Recommended in times of hardship
دعاء الفرج
Dua Faraj
The supplication of relief through the Imam of the Age, widely recited in difficulty.
Open text →Mafatih al-Jinan · Shaykh Abbas al-Qummi (d. 1359 AH)
Supplications and visitations arranged by when they are read: daily, weekly, monthly, by occasion and by sanctuary.
Connected texts only: Twelve texts are connected. The printed Mafatih contains several hundred; the rest are not ingested and nothing is reconstructed to fill them.
Not connected: the daily liturgical cycles of the printed work (Ta'qibat, the days of the week in full), the month-by-month programme outside Ramadan and Sha'ban, and the visitation texts outside the three connected.
For any day, and for the hours when a supplication is recommended.
Recommended in times of hardship
دعاء الفرج
The supplication of relief through the Imam of the Age, widely recited in difficulty.
Open text →Any time
الصحيفة السجادية — الدعاء الأول
The opening supplication of Imam Zayn al-Abidin's Sahifa: praise and glorification.
Open text →Bound to a night or dawn of the week.
Thursday night / Friday eve
دعاء كميل
Taught by Imam Ali to Kumayl ibn Ziyad al-Nakha'i, recited on the eve of Friday.
Open text →Tuesday night
دعاء التوسل
A supplication seeking intercession through the Prophet and the Imams, naming each in turn.
Open text →Friday dawn
دعاء الندبة
The supplication of lamentation, recited on the mornings of Friday.
Open text →Belonging to Rajab, Sha'ban and Ramadan.
Sha'ban
مناجات شعبانية
The whispered prayer transmitted in the month of Sha'ban.
Open text →Ramadan nights
دعاء الافتتاح
Recited on the nights of Ramadan, opening with praise and turning to the friends of God.
Open text →Ramadan at the time of dawn
دعاء أبي حمزة الثمالي
Taught by Imam Zayn al-Abidin and recited in the darkness before dawn in Ramadan.
Open text →Ramadan, nights of Qadr
دعاء الجوشن الكبير
The long supplication of the divine names, divided into a hundred sections.
Open text →Read on a day of the religious year.
Ashura, 10 Muharram
زيارة عاشوراء
The visitation of Imam Husayn at Karbala, transmitted through Imam al-Baqir.
Open text →Ziyarat, recited at a sanctuary or from a distance.
Ashura, 10 Muharram
زيارة عاشوراء
The visitation of Imam Husayn at Karbala, transmitted through Imam al-Baqir.
Open text →Any visitation
الزيارة الجامعة الكبيرة
The comprehensive visitation of the Imams, transmitted through Imam al-Hadi.
Open text →Visitation of Imam Ali
زيارة أمين الله
A short visitation narrated from Imam al-Sadiq, recited at the sanctuary of Imam Ali.
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