When, he asked Prophet ﷺ about a man who used to recite Surah Al-Ikhlaas at the end of his recitation in every single prayer, and when he asked his companions to ask the man, Why he recites “Qul Hu Allahu Ahad” so frequently. The man responded and said because it was “Sifatur-Rehman” because it’s a description of the most merciful. I love to read the description of the most merciful. So the Prophet ﷺ said, Go back and tell that man that Allah loves him because of his love for that surah. A person who is in distress may find something extremely beautiful about Surah Yusuf. Ar-Rahman and Surah Ya-Sin are dear to so many people. Then we start to find the Prophet ﷺ talking about how particular Surahs benefit you in the station, so he said to recite the Quran for all the days of resurrection; it will come as an intercessor for its reciters.
Then he said to recite the two brightly (illustrated chapters) like Surah Al-Baqarah, Surah Mulk and Al-‘Imran. He said, For on the day of resurrection, they will come as if they were two clouds, two shades or two flocks of birds. “TUHAJIANI ‘AN AS-HABIHIMA,” and they will be arguing on behalf of their companions. Imagine a person walking on the day of judgment and Al-Baqarah and Al-‘Iman are like two canopies, two flocks of birds, and two clouds that are following you, and everyone is admiring and wishing they had done so as well, wishing they had committed those Surahs to their memory and acted upon them as well. That’s why the Prophet ﷺ said,
“Recite Surah Al-Baqarah, for doing so produces blessing in this life, and abandoning it produces regret in the next life.”
The Prophet ﷺ also mentioned some of these other short portions that we recite on a daily basis. In another authentic hadith, the Prophet ﷺ said,
“Whoever recites Ayatul Kursi (ALLAHU LAA ILLAHA ILLA HU) after every one of the prescribed prayers, the Prophet ﷺ said, “Nothing is standing between him and his entrance into paradise, except for death.”
