سورة نوح

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) said: Whoever believes in Allah and recites His Book does not abandon the recitation of the surah إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَی قَوْمِهِ [Indeed We sent Nuh to his people]. Any servant who recites it patiently, seeking the reward of the hereafter, in an obligatory or recommended prayer, Allah the Exalted will lodge him in the dwellings of the righteous, and, in addition to his own paradise, will bestow upon him out of nobility and honour three further paradises, and, if Allah the Exalted wills, will give him in marriage two hundred houris of paradise and four thousand widowed women.

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Ahmad ibn Fadl [narrates from] Abu Amr al-Hadhdha [who] said: "My condition became bad, so I wrote [a letter to seek recovery] to Imam Baqir (peace be upon him). He wrote to me: 'Continue reciting إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَی قَوْمِهِ.' I recited it for a year and saw nothing [and no improvement came about]; so I wrote [a letter] to him and informed him of the badness of my condition and that I had recited إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَی قَوْمِهِ for a year as he had ordered me and I had seen nothing." He wrote to me: "The year has been completed for you; so move on from [reciting] it to the recitation of إِنَّا أَنْزَلْنَاه (Surah al-Qadr)."

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him and his family): Whoever recites this surah and seeks a need, Allah the Blessed and Exalted makes the fulfilment of that need easy. Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him) says: "Whoever makes the recitation of this surah his practice by night or day and habituates himself to it will not depart from this world until he sees his place in paradise. If this surah is recited at the time of asking for a need, by Allah's leave that need is fulfilled."