The Fifteen Whispered Prayers The Fifteen Whispered Prayers The Fifteen Whispered Prayers (Arabic: مُناجاتُ خَمْسَ عَشَرَةَ), also known as The Fifteen Munajat, is a collection of fifteen prayers attributed to Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (Imam Sajjad), the fourth Imam of Shia Muslims. Imam Sajjad is also the author of "Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya", another collection of prayers, and some researchers regard the whispered prayers as a supplementary part of the latter collection. Every person experiences different feelings towards God throughout life. The Fifteen Whispered Prayers enable a person to recite the prayer which is in most accordance with his present mood and feeling. The prayers
Al-Azhar Mosque the fall of the Fatimid Caliphate, and Al-Azhar became a Sunni institution shortly thereafter. Saladin, who overthrew the Fatimids in 1171, was hostile to the Shi’ite principles of learning propounded at al-Azhar during the Fatimid Caliphate, and under his Ayyubid dynasty the mosque suffered from neglect. Congregational prayers were banned by Sadr al-Din ibn Dirbass, appointed "qadi" by Saladin. The reason for this edict may have been Shāfi‘ī teachings that proscribe congregational prayers in a community to only one mosque, or mistrust of the former Shi'a institution by the new Sunni ruler. By this time, the much larger al-Hakim Mosque