SPECIAL QUALITIES OF SOME THE QUR'ANIC CHAPTERS AND VERSES

Consisting of forty items, this section demonstrates the distinctive features of some chapters and verses of the Holy Qur’an as well as other miscellaneous issues.

First: Shaykh al-Kulayni, in al-Kafi, has quoted Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (‘a) as saying, “Whoever recites the Qur’anic chapters that begin with glorification statements (al-musabbihat: Surahs al-Hadid, al-Hashr, al-Saff, al-Jumu’ah, al-Taghabun, and al-A’la) before he goes to sleep, will not die before he attends the reign of Imam al-Mahdi (‘a), and when he dies, he will be placed in the vicinity of Prophet Muhammad (s).”