This is one of the incidents he has narrated regarding his...

This is one of the incidents he has narrated regarding his habit of regularly praying Salatu'l Layl: He says, “In my student days when I was in Madressa-e- Faydhiyyah in Qum, it was a very difficult time and we had very little money, even for our basic necessities. One year, in which the night of 15th Sha'ban coincided with the coldest days of winter, the weather in Qum was so cold that even water would turn into ice in a few moments.

That night I had gone for a Majlis, which had been arranged in honour of our 12th Imam, Imam al-Mahdi (A.S.). When I returned, the doors of the Madressa were already locked. The doors of the Haram were also closed. The night was also bitterly cold. However, because of my unfailing habit of reciting Salatu'l Layl regularly, I stood next to the outside door of the Haram, and began to pray in the open.

No sooner had I finished my prayers, I saw that a pilgrim who was speaking in Turkish had come to the doors. He asked me when the Haram would open. I said, 'it would open in about one to two hours'. Hearing this, he said, “Because my friends are waiting for me, I cannot wait that long. But please do me a favour.

Take these candles for me, and place them wherever it is dark in the Haram, and light them on my behalf.” Before I could say anything, he gave me those candles and a bag of money as a gift and then he quickly departed. I took the candles and the money he gave me as a gift. When I counted the money, I saw that it was 500 Tumans, which was a considerable sum in those days. I thought for a long time that why would a pilgrim give such a large gift to an unknown person like me.

However, later on it dawned on me that this must be a divine plan by Allah swt and the barakat of regularly praying Salatu'l Layl. That money helped me solve many of the difficulties I was facing at the time. And indeed, this is only one small example of the benefit of Salatu'l Layl, both in this world and Insha'Allah in the next.” Source: “Karamat-e Ma'nawi” - “Spiritual Miracles” p. 33. Translated AJ/141205…