During this night there are few important deeds and one should make his best endeavors for their performance as follows:
To offer ten rak'ats of prayer for acceptance of this month's deeds and worships.
In the book of Iqbal, it has been narrated from the Holy Prophet [peace be upon him and his holy progeny], that he has sworn that whoever offered ten rak'ats of prayer during this night in the following manner:
"The prayer should be offered with salutations after each two (rak'ats); in each rak'at after Surah al-Hamd, Surah al-Ikhlas should be recited ten times; and in each genuflection (rukoo) and prostration (sujood), recite the four-praises (tasbihatul-arba) - 10 times:
(subhan Allahi wal hamdu lillahi wala ilahi illAllahu wAllahu akbar)
"Glory to Allah, all praises belong to Allah, and there is no god but Allah, and Allah is Great."
And after offering the salutations of the last rak'at should recite the following phrase one thousand times:
(Astaghfirullah)
"I ask Allah to forgive me."
Then in the end he should offer prostration by reciting the following:
"O' Living, O' Self-existent, O' the Majestic and Magnanimous, O' the Merciful in this world as well as in the next-world, O' the Lord of the first and the last, forgive our sins, and accept our prayer, fasting, and deeds.
He wouldn't even have raised his head from the prostration, but Allah would bestow upon him his forgiveness, would accept from him his Ramadan’s deeds and worships, and would pardon his sins no matter how heavy they might be, because of him would accept the worshipping of his neighbors, and in the end the Holy Prophet [peace be upon him and his holy progeny] said: 'this is the special gift for the men and the women of my community (ummah), and before me Allah has not given such gift to anybody."
It would be desirable that all of us should do especially, those who care about others reformation and refinement; because of their being benefited from Allah's blessing of general compassion, they love to guide others towards reformation, righteousness, truth and perfection; for this purpose have selected the preaching as their profession, therefore, they must be ahead of others in undertaking this deed, because, the benefits which are gained by the people due to the performance of this deed are far greater than the benefits received by them in a preaching assembly.
Because, undoubtedly, whatever is said in a preaching assembly does not influence all the people present over there what to say about its influence upon those who were absent and did not listen to the preaching sermon.
But the reward of the above-mentioned deed reaches to all the neighbors living in that area, even if their number happens to be in thousands or more.
In addition to that the benefit which is gained by someone through a preacher is far insignificant as compared to the benefit of the above-mentioned deed, i.e., forgiveness for all their sins and acceptance of all their deeds and worships performed during the Holy Month of Ramadan.
source : sibtayn
