What to recite during the tarwiha?

Question

Question: In some reliable and well-known leaflets, under the heading “The sunna supplications (du‘a) of the tarwiha in tarawih, selected from sound hadiths,” the following supplication is written: [ar]سبحان الملك القدوس، سبحان ذي الملك والملكوت، سبحان ذي العزة والعظمة والقدرة والكبرياء والجبروت، سبحان الملك الحي الذي لا ينام ولا يموت، سبوح قدوس ربنا ورب الملائكة والروح، لا إله إلا أنت، أستغفرك وأسألك الجنة وأعوذ بك من النار، اللهم أجرني من النار، يا مجير يا مجير يا مجير[/ar] “Glory be to the Sovereign, the Most…

Answer

After every four rak‘as of tarawih there is a choice: to sit silently, or to recite [the Qur’an], or to recite salawat, or to recite tasbih and istighfar; for it was the practice of the people of Makka al-Mukarrama to perform one tawaf and pray two rak‘as of nafl after every four rak‘as, and the people of Madina Tayyiba used to pray four rak‘as of nafl individually after every…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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