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PRAYER ASSOCIATED TO IMAM MAHDI (A.S.)

(For the accomplishment of demands)

Khatoon Aabadi has associated this prayer to Imam Mahdi (a.s.) in his book ‘Jannatul Khulood’: Before sleeping at night, fill a clean utensil with water and keep it near your head, cover it with a clean piece of cloth and when you wake up for Salatul Layl (the night prayer), consume three drinks from that water and perform ablution with the rest. Stand facing the Qibla, say Azan and Iqamah, then offer a two Units prayer reciting whichever Surah you wish.

            After reciting the Surah, get into the position of Rukoo’ and say

«يا غِياثَ الْمُسْتَغيثينَ»

(O helper of those who seek help)

  twenty five times. Then raise your head from Rukoo’ and repeat this same line twenty five times, then repeat this act in the first Sajdah and after the first Sajdah, then in the second Sajdah and after it.

            Thereafter, rise for the second Unit and repeat the same act in the second Unit as well, with which you will complete the recitation of this line three hundred times. Then offer Tashah’hud and Salaam of this prayer, lift your head towards the sky and say,

 

«مِنَ الْعَبْدِ الذَّليلِ إِلَى الْمَوْلَى الْجَليلِ»

(From the humble servant towards the glorious Mas

thirty times, then mention your demands which will soon be accomplished by Allah’s will.[1]

            The author says: Mohaddith e Qummi has narrated this prayer in his book ‘Al Baqiyaatus Salihaat’ under the title ‘the Prayer of Isteghaasa’, but he has not associated it to Imam Mahdi (a.s.).