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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Bundle of Flowers Congregation Prayer The Holy Prophet (S) said: "Verily, when one of His servants establishes a prayer in congregation and asks Him something which He does not grant, Allah will be ashamed until He fulfils it." Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 88, p. 4 Imam ‘Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha, the eighth Imam, (‘a) said: "The excellence of the congregational prayer, comparing with solitary prayer, is one rak'at to two thousand rak'ats." Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol.

88, p. 4 & Wasa'il-ush Shi'ah, vol. 8, p. 290 The Holy Prophet (S) said: "One prayer of a man in congregation is worthier than his forty years of prayers at home (alone)." Mustadrak-ul-Wasa'il, vol. 6, p.

446 The Holy Prophet (S) said: "The rows of my followers in the congregational prayer on the earth are like the rows of angels in the sky; and a rak'at of prayer in congregation is equivalent with twenty-four rak'ats, and every rak'at with Allah, Almighty and Glorious, is more beloved than forty years of worship.

Therefore, on the Day of Justice, when Allah gathers all human beings from the beginning to the end for Reckoning, there will be no believer who has attended the congregational prayer but for whom Allah will decrease the grievousness of the Day of Reckoning and after that the one will be told to enter Heaven. Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 88, p.

6 Once a blind man came to the Holy Prophet (S) and said that there was not anybody to take him to the mosque to attend the congregational prayer with him (S) when he heard the prayer call. Then the Holy Prophet (S) said: Stretch a thread from your house unto the mosque and attend the congregational prayer." At-Tahthib, vol. 3, p.

266 Imam al-Baqir (‘a) said: "The person who abandons the congregation (of prayer) without having an excuse but only for unwillingness, and in order to avoid attending the folk of Muslims, there will not be (considered) any prayer for him." Bihar-ul-Anwar, vol. 88, p.

11 Imam Ridha (‘a) said: "Certainly the congregational prayer has been decreed in order that the pure Faith in Unity, in Islam, and in worshipping Allah be openly revealed and (publicly) manifested, because, thereby and with its apparency the reason of Allah, Almighty and Glorious, will be completed for the totality of people in the East and West (of the world).