهَوَآمُّ وَالْحَيْوَانَاتُ
O creeping creatures, vermin, and animals,
أُخْرُجُوْا مِنْ هَذِهِ الْاَرْضِ وَالزَّزْعِ إِلَى الْخَرَابِ
leave this land and plants towards the derelict lands,
كَمَا خَرَجَ ابْنُ مَتَّى مِنْ بَطْنِ الْحُوْتِ
in the same way as the son of Amittai left the belly of the big fish.
فَاِنْ لَمْ تَخْرُجُوًا
If you do not leave,
أَرسَلْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ شُوَاظًا مِنْ نَارٍ وَ نُحَاسٍ
I will send on you flames of fire and smoke;
فَلَا تَنْتَصِرَانِ
then you will not be able to defend yourselves.
اَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الْذِيْنَ خَرَجُوْا مِنْ دِيَارِهِمْ
"Have you not considered those who went forth from their homes
وَ هُمْ اُلُوُفٌ حَذَرَ الْمَوْتِ فَقَالَ
and they were thousands, for fear of death,
لَهُمُ اللهُ مُؤْثُوْا فَمَاتُوَا
then Allah said to them, 'Die'"' So, they died.
أُخْرُجُوْا مِنْهَا فَاِنَّكَ رَجِيْمٌ
"Get out of it, for surely you are driven away."
فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا خَائِفًا يَتَرَقْبُ
"So, he went forth therefrom, fearing, awaiting."
سُبْحَانَ الَّذِيّ اَسْرُى بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا
"Glory be to Him Who made His servant to go on a night
مِنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْاَقْصى
from the Sacred Mosque to the remote mosque."
كَاَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا
"On the day that they see it, it will be as though
لَمْ يَلْبَثُوَا اِلَّا عَشِيَّةً اَوْضُحَهَا
they had not tarried but the latter part of a day or the early part of it."
فَاَخْرَ جْنَاهُمْ مِنْ جَنَّاتٍ وَ عُيُوْنٍ
So, We sent them out of "gardens and fountains,
وَ زُرُوْعِ وَ مَقَامٍ كَرِيْمِ
cornfields and noble places,
وَ نَعْمَةٍ كَانُوْا فِيْهَا فَاكِهِيْنَ
and goodly things wherein they rejoiced."
فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّمَآءُ وَالْاَرْضُ
"So, the heaven and the earth did not weep for them
وَ مَا كَانُوْا مُنْظَرِيْنَ
nor were they respited."
أُخْرُج مِنْهَا فَمَا يَكُوْنُ لَكَ آَنْ تَتَكَبَّرَ فِيْهَا
Get out of it, "for it does not befit you to behave proudly therein.
فَاخْرُجْ اِنَّكَ مِنَ الصَاغِرِيْنَ
Go forth, therefore, surely you are of the abject ones."
أَخْرُج مِنْهَا مَذْوُ مَا مَدْحُوْرًا
"Get out of this (state), despised, driven away."
فَلَنَاْ تِيَنَّهُمْ بِجُنُوْدٍ لَا قِبَلَ لَهُمْ
"So, we will most certainly come to them with hosts which they shall have no power to oppose
وَ لَنُخْرِجَنَّهُمْ مِنْهَا آَذِلَّةً وَ هُمْ صَاغِرُوْنَ.
and we will most certainly expel them therefrom in
IMPORTANCE OF RECITING قل هو الله احد abasement, and they shall be in a state of ignominy."