Transmitted from the Prophet Muhammad, Al-Jawshan-al-Kabir is one of the prayers most frequently recited by Muslims; its contents have deep meanings, its expressions are elegant, and various hadiths relate the rewards that one may receive in this world as in the hereafter for reciting it. The Arabic text of this beautiful prayer of Islamic tradition has been written in the most elegant art of calligraphy and pages are ornamented with colorful illuminations.