19 - Recommended Prayers

Chapter [Voluntary Prayers] The most virtuous physical voluntary act after Jihad and knowledge is voluntary prayer. The most certain of which is the eclipse then seeking rain then tarāwīḥ then witr; its least being 1 rakʿat and most being 11, the least complete being 3 with 2 salāms though 1 is permitted for the continuous. Its time is between al-ʿIshāʾ and al-Fajr and qunūt is done preferably after rukuʿ and thus is said, “O Allah, we seek Your help, Your guidance and Your forgiveness, and repent to you, we believe in You, trust in You and we praise You beneficently. We thank you and do not deny You. O Allah, You alone do we worship and to You we pray and bow down prostrate. To You we hasten to worship and to serve. Our hope is for Your mercy and we fear Your punishment. Surely, Your punishment of the disbelievers is at hand. O Allah, guide me with those whom You have guided, and strengthen me with those whom You have given strength. Take me to Your care with those whom You have taken to Your care. Bless me in what You have given. Surely, You command and are not commanded, and none whom You have committed to Your care shall be humiliated and none whom You have taken as an enemy shall taste glory. You are Blessed, Our Lord , and Exalted. O Allah, I seek refuge with Your Pleasure from Your anger. I seek refuge in Your forgiveness from Your punishment. I seek refuge in You from You I cannot count Your praises , You are as You have praised Yourself.” Then he prayes upon the Prophet, the maʾmūm says amīn, the individual singularizes the pronoun, then wipes over their face with their hands here and out of prayer.