Prayers for the nights of Ramadhan

Text and Translation

In Zad al-Ma’ad, ‘Allamah al-Majlisi has referred to the prayers of Ramadan nights in the last chapter of the recommended rites of Ramadan. Hereby, I will refer to these prayers as briefly as mentioned in the book involved:

The First Night Prayer: Four units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Tawheed fifteen times.

The Second Night Prayer: Four units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Qadr twenty times.

The Third Night Prayer: Ten units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Tawheed fifty times.

The Fourth Night Prayer: Eight units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Qadr twenty times.

The Fifth Night Prayer: Two units with Surah al-Faatehah and Surah al-Tawheed fifty times. After accomplishment, SWALAWAT is repeated one hundred times:

The Sixth Night Prayer: Four units with Surah al-Faatehah and Surah al-Mulk (No. 67).

The Seventh Night Prayer: Four units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Qadr thirteen times.

The Eighth Night Prayer: Two units with Surah al-Faatehah and Surah al-Tawheed ten times. After accomplishment, SUBHANA ALLAH is repeated one thousand times:

The Ninth Night Prayer: Six units offered between the Maghrib and Isha’ obligatory Prayers with Surah al-Faatehah and Ayah al-Kursi seven times. After accomplishment, SWALAWAT is repeated fifty times:

The Tenth Night Prayer: Twenty units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Tawheed thirty times.

The Eleventh Night Prayer: Two units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Kawthar (No. 108) twenty times.

The Twelfth Night Prayer: Eight units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Qadr thirty times.

The Thirteenth Night Prayer: Four units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Tawheed twenty-five times.

The Fourteenth Night Prayer: Six units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Zalzalah (No. 99) thirty times.

The Fifteenth Night Prayer: Four units; in the first two units, Surah al-Faatehah is recited once and Surah al-Tawheed repeated one hundred times. In the last two units, Surah al-Faatehah is recited once and Surah al-Tawheed repeated fifty times.

The Sixteenth Night Prayer: Twelve units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Takathur (No. 102) twelve times.

The Seventeenth Night Prayer: Two units with Surah al-Faatehah once and any selected Surah in the first unit and Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Tawheed one hundred times. After accomplishment, LA ILAHA ILLA ALLAH is repeated one hundred times:

The Eighteenth Night Prayer: Four units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Kawthar twenty-five times.

The Nineteenth Night Prayer: Fifty units with Surah al-Faatehah and Surah al-Zalzalah (No. 99).

The Twentieth to Twenty-Fourth Nights Prayer: At these nights, it is recommended to offer an eight unit prayer with any selected Surahs.

The Twenty-Fifth Night Prayer: Eight units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Tawheed ten times.

The Twenty-Sixth Night Prayer: Eight units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Tawheed one hundred times.

The Twenty-Seventh Night Prayer: Four units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Surah al-Mulk. If this is impossible, replace Surah al-Mulk with repeating Surah al-Tawheed twenty-five times.

The Twenty-Eighth Night Prayer: Six units with Surah al-Faatehah once and Ayah al-Kursi one hundred times, Surah al-Tawheed one hundred times, and Surah al-Kawthar one hundred times. After accomplishment, SWALAWAT is repeated one hundred times:

According to my own readings in the books of narrations, I found that the prayer of the twenty-eighth night of Ramadan consists of six units with Surah al-Faatehah once, Ayah al-Kursi ten times, Surah al-Kawthar ten times, and Surah al-Tawheed ten times. After accomplishment the same aforementioned invocation is repeated one hundred times.

The Twenty-Ninth Night Prayer: Two units with Surah al-Faatehah and Surah al-Tawheed twenty times.

The Thirtieth Night Prayer: Twelve units with Surah al-Faatehah and Surah al-Tawheed twenty times. After accomplishment, SWALAWAT is repeated one hundred times:

Note that each two units of all of the aforementioned prayers should be separated by uttering the Taslim statement.