سورة الواقعة

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Abu Bakr said, "O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family)! Old age has come to you quickly!?" He said, "Surah Hud, al-Waqi'a, al-Mursalat and 'Amma Yatasa'alun have made me old."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Whoever recites Surah al-Waqi'a every night will never suffer straitness in his provision.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Whoever recites Surah al-Waqi'a on the nights of Friday, Allah will love him and make him beloved to all people, and he will never face any hardship, poverty or need in the world, nor will he be afflicted by any of the calamities of this world, and he will be counted among the friends of Ali (peace be upon him). This Surah belongs exclusively to Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (peace be upon him), and no one shares in it with him.

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Whoever recites Surah al-Waqi'a before sleeping will meet Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, and his face will be radiant like the moon on the fourteenth night.

Imam Sajjad (peace be upon him): When the time of the passing of Ali ibn al-Husayn (peace be upon him) arrived, he lost consciousness, then opened his eyes and recited Surah إِذا وَقَعَتِ الْواقِعَةُ [When the Event befalls] and إِنَّا فَتَحْنا [Indeed, We have opened for you], and he said: They say, "الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِی صَدَقَنا وَعْدَهُ وَ أَوْرَثَنَا الْأَرْضَ نَتَبَوَّأُ مِنَ الْجَنَّهًِْ حَیْثُ نَشاءُ فَنِعْمَ أَجْرُ الْعامِلِینَ [Praise be to Allah who has fulfilled His promise to us and made the earth (Paradise) our inheritance, so that we may settle in Paradise wherever we wish. How excellent is the reward of those who work (righteously))]!" (Zumar/74). And at that very moment his soul was taken and he said nothing further.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): During the illness in which Abdullah ibn Mas'ud passed away, Uthman ibn Affan came to visit Abdullah ibn Mas'ud and said to him: "Shall we not order that a stipend be given to you [from the Bayt al-Mal]?" He said: "When I was in need of it, you withheld it from me, and now when I have no need of it, you give it to me!" He said: "It will be for your daughters." He said: "They have no need of it; I have ordered them to recite Surah al-Waqi'a, for I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family) say: 'Whoever recites Surah al-Waqi'a every night will never suffer poverty or hardship.'"

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): In this surah there are countless benefits. One of them is that if it is recited over a deceased person, he becomes subject to Allah's forgiveness; and another is that if it is recited over someone who is on the verge of death, Allah makes the departure of the soul from his body easy, and by the leave and permission of Allah the Exalted, he dies with ease.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Whoever longs for Paradise and its description should recite Surah al-Waqi'a.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Whoever recites this surah will not be among the uninformed and the heedless.

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): If this surah is written and placed in a house, goodness and blessing in that house will increase, and whoever makes a habit of reciting it, poverty and neediness will depart from him. Acceptance, preservation, success and financial ease are counted among the blessings of persevering in the recitation of this surah.

Imam Rida (peace be upon him): For every wart take seven grains of barley and recite over each grain seven times from the beginning of إِذا وَقَعَتِ الْواقِعَةُ لَیْسَ لِوَقْعَتِها کاذِبَةٌ خافِضَةٌ رافِعَةٌ إِذا رُجَّتِ الْأَرْضُ رَجّاً وَ بُسَّتِ الْجِبالُ بَسّاً فَکانَتْ هَباءً مُنْبَثّاً [When the great event comes to pass, there will be no denying its occurrence — abasing (some), exalting (others). When the earth is shaken violently, and the mountains are crumbled with (complete) crumbling, and become as dust scattered abroad] and وَ یَسْئَلُونَکَ عَنِ الْجِبالِ فَقُلْ یَنْسِفُها رَبِّی نَسْفاً فَیَذَرُها قاعاً صَفْصَفاً لا تَری فِیها عِوَجاً وَ لا أَمْتاً [And they ask you about the mountains, so say: My Lord will scatter them (as) dust; then He will leave it a level plain, in which you will see no crookedness nor any unevenness] (Taha/105-107). Then take each grain of barley, and rub it on each wart, and wrap those grains of barley in a new cloth, tie a stone to that cloth, and hide it in some place. The narrator said: I did so, and on the seventh day I looked at those warts and nothing of them remained; and it is fitting that this act be performed in the last days of the month.

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): One who has a wart should recite these verses seven times over it in the second half of the month: وَ مَثَلُ کَلِمَةٍ خَبیثَةٍ کَشَجَرَةٍ خَبیثَةٍ اجْتُثَّتْ مِنْ فَوْقِ الْأَرْضِ ما لَها مِنْ قَرارٍ [And the parable of an evil word is as an evil tree, uprooted from the surface of the earth, having no stability] (Ibrahim/26), and وَ بُسَّتِ الْجِبالُ بَسّاً فَکانَتْ هَباءً مُنْبَثّاً [And the mountains are crumbled with (complete) crumbling, and become as dust scattered abroad].