7/24/2019 Salat Birr Al-Walidain - Prayer of Filial Piety

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alt Birr al-WlidainPrayer of Filial Piety

his is a special prayer for parents by children and is amongst the goodly works one can performto thank and benefit ones parents. It is 2-cycles [rakaatain] and recommended to be prayed on

Friday night (Thursday evening) between Maghrib and Isha.

On completion, recite Salawatupon the Prophet 25 times and intend the reward for your parents.

If possible, recite the supplication Du birr al-Wlidain. Many traditional scholars and Sufi

Sheikhs highly recommend that this prayer be regularly established.

ow to Pray

First cycle Al-Ftia followed by the following verse [yah] 15 times:

Allah! There is no god but He,-the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him nor sleep. His are all

things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what

(appeareth to His creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as

He willeth. His Throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving

them for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory).

Second cycle Al-Ftia followed by the following chapter [srah] 15 times:

In the name of Allah, the Universally Merciful, the Singularly Compassionate. Say: He is Allah, the One and Only;

Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him.

Source

Sheikh Talal Azem mentions this prayer in his Prayers of Occasions as follows:

My father (may Allah Most High have mercy upon him) said, It is mentioned in Shar al-Shirah: The prayer

for ones parents [alt al-wlidain] is a Sunnah, due to the saying of the Prophet : Whoever prays two cycles

[rakaatain] on the eve of Friday, between the sunset [ maghrib] and nightfall [ish] prayers, in which he recites

in each cycle (a) the Fatihaonce, (b) Ayat al-Kursi(Koran 2:255) fifteen times (i.e. in the first cycle), (c) Qul huwa

Allahu ahad(Koran 112) fifteen times (i.e. in the second cycle); (d) sends benedictions upon the Prophet (Allah

bless him and give him peace) twenty-five times (i.e. after completion of the prayer); (e) and then intends that

the reward be for his parentswhoever does this will have fulfilled the rights of his parents and perfected his

filial piety, even if he had been undutiful towards them. Allah Most High will bestow him with that which He

bestows upon those of great faith and the martyrs. This has been mentioned in the abridgement of [Imam al-

Ghazzalis] Ihy ulm al-dn.

AL-NABULSI, Abd al-Ghani (d. 1142/1731). Nihayat al-Murad fi sharh Hadiyyat Ibn al-Imad. Dubai: Markaz Jumuah al-Majid li-al-Thaqafah wa al-Turath, 1414/1994.

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