Laylatul Qadr: Step by Step Guide



Laylatul Qadr: Step by Step Guide

1. Start preparing for it at Fajr time. After Fajr Salah make sure you do the morning dhikr especially ‘La ila illahu wahdau la sharika lahu, lahul mulku walahul hamd wahuwa ‘ala kulli shayin qadeer ‘’ 100 times. The Prophet said whoever says it 100 times in the morning and evening, 100 good deeds will be recorded for you and 100 evil deeds will be erased from your tab, and you will be protected from the shaytan. Important issue here is that you will be free from the whisperings of the shaytan to prepare for the Night of Power.

2. Treat Iftar to a fasting person, either by inviting him to your house, or by buying the food for him and sending it to him. The Prophet said that whoever breaks another person’s fast he will receive the same reward as the person without his reward being diminished.

3. When the day breaks make as much dua as possible that Allah helps you and makes it easy for you to worship Him during this night.

4. If you haven’t payed your Zakat money pay it this night as the rewards will be magnified. If you have then prepare some sadaqa to give in the way of Allah. Remember charity burns our sins as fire burns wood.

5. During the course of the day try and avoid people as much as possible (except those who need your support). This way you will not be harmed nor will you harm anyone. Thus entering the night with clean heart and mind.

6. Throughout the daytime make sure you perform the obligatory duties such as prayer on time with the sunnahs. Repeat after the mu’dhin and make the necessary supplications. (see Hisnul Muslim).

7. When you break your fast, make sure you’re mindful that Allah may not accept your fasting, so you should yearn for and anticipate His mercy and reward. Supplicate also with the following dua ‘’allahumma ‘ainni wa waffiqni li qiyami Laylatul qadr’ O Allah help me and facilitate for me to worship you in this Night’.

8. Constantly make the chosen dua for this night ‘’Allahumma innaka ‘afuwun tuhibbul ;afwa fa’fu ‘anni’’ O Allah you the Most Forgiving, and You love to forgive, so forgive me’’

9. If you have parents, make sure you are dutiful towards them. Break Iftar with them and fulfil all their needs.

10. If you are not in good terms with a family member try and resolve it before the night starts.

11. If you can, do a bath and perform wudhu like the Prophet.

12. Put on clean clothes and put nice perfume on before going to the Mosque

13. When you enter the Mosque perform all the etiquettes of the Mosque. Try not to speak to people too much, just focus all your energy to be alone with Allah.

14. Pray the salahs with khushu and try to cry, if tears are not coming out try and make them come out ( and I DONT mean you should cut onions in the Mosques ()

15. When you return home make sure you are still doing the dhikr of Allah.

16. When you arrive at your house, eat and make dua, make wudhu and take some rest (sleep) if you need to. Your sleep will be counted as ibadah.

17. Wake up in due time and pray Tahajjud, eat and then pray fajr. After fajr, read the Qur’an, make constant dua and plead to Allah to forgive you. Do that and the morning dhikr until sunrise, all the while being mindful of the presence of the angels.

18. Remember this is the night in which Allah decrees your rizq for the coming year, so implore Allah; cry your heart out as they say so that He may give you what you desire. Don’t think what you’re asking for is too much for Allah, nothing you ask will decrease His dominion. You want money ask Him, you want a wife/husband ask Him, you want a job ask Him, you want children ask Him, you want peace of heart ask Him, anything you desire ask. Remember that you must focus and concentrate when you pray and make dua. Your knife needs to be sharp.

19. When you make dua remember that there certain etiquettes you have to follow. 1) Praise Allah first, 2) then send salutations upon the Prophet, 3) then pray for the Ummah and make dua for your parents, family etc, 4) and finally make dua for yourself. Try and follow this order as much as you can.

20. And finally pleeeeeeeeese don’t forget to make dua for me: Abdullah Hasan (

Laylatul Qadr Checklist

Required activities and deeds |21st |23rd |25th |27th |29th |Comments | |Woke up for Fajr and Pray the fard with its sunnah | | | | | | | |Made my morning Dhikr with the dua mentioned above | | | | | | | |Prayed all the 13 rak’at of Sunnah during the day | | | | | | | |Avoided mixing with people too much – including facebook, twitter etc | | | | | | | |Kiss * and made up with people who I am not in good terms with | | | | | | | |Helped doing the household chores

| | | | | | | |Helped my parents – fulfil their needs

| | | | | | | |Had a bath /shower

| | | | | | | |Made sure that I have clean clothes to wear | | | | | | | |Treated another person to Iftari

| | | | | | | |Collected my Zakah /Sadaqa money to give in the Mosque | | | | | | | |Memorised the chosen dua/supplication

| | | | | | | |Made sure that I am psyched up for the power of this night | | | | | | | |Made sure that I do not twaddle or argue with anyone in the Mosque | | | | | | | |Made sure that I did not backbite anyone

| | | | | | | |*kiss is only for sisters(, and it’s only on the cheeks

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