Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss First Fascicle

We should try not to miss Tahajjud namâz (namâz performed
after midnight) unless there is a darûrat. [The namâz which is
performed after the two-thirds of the night has elapsed is called the
tahajjud; it is performed before dawn. Tahajjud means to forgo
one’s sleep. Our Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ would
perform tahajjud even during war. He who has omitted prayers of
namâz should perform his omitted prayers during the time of
tahajjud. Thus he will both pay his debt of omitted prayers and
earn the thawâb of tahajjud. How to perform the namâz called
tahajjud and other nâfila (supererogatory) prayers of namâz is
written in our book entitled Ethics of Islam. If it is difficult to wake
up at midnight, order some of your servants to wake you up then.
After getting up for a few nights, you will make it a habit and will
begin to wake up. He who wants to wake up for tahajjud and
morning prayer should go to bed immediately after performing the
night prayer, instead or being late for sleep by busying oneself with
useless things. At the time of tahajjud, it is necessary to make
tawba, to say istighfâr, to trust oneself to Allâhu ta’âlâ, to entreat
Him, to think of one’s sins, to remember one’s faults, defects, to
fear with the thought of the torment in the next world; and to
tremble in anticipation of the bitter torments of Hell. One should
beg for afw and maghfirat (forgiveness) very much. At that time
and also at any time, it is necessary to say istighfâr (Astaghfirullahal-’azîm-allazî
lâ îlâha illâ huwa-l-hayy-al-qayyûma wa atûbu
ilayh) a hundred times and to think of its meaning. [‘’Azîm’ means
one whose person and attributes are perfect. ‘Kabîr’ means one
whose person is perfect. ‘Jalîl’ means one whose attributes are
perfect.] One should say it a hundred times after late afternoon
prayer [after saying one’s tasbîhs and invoking one’s blessings.] It
may be said when one has an ’abdast (ablution) as well as without
an ’abdast. It is stated in a hadîth: “Good news to those on whose
pages there are many istighfârs on the Day of Last Judgment!”
[Muhammad Ma’thûm-i Fârûqî, in the eightieth letter of the
second volume, states: “It has become a proven fact after a number
of events experienced by various people that saying istighfârs is
effective in getting rid of calamities and hardships. It has been
reported in a hadîth-i sherîf that saying istighfâr causes every sort
of adversity to be removed and one’s sustenance to increase. After
each fard namâz it must be said three times, and this number,
(three,) must be complemented to seventy by saying its
abbreviated form, ‘Astaghfirallah.’ (sixty-seven times).” Please see
the ‘Second Volume, Eightieth Letter’ in ‘Part Seven’ of the book
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