Thus ask for Allah -azwj ’s help and refuge to protect your young ones...

Thus ask for Allah -azwj ’s help and refuge to protect your young ones, as they are vulnerable during those two occasions. [46] Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws said: whoever would recite 7 times, after offering Maghrib prayers, ‘Bismillah Irrahmannirrah Heem Lahol wa lahol wala Quwata il billah hay Aliyal Azeem’ Allah -azwj will keep away from him/her critical illness, minimum of these are fits, smallpox.

If a malicious person would recite it then Allah -azwj will erase his name from the list of nasty people and would consider him among those who are obedient to Him -azwj . [47] Imam Ali Raza -asws said: Allah -azwj will protect him/her from 100 troubles, including illness, i.e., plague, Parkinson, smallpox, deception of Iblis and brutality of ruler.

One should recite, after offering Magrib prayers, without shifting posture and talking to anyone ‘Bismillah Irrahmannirrah Heem Lahol wa lahol wala Quwata il billah hay Aliyal Azeem’. [48] The Best Wasifa to Recite : Ibn Mahboob heard from Ibn Zaid that he asked from Imam Mohammed Baqir -asws about Tasbeeh. Imam -asws replied I do not consider anything better than the ‘Tasbeeh-e-Fatimah -asws ’.

Recite after Fajr 10 times ‘la Ilaha Illillah wahadahu la Shareek lahu, Lahu AlMulk wala, Alhamdu hu Yuhyi wa Yumeetu wa huwa Ala Kul Shain Qadeer. Apart from these, you may recite what you like to please Allah -azwj .

[49] Prayers before going to Sleep and after Waking Up: Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws said, One should recite, prior to going to sleep, ‘Ya Allah -azwj , I submit my soul in your custody, please keep it at the place which is liked and blessed by You -azwj and return it to me in the state that it would embrace Aman, recognise the Rights of Your Divine Masomeen -asws and if You -azwj wish do not return it to me (in case of death) then recognise me with these beliefs.

[50] Imam Abu Jafar -asws said that Imam Ali -asws has recommend to pray to Allah -azwj (prior to going to sleep): ‘I want Your -azwj protection from experiencing ‘Junab’ during my sleep, from bad dreams and from the deceit of Iblis -la either during or after sleep. [51] A person came to Imam Jafar-e-Sadiq -asws and said, a woman scares me in my dreams.