Sahife Sajjadiyyeh
When he(imam sajad) (A. S) began to supplicate, he would begin with…
When he (A. S) began to supplicate, he would begin with Praise And Laudation of Allah (Mighty and Majestic is He). he would say: Praise belongs to Allah, the First, without a first before Him, the Last, without a last behind Him. Beholders' eyes fell short of seeing Him, describers' imaginations are not able to depict Him. He originated the creatures through His power with an origination, He devised them in accordance with His will with a devising. Then He made them walk on the path of His desire, He sent them out on the way of His love. They cannot keep back from that to which He has sent them forward, nor can they go forward to that from which He has kept them back. He assigned from His provision to each of their spirits a nourishment known and apportioned. No decreaser decreases those whom He increases, no increaser increases those of them whom He decreases. Then for each spirit He strikes a fixed term in life, for each He sets up a determined end; he walks toward it through the days of his span, he overtakes it through the years of his time. Then, when he takes his final step and embraces the reckoning of his span, O Allah seizes him to the abundant reward or the feared punishment to which He has called him, (That He may repay those who do evil for what they have done and repay those who do good with goodness) , 1 as justice from Him (holy are His names, and manifest His boons. ) (He shall not be questioned as to what He does, but they shall be questioned). 2 Praise belongs to Allah, for, had He withheld from His servants the knowledge to praise Him for the uninterrupted kindnesses with which He has tried them3 and the manifest favors which He has lavished upon them, they would have moved about in His kindnesses without praising Him, and spread themselves out in His provision without thanking Him. Had such been the case, they would have left the bounds of humanity for that of beastliness and become as He has described in the firm text of His Book: (They are but as the cattle - nay, but they are further astray from the wa! ). 4 O Praise belongs to Allah, for the true knowledge of Himself He has given to us, the thanksgiving He has inspired us to offer Him, the doors to knowing His Lordship He has opened for us, the sincerity towards Him in professing His Unity to which He has led us, and the deviation and doubt in His Command from which He has turned us aside; a praise through which we may be given long life among those of His creatures who praise Him, and overtake those who have gone ahead toward His good pleasure and pardon; a praise through which He will illuminate for us the shadows of the interworld,5 ease for us the path of the Resurrection, and raise up our stations at the standing places of the Witnesses6 (on the day when every soul will be repaid for that it has earned - they shall not be wronged; 7 (the day a master shall avail nothing a client, and they shall not be helped) ;8 a praise which will rise up from us to the highest of the ' Illeeyoon9 (in a book inscribed, witnessed by those brought nigh) , 10 a praise whereby our eyes may be at rest when sight is dazzled, 11 our faces whitened when skins are blackened, 12 a praise through which we may be released from Allah's painful Fire and enter Allah's generous neighborhood, a praise by which we may jostle the angels brought nigh and join the prophets, the envoys, in a House of Permanence that does not remove, the Place of His Generosity that does not change. Praise belongs to Allah, who chose for us the good qualities of creation, granted us the agreeable things of provision, and appointed for us excellence through domination over all creation; every one of His creatures submits to us through His power, and comes to obey us through His might. 13 Praise belongs to Allah, who locked for us the gate of need except toward Him. So how can we praise Him? When can we thank Him? Indeed, when? Praise belongs to Allah, who placed within us the organs of expansion, assigned for us the agents of contraction, gave us to enjoy the spirits of life, fixed within us the limbs of works, nourished us with the agreeable things of provision, freed us from need through His bounty, and gave us possessions through His kindness. Then He commanded us that He might test our obedience and prohibited us that He might try our thanksgiving. So we turned against the path of His commandments and mounted the backs of His warnings. Yet He hurried us not to His punishment, nor hastened us on to His vengeance. No, He went slowly with us through His mercy, in generosity, and awaited our return through His clemency, in mildness. Praise belongs to Allah, who showed us the way to repentance, which we would not have won save through His bounty. Had we nothing to count as His bounty but this, His trial of us would have been good, His beneficence toward us great, His bounty upon us immense. For such was not His wont in repentance with those who went before us. 14 He has lifted up from us What we have not the strength to bear, 15 charged us only to our capacity, 16 imposed upon us nothing but ease, and left none of us with an argument or excuse. So the perisher among us is he who perishes in spite of Him and the felicitous among us he who beseeches Him. And praise belongs to Allah with all the praises of His angels closest to Him, His creatures most noble in His eyes, and His praisers most pleasing to Him; a praise that may surpass other praises as our Lord surpasses all His creatures. Then to Him belongs praise, in place of His every favor upon us, and upon all His servants, past and still remaining, to the number of all things His knowledge encompasses, and in place of each of His favors, their number doubling and redoubling always and forever, to the Day of Resurrection; a praise whose bound has no utmost end, whose number has no reckoning, whose limit cannot be reached, whose period cannot be cut off; a praise which will become a link to His obedience and pardon, a tie to His good pleasure, a means to His forgiveness, a path to His Garden, a protector against His vengeance, a security against His wrath, an aid to obeying Him, a barrier against disobeying Him, a help in fulfilling His right and His duties; a praise that will make us felicitous among His felicitous friends, and bring us into the ranks of those martyred by the swords of His enemies. He is a Friend, Praiseworth!
After this praise of Allah, he (A. S) would supplicate by…
After this praise of Allah, he (A. S) would supplicate by Calling Down Blessings Upon Allah's Messenger (Allah bless him and his Household) Praise belongs to Allah, who was kind to us through Muhammad (Allah bless him and his Household) to the exclusion of past communities and bygone generations, displaying thereby His power, which nothing can render incapable, though it be great, and nothing can escape, though it be subtle. He sealed through us all He created, appointed us witnesses over those who deny, and increased us by His kindness over those who are few. O Allah bless Muhammad, entrusted by Thee with Thy revelation, distinguished by Thee among Thy creatures, devoted to Thee among Thy servants, the Imam of mercy, the leader of good, the key to blessing, who wearied his soul for Thy affairs, exposed his body to detested things for Thy sake, showed open enmity toward his next of kin by summoning to Thee, fought against his family for Thy good pleasure, cut the ties of the womb in giving life to Thy religion, sent far those close because of their denial, brought near those far because of their response to Thee, showed friendship to the most distant for Thy sake, displayed enmity toward the nearest for Thy sake, made his soul persevere in delivering Thy message, tired it in summoning to Thy creed, busied it in counseling those worthy of Thy summons migrated to the land of exile and the place of remoteness from the home of his saddlebags, the walkway of his feet, the ground of his birth, and the intimate abode of his soul, desiring to exalt Thy religion and seeking help against those who disbelieved in Thee, until what he attempted against Thy enemies went well with him and what he arranged for Thy friends was accomplished. He rose up against them seeking victory through Thine aid, becoming strong in spite of his weakness with Thy help. He fought against them in the center of their cities and attacked them in the midst of their dwellings, until Thy command prevailed, and Thy word rose up, though the idolaters were averse. 17 O Allah, so raise him, because of his labors for Thy sake, to the highest degree of Thy Garden, 18 that none may equal him in station, none may match him in level, and no angel brought nigh or prophet sent out may parallel him in Thy sight. And inform him concerning his Household the pure and his community the faithful of an excellent intercession, greater than what Thou hast promised hi! 19 O Keeper of promise! O Faithful to Thy wor! O He who changes evil deeds into manifold good deed! 20 Thou art of bounty aboundin!
His Supplication (A. S) in Calling down Blessings upon…
His Supplication (A. S) in Calling down Blessings upon the Bearers of the Throne and Every Angel Brought Nigh O Allah, as for the Bearers of Thy Throne, 21 who never flag in glorifying Thee, never become weary of calling Thee holy, never tire of worshiping Thee, never prefer curtailment over diligence in Thy command, and are never heedless of passionate love for Thee; And Seraphiel, the Owner of the Trumpet, fixed in his gaze, awaiting Thy permission and the descent of the Command, that he may arouse through the Blast the hostages thrown down in the graves; And Michael, possessor of standing with Thee and a raised up place in Thy obedience; And Gabriel, entrusted with Thy revelation, obeyed by the inhabitants of Thy heavens, distinguished in Thy Presence, 22 brought nigh to Thee; and the spirit who is over the angels of the veils; 23 and the spirit who is of Thy command24 - bless them and the angels below them: the residents in Thy heavens, those entrusted with Thy messages, those who become not wearied by perseverance, or exhausted and flagged by toil, whom passions distract not from glorifying Thee, and whose magnification of Thee is never cut off by the inattention of heedless moments; their eyes lowered, they do not attempt to look at Thee; their chins bowed, they have long desired what is with Thee; unrestrained in mentioning Thy boons, they remain humble before Thy mightiness and the majesty of Thy magnificence; and those who say when they look upon GEHENNAM roaring over the people who disobeyed Thee: 'Glory be to The! , we have not worshiped Thee with the worship Thou deserves! ' Bless them, and Thy angels who are the Reposeful, those of proximity to Thee, those who carry the unseen to Thy messengers, those entrusted with Thy revelation, the tribes of angels whom Thou hast singled out for Thyself, freed from need for food and drink by their calling Thee holy, and made to dwell inside Thy heavens' layers, those who will stand upon the heavens' borders25 when the Command descends to complete Thy promise, the keepers of the rain, the drivers of the clouds, him at whose driving's sound is heard the rolling of thunder, and when the reverberating clouds swim before his driving, bolts of lightning flash; the escorts of snow and hail, the descenders with the drops of rain when they fall, the watchers over the treasuries of the winds, those charged with the mountains lest they disappear, those whom Thou hast taught the weights of the waters and the measures contained by torrents and masses of rain; the angels who are Thy messengers to the people of the earth with the disliked affliction that comes down and the beloved ease; the devoted, noble scribes, 26 the watchers, noble writers, 27 the angel of death and his helpers, Munkar And Nakeer, 28 Ruman, the tester in the graves, 29 the circlers of the Inhabited House, 30 MAALIK31 and the guardians, RIZ''WAAN32 and the gatekeepers of the gardens, those (who disobey not Allah in what He commands them and do what they are commanded) ; 33 those who say, (Peace be upon you, for that you were patient - and fair is the Ultimate Abode) ; 34 the ZABANEEYA, who, when it is said to them: (take him, and jetter him, then roast him in hell) , 35 hasten to accomplish it, nor do they give him any respite; 36 him whom we have failed to mention, not knowing his place with Thee, nor with which command Thou hast charged him; and the residents in the air, the earth, and the water, and those of them charged over the creatures; bless them on the day when every soul will come, with it a driver and a witness, 37 and bless them with a blessing that will add honor to their honor and purity to their purity. O Allah, and when Thou blessest Thy angels and Thy messengers and Thou extendest our blessings to them, bless us through the good words about them which Thou hast opened up for u! Thou art Munificent, Generous.
His Supplication (A. S) in Calling down Blessings upon…
His Supplication (A. S) in Calling down Blessings upon the Followers of, and Attesters to the Messengers O Allah, as for the followers of the messengers and those of the people of the earth who attested to them unseen (while the obstinate resisted them through crying lies (- they yearned for the emissaries through the realities of faith, in every era and time in which Thou didst send a messenger and set up for the people a director from the period of Adam down to Muhammad (Allah bless him and his Household (from among the Imams of guidance and the leaders of the God-fearing) upon them all be peace (- remember them with forgiveness and good pleasur! O Allah, and as for the Companions of Muhammad specifically, those who did well in companionship, who stood the good test in helping him, responded to him when he made them hear his messages' argument, separated from mates and children in manifesting his word, fought against fathers and sons in strengthening his prophecy, and through him gained victory; those who were wrapped in affection for him, hoping for a commerce that comes not to naught38 in love for him; those who were left by their clans when they clung to his handhold and denied by their kinsfolk when they rested in the shadow of his kinship; forget not, O Allah, what they abandoned for Thee and in Thee, and make them pleased with Thy good pleasure for the sake of the creatures they drove to Thee while they were with Thy Messenger, summoners to Thee for Thee. Show gratitude to them for leaving the abodes of their people for Thy sake and going out from a plentiful livelihood to a narrow one, and [show gratitude to] those of them who became objects of wrongdoing and whom Thou multiplied in exalting Thy religion. O Allah, and give to those who have done well in following the Companions, who say: ) Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers who went before us in faith) , 39 Thy best reward; those who went straight to the Companions' road, sought out their course, and proceeded in their manner. No doubt concerning their sure insight diverted them and no uncertainty shook them from following in their tracks and being led by the guidance of their light. As their assistants and supporters, they professed their religion, gained guidance through their guidance, came to agreement with them, and never accused them in what they passed on to them. O Allah, and bless the Followers, from this day of ours to the Day of Doom, their wives, their offspring, and those among them who obey Thee, with a blessing through which Thou wilt preserve them from disobeying Thee, make room for them in the plots of Thy Garden, defend them from the trickery of Satan, help them in the piety in which they seek help from Thee, protect them from sudden events that come by night and - day except the events which come with good - and incite them to tie firmly the knot of good hope in Thee, what is with Thee, and refrain from ill thoughts [toward Thee] because of what the hands of Thy servants' hold. Thus Thou mayest restore them to beseeching Thee and fearing Thee, induce them to renounce the plenty of the immediate, make them love to work for the sake of the deferred and prepare for what comes after death, make easy for them every distress that comes to them on the day when souls take leave from bodies, release them from that which brings about the perils of temptation and being thrown down in the Fire and staying forever within it, and take them to security, the resting place of the God-fearing.
His Supplication (A. S) For Himself And The People Under His Guardianship
O He, the wonders of whose mightiness will never en! Bless Muhammad and his Household and prevent us from deviation concerning Thy mightines! He, the term of whose kingdom will never ceas! Bless Muhammad and his Household and release our necks from Thy vengeanc! O He, the treasuries of whose mercy will never be exhauste! Bless Muhammad and his Household and appoint for us a portion of Thy merc! O He, whom eyes fall short of seein! Bless Muhammad and his Household and bring us close to Thy nearnes! O He, before whose greatness all great things are smal! Bless Muhammad and his Household and give us honor with The! O He, to whom all hidden tidings are manifes! Bless Muhammad and his Household and expose us not before The! O Allah, remove our need for the gifts of the givers through Thy gift, spare us the loneliness of those who break off through Thy joining, that we may beseech no one along with Thy free giving, that we may feel lonely at no one's absence along with Thy bount! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, scheme for us, not against us, devise to our benefit, not to our loss, 40 give the turn to prevail to us, not to other! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, protect us from Thyself, safeguard us through Thyself, guide us to Thyself, and take us not far from Thysel! 41 He whom Thou protectest stays safe, he whom Thou guidest knows, and he whom Thou bringest near Thyself takes the spoils. O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and SPARE us the cutting edge of time's turning changes, the evil of Satan's snares, and the bitterness of the sovereign's aggressio! O Allah, the spared are spared only through the bounty of Thy strength, so bless Muhammad and his Household and spare u! The givers give only through the bounty of Thy wealth, so bless Muhammad and his Household and give to u! The guided are guided only by the light of Thy face, so bless Muhammad and his Household and guide u! O Allah, he whom Thou befriendest will not be injured by the abandonment of the abandoners, he to whom Thou givest will not be diminished by the withholding of the withholders, he whom Thou guidest will not be misled by the misguidance of the misguiders. So bless Muhammad and his Household, defend us from Thy servants through Thy might, free us from need for other than Thee through Thy support, and make us travel the path of the Truth through Thy right guidanc! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and put the soundness of our hearts into the remembrance of Thy mightiness, the idleness of our bodies into giving thanks for Thy favor, and the flow of our tongues into the description of Thy kindnes! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, and make us one of Thy summoners who summon to Thee, Thy guiders who direct to Thee, and Thy special friends whom Thou hast singled ou! O Most Merciful of the mercifu!
His Supplication (A. S) in Morning and Evening
Praise belongs to Allah, who created night and day through His strength, set them apart through His power, and appointed for each a determined limit and a drawn-out period. He makes each of the two enter into its companion, and makes its companion enter into it, as an ordainment from Him for His servants in that through which He feeds them and with which He makes them grow. He created for them the night, that they might rest in it42 from tiring movements and wearisome exertions and He made it a garment for them that they might be clothed in its ease and its sleep, that it might be for them refreshment and strength, that they might reach therein pleasure and passion, He created for them the daytime, giving sight, that they might seek within it of His bounty, 43 find the means to His provision, and roam freely in His earth, searching for that through which to attain the immediate in their life in this world and to achieve the deferred in their life to come. Through all of this He sets right their situation, tries their records, 44 and watches their state in the times for obeying Him, the waystations of His obligations, and the places of His ordinances, (That He may repay those who do evil with what they have done and repay those who do good with goodness). 45 O Allah, to Thee belongs praise for the sky Thou hast split into dawn for us, 46 giving us to enjoy thereby the brightness of daytime, showing us sought-after nourishments, and protecting us from the striking of blights. In the morning we and all things, every one, rise for Thee, the heaven and the earth and what Thou hast scattered in each, the still and the moving, the resident and the journeying, what towers up in the air and what hides under the ground. O We rise in the morning in Thy grasp: Thy kingdom and authority contain us and Thy will embraces us. We move about by Thy command and turn this way and that through Thy governing. We own nothing of the affair except what Thou hast decreed and nothing of the good except what Thou hast given. This is a fresh, new day, over us a ready witness. If we do good, it will take leave from us with praise, and if we do evil, it will part from us in blame. O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, provide us with the day's good companionship and preserve us against parting from it badly by doing a misdeed or committing a sin, whether small or a grea! Make our good deeds within it plentiful empty us therein of evil deeds, and fill what lies between its two sides for us with praise and thanksgiving, wages and stores, bounty and beneficenc! O Allah, ease our burden on the Noble Writers, 47 fill our pages for us with our good deeds, and degrade us not before them with our evil work! O Allah, appoint for us in each of the day's hours a share from Thy servants, a portion of giving thanks to Thee, and a truthful witness among Thy angel! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and safeguard us from before us and behind us, from our right hands and our left hands, and from all our directions, 48 a safeguarding that will preserve from disobeying Thee, guide to obeying Thee, and be employed for Thy lov! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and give us success in this day of ours, this night of ours, and in all our days, to employ the good, stay away from the evil, give thanks for favors, follow the SUNNA's norms, avoid innovations, enjoin good behavior, forbid the disapproved, defend Islam, diminish falsehood and abase it, help the truth and exalt it, guide the misguided, assist the weak, and reach out to the trouble! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and make this (day) the most fortunate day we have known, the most excellent companion we have accompanied, and the best time in which we have lingere! PLACE us among the most satisfied of all Thy creatures whom night and day have passed by, the most thankful of them for the favors Thou hast done, the firmest of them in the laws Thou hast set down in the Shareea'h, and the most unyielding of them toward the prohibited acts against which Thou hast cautione! O Allah, I call Thee to witness - and Thou art sufficient witness - and I call Thy heaven and Thy earth to witness and Thy angels and Thy other creatures who inhabit them in this my day, this my hour, this my night, and this my resting place, that I bear witness that Thou art Allah, other than whom there is no god, Upholding justice, Equitable in judgment, Clement to the servants, 49 Master of the kingdom, 50 Compassionate to the creatures, and that Muhammad is Thy servant and Thy messenger, Thy chosen from among Thy creatures. Thou didst charge him with Thy message and he delivered it; Thou didst command him to counsel his community and he counseled it. O Allah, so bless Muhammad and his Household more than Thou hast blessed any of Thy creature! Give him for our sake the best Thou hast given any of Thy servants, and repay him on our behalf better and more generously than Thou hast repaid any of Thy prophets on behalf of his communit! Thou art All-kind with immensity, the Forgiver of the great, and Thou art more merciful than every possessor of merc! So bless Muhammad and his Household, the good, the pure, the chosen, the most distinguishe!
His Supplication (A. S) when Faced with a Worrisome Task…
His Supplication (A. S) when Faced with a Worrisome Task, or when Misfortune Descended, and at the Time of Distress O He, through whom the knots of detested things are untie! O He through whom the cutting edge of hardships is blunte! O He, from whom is begged the outlet to the freshness of relie! Intractable affairs yield to Thy power, means are made ready by Thy gentleness, the decree goes into effect through Thy power, and all things proceed according to Thy desire. By Thy desire they follow Thy command without Thy word and by Thy will they obey Thy bans without Thy prohibition. Thou art the supplicated in worries and the place of flight in misfortunes; none of them is repelled unless Thou repellest, none is removed unless Thou removest. Upon me has come down, My Lord, something whose weight burdens me and upon me has fallen something whose carrying oppresses me. Through Thy power Thou hast brought it down upon me and through Thy authority Thou hast turned it toward me. None can send away what Thou hast brought, none can deflect what Thou hast turned, none can open what Thou hast closed, none can close what Thou hast opened, none can make easy what Thou hast made difficult, none can help him whom Thou hast abandoned. So bless Muhammad and his Household, open for me, my Lord, the door of relief through Thy graciousness, break from me the authority of worry by Thy strength, confer the beauty of Thy gaze upon my complaint, let me taste the sweetness of benefaction in what I ask, give me from Thyself mercy and wholesome relief, and appoint for me from Thyself a quick way ou! Distract me not through worry from observing Thy obligations and acting in accordance with Thy prescriptions. My capacity has been straitened, my Lord, by what has come down on me, and I am filled with worry by carrying what has happened to me, while Thou hast power to remove what has afflicted me and to repel that into which I have fallen. So do that for me though I merit it not from Thee, O Possessor of the Mighty Thron!
His Supplication (A. S) in Seeking Refuge from Hateful Things…
His Supplication (A. S) in Seeking Refuge from Hateful, Bad Moral Qualities, and Blameworthy Acts O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from the agitation of craving, the violence of wrath, the domination of envy, the frailty of patience, the lack of contentment, surliness of character, urgency of passion, the disposition to vehemence, following caprice, 51 opposing guidance, the sleep of heedlessness, undertaking the toilsome, preferring falsehood over truth, persisting in sin, making little of disobedience, making much of obedience, vying with the wealthy, disparaging the poor, guarding badly over those in our hands, failing to thank those who have done good to us, aiding a wrongdoer, abandoning someone troubled, wanting what is not rightfully ours, and speaking about knowledge without knowing. We seek refuge in Thee from harboring dishonesty toward anyone, being pleased with our works, and stretching out our expectations. We seek refuge in Thee from ill-mindedness, looking down on the small, SATAN's gaining mastery over us, time's afflicting us, and the sovereign's oppressing us. We seek refuge in Thee from acting with prodigality and not having sufficiency. We seek refuge in Thee from the gloating of enemies, indigent need for equals, living in hardship, and dying without readiness. WE SEEK REFUGE IN THEE FROM the most dreadful remorse, the greatest affliction, the most wretched wretchedness, the evil end to the journey, the deprivation of reward, and the advent of punishment. O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and through Thy mercy, give to me refuge from all of that, and to all the faithful, both men and wome! O Most Merciful of the mercifu!
His Supplication (A. S) in Yearning to Ask Forgiveness from Allah (Mighty and Majestic is He (O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household,
make us go to the repentance that Thou lovest and make us leave the persistence that Thou hates! O Allah, when we halt before two decreases, in religion or in this world, let the decrease fall upon that which passes quickly and relent in that which lasts the longe! When we set out after two concerns, one of which makes Thee pleased with us and the other of which displeases Thee, incline us toward that which makes Thee pleased and weaken our strength in that which displeases The! Leave not our souls alone to choose in that, for they choose falsehood except inasmuch as Thou givest success, and they command to evil except inasmuch as Thou hast merc! 52 O Allah, Thou created us from frailty, 53 built us up from feebleness, and began us from a mean water; 54 we have no force except through Thy strength and no strength except through Thy help. So confirm us by giving us success, point us the right way by Thy pointing, blind the eyes of our hearts toward everything opposed to Thy love, and set not in any of our limbs passage to disobeying The! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and ASSIGN the whisperings of our hearts, the movements of our members, the glances of our eyes, and the idioms of our tongues, to that which makes incumbent Thy reward, lest a good deed slip by us, through which we might deserve Thy repayment, or an evil deed remain with us, by which we might merit Thy punishmen!
His Supplication (A. S) in in Seeking Asylum with Allah (exalted is He (O Allah,
if Thou willest, Thou wilt pardon us through Thy bounty and if Thou willest, Thou wilt chastise us through Thy justice. So make our ways smooth to Thy pardon through Thy kindness and grant us sanctuary from Thy chastisement through Thy forbearance, for none of us has the endurance for Thy justice and none of us can reach deliverance without Thy pardo! O Richest of the ric! Here we are, Thy servants, before Thee. I am the neediest of the needy toward Thee, so redress our neediness through Thy plenty and cut us not off from our hopes through Thy withholding, lest Thou makest wretched him who seeks felicity through Thee and deprivest him who seeks help from Thy bount! Then to whom would we return after Thee? Where would we go from Thy gate? Glory be to The! WE ARE the distressed, the response to whom Thou hast made incumbent, the people from whom Thou hast promised to remove the evil. 55 That thing most resembling Thy will and that affair most worthy for Thee in Thy mightiness is showing mercy to him who asks Thee for mercy and helping him who seeks help from Thee. So show mercy upon our pleading with Thee and free us from need when we throw ourselves before The! O Allah, SATAN will gloat over us if we follow him in disobeying Thee, so bless Muhammad and his Household and let him not gloat over us after we have renounced him for Thee and beseeched Thee against hi!
His Supplication (A. S) for Good Outcomes
O He remembering whom brings honor to those who remembe! O He thanking whom brings triumph to those who give thank! O He obeying whom brings deliverance to those who obe! Bless Muhammad and his Household, and divert our hearts through remembering Thee from every act of remembrance, our tongues through thanking Thee from every act of thanksgiving, our limbs through obeying Thee from every act of obedienc! If Thou hast ordained for us idleness from these occupations, make it an idleness of safety, within which no ill consequence visits us or weariness overtakes u! Then the writers of evil deeds may depart from us with a page empty of the mention of our evil deeds, and the writers of good deeds may turn away from us happy with the good deeds of ours which they have written. And when the days of our life have passed by, the terms of our lifetimes have elapsed, and Thy call, which must come and be answered, summons us forth, then bless Muhammad and his Household and make the outcome of what the writers of our works count against us an accepted repentance, which afterwards gave us no rest in a sin that we committed, or an act of disobedience that we performe! Remove not from us any covering with which Thou hast covered over the heads of the witnesses on the day when the records of Thy servants are trie! Verily Thou art compassionate to him who supplicates Thee, the responder to him who calls upon The!
His Supplication (A. S) in Confession and in Seeking Repentance toward Allah (exalted is He (O Allah,
three traits have prevented me from asking Thee and one trait has urged me on: I am prevented by a command Thou hast commanded in which I have been slow, a prohibition Thou hast prohibited toward which I have hurried, and a favor through which Thou hast favored for which I have not given sufficient thanks. I am urged to ask Thee by Thy gratuitous bounty upon him who turns his face toward Thee and comes to Thee with a good opinion, since all Thy beneficence is gratuitous bounty and every one of Thy favors a new beginnin! So here I am, my God, standing at the gate of Thy might, the standing of the lowly, the surrendered, asking Thee in my shame, the asking of the destitute, the pitiful, admitting to Thee that at the time of Thy beneficence I surrendered not save through abstaining from disobedience toward Thee and in none of my states was I ever without Thy Kindness. Will it profit me, my God, to admit to Thee the evil of what I have earned? Will it save me from Thee to confess the ugliness of what I have done? Or wilt Thou impose upon me in this my station Thy displeasure? Will Thy hate hold fast to me in the time of my supplication? Glory be to The! I do not despair of Thee, for Thou hast opened the door of repentance toward Thyself. Rather, I say, the words of a lowly servant, having wronged himself and made light of his Lord's inviolability, and whose sins are dreadful, great, whose days have parted, fled, until, when he sees the term of his works expired and the limit of his lifetime reached and knows with certainty that he has no escape from Thee, no place to flee from Thee, he turns his face toward Thee in repeated turning, makes his repentance toward Thee sincere, stands before Thee with a pure and purified heart, then supplicates Thee with a feeble, quiet voice. He is bowed before Thee, bent, his head lowered, thrown down, his legs shaking in fear, his tears flooding his cheeks. He supplicates Thee: O Most Merciful of the mercifu! O Most Merciful of those toward whom seekers of mercy keep on turnin! O Tenderest of those around whom run seekers of forgivenes! O He whose pardon is greater than His vengeanc! O He whose good pleasure is more abundant than His ange! 56 O He who seeks His creatures' praise with excellent forbearanc! O He who has accustomed His servants to the acceptance of their repeated turnin! 57 O He who seeks to heal their corruption through repentanc! O He who is pleased with the easy of their act! O He who recompenses with the much their littl! O He who has made himself accountable to them to respond to supplicatio! 58 O He who pledged Himself by His gratuitous bounty to give them excellent repaymen! I am not the most disobedient of those who have disobeyed Thee and whom Thou hast forgiven, nor am I the most blameworthy to offer excuses which Thou hast accepted, nor am I the most wrongdoing of those who have repented to Thee, and to whom Thou hast returned I repent to Thee in this my station, the repentance of one remorseful over what preceded from him hastily, apprehensive of what has gathered around him, pure in shame for that into which he has fallen, knowing that pardoning great sins is nothing great for Thee. 59 overlooking enormous misdeeds is not difficult for Thee, putting up with indecent crimes does not-trouble Thee, and the most beloved of Thy servants to Thee is he who refrains from arrogance before Thee, pulls aside from persistence, and holds fast to praying forgivenes! I am clear before Thee of arrogance, I seek refuge in Thee from persistence, I pray forgiveness from Thee for shortcomings, I seek help from Thee in incapacit! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, dispense with what is incumbent upon me toward Thee, release me from what I merit from Thee, and grant me sanctuary from what the evildoers fea! For Thou art full of pardon, the hoped-for source of forgiveness, well known for Thy forbearance. My need has no object but Thee, my sin no forgiver other than Thee — Could that be possible? I have no fear for myself except from Thee; Thou art worthy of reverential fear, and worthy to forgiv! 60 Bless Muhammad and his Household, grant my need, answer my request favorably, forgive my sin, and give me security from fear for myself Thou art powerful over everything, 61 and that is easy for Thee. Amen, Lord of the world!
His Supplication (A. S) in Seeking Needs from Allah (exalted is He)
O Allah, O ultimate object of need! He through whom requests are attaine! O He whose favors are not bought by price! O He who does not muddy His gifts by the imposition of obligation! O He along with whom nothing is needed and without whom nothing can be don! O He toward whom desire is ever directed and never turned awa! O He whose treasuries cannot be exhausted by demand! O He whose wisdom cannot be altered by any mean! O He from whom the needs of the needy are never cut of! O He who is not distressed by the supplications of the supplicator! Thou hast lauded Thyself for having no need for Thy creatures, and it suits Thee to have no need for them, and Thou hast attributed to them poverty, and it suits them to be poor toward Thee. 62 So he who strives to remedy his lack through what is with Thee, and wishes to turn poverty away from himself through Thee, has sought his need in the most likely place and come to his request from the right quarter. But he who turns in his need toward one of Thy creatures or assigns the cause of its being granted to other than Thee, has exposed himself to deprivation and deserves to miss Thy beneficence. O Allah, I have a need of Thee: My exertion has fallen short of it and my stratagems have been cut back before reaching it. My soul induced me to present it to him who presents his needs to Thee and can do nothing without Thee in his requests, but this is one of the slips of the offenders, one of the stumbles of the sinner! Then through Thy reminding me, I was aroused from my heedlessness, through Thy giving success, I stood up from my slip, and through Thy pointing the way, I returned and withdrew from my stumble. I said: Glory to my Lor! How can the needy ask from the needy? How can the destitute beseech the destitute? So I went straight to Thee, my God, in beseeching, and I sent Thee my hope with trust in Thee. I came to know that the many I request from Thee are few before Thy wealth, the weighty I ask from Thee is vile before Thy plenty; Thy generosity is not constrained by anyone's asking, Thy hand is higher in bestowing gifts than every han! O Allah, so bless Muhammad and his Household, take me through Thy generosity to Thy gratuitous bounty and take me not through Thy justice to what I deserv! I am not the first beseecher to beseech Thee and Thou bestowed upon him while he deserved withholding, nor am I the first to ask from Thee and Thou wast bounteous toward him while he merited deprivation. O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, respond to my supplication, come near my call, have mercy on my pleading, listen to my voice, cut not short my hope for Thee, sever not my thread to Thee, turn not my face in this my need, and other needs, away from Thee, ATTEND FOR MY SAKE TO the fulfillment of my request, the granting of my need, and the attainment of what I have asked before I leave this place through Thy making easy for me the difficult and Thy excellent ordainment for me in all affair! Bless Muhammad and his Household with a permanent, ever-growing blessing, whose perpetuity has no cutting off and whose term knows no limit, and make that a help to me and a cause for the granting of my reques! Thou art Boundless, Generou! And of my needs, My Lord, are such and such. HERE YOU SHOULD STATE YOUR NEEDS, THEN PROSTRATE YOURSELF, AND SAY IN YOUR PROSTRATION Thy bounty has comforted me and Thy beneficence has shown the way, So I ask Thee by Thee and by Muhammad and his Household (Thy blessings be upon them) that Thou sendest me not back in disappointmen!
His Supplication (A. S) when Hostility was Shown to him…
His Supplication (A. S) when Hostility was Shown to him or when he Saw what he did not Like in Wrongdoers63 O He from whom is not concealed news of the aggrieve! O He who has no need to be told about them by the witnessing of the witnesse! O He whose help is near to the wronge! O He whose aid is far from the wrongdoer! Thou knowest, my God, how so-and-so, son of so-and-so, has harmed me in that which Thou hast forbidden, and how he has violated me in that which Thou hast prohibited, showing thereby ingratitude toward Thy favor upon him and delusion concerning what Thou hast denied him. O Allah, so bless Muhammad and his Household, keep my wrongdoing enemy from wronging me through Thy strength, blunt his blade toward me through Thy power, and assign to him a diversion in that which is close to him and the inability to reach his enem! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, let the wrongdoer not find it easy to wrong me, give me good help against him, preserve me from the like of his acts, and place me not in the like of his situatio! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, and assist me with an immediate assistance that will heal my rage toward him and redeem my fury toward hi! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, compensate me for his wronging me with Thy pardon and replace his evil action toward me with Thy mercy, for every detested thing less than Thy anger is slight and every disaster next to Thy rancor indifferen! O Allah, just as Thou hast made me detest being wronged, so also protect me from doing wron! O Allah, I complain to no one but Thee, and I seek help from no ruler other than Thee - how could I? So bless Muhammad and his Household, join my supplication to response, and unite my complaint with chang! O Allah, tempt me not with despair of Thy just treatment and tempt him not with feeling secure from Thy disapproval, lest he persist in wronging me and constrain me in my rights. 64 Let him soon recognize what Thou hast promised the wrongdoers65 and let me recognize Thy promised response to the distresse! 66 O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, give me success in accepting Thy decrees for me and against me, make me pleased with what Thou takest for me and from me, guide me to that which is most upright and employ me in that which is safes! O Allah, if the best for me with Thee lies in delaying the taking to task for my sake of him who has wronged me and in refraining from vengeance toward him until the Day of Decision and the Gathering of Disputants, then bless Muhammad and his Household, strengthen me from Thee with true intention and lasting patience, give me refuge from evil desire and the impatience of the greedy, and form in my heart the image of Thy reward which Thou hast stored away for me and the repayment and punishment which Thou has prepared for my disputan! Make this a cause of my contentment with what Thou hast decreed and my trust in what Thou hast chose! Amen, Lord of the world! Thou art of bounty abounding and Thou art powerful over everything.
His Supplication (A. S) when Sick or Visited by Distress or an Affliction
O Allah, to Thee belongs praise for the good health of my body which lets me move about, and to Thee belongs praise, for the ailments which Thou causest to arise in my fles! For I know not, my God, which of the two states deserves more my thanking Thee and which of the two times is more worthy for my praise of Thee: the time of health, within which Thou makest me delight in the agreeable things of Thy provision, through which Thou givest me the joy to seek the means to Thy good pleasure and bounty, and by which Thou strengthenest me for the acts of obedience which Thou hast given me success to accomplish; or the time of illness through which Thou puttest me to the test and bestowest upon me favors: lightening of the offenses that weigh down my back, purification of the evil deeds into which I have plunged, incitement to reach for repentance, reminder of the erasure of misdeeds through ancient favor; and , through all that, what the two writers write for me: blameless acts, which no heart had thought, no tongue had uttered, and no limb had undertaken, rather, as Thy bestowal of bounty upon me and the beneficence of Thy benefaction toward me. 67 O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, make me love what Thou hast approved for me, make easy for me what Thou hast sent down upon me, purify me of the defilement of what I have sent ahead, erase the evil of what I have done beforehand, let me find the sweetness of well-being, let me taste the coolness of safety, and APPOINT FOR ME a way out from my illness to Thy pardon, transformation of my infirmity into Thy forbearance, escape from my distress to Thy refreshment, and safety from this hardship in Thy relie! Thou art gratuitously bountiful in beneficence, ever gracious in kindness, the generous, the Giver, Possessor of majesty and munificenc!
His Supplication (A. S) when he Asked Release from…
His Supplication (A. S) when he Asked Release from his Sins or Pleaded in Seeking Pardon for his Defects O Allah, O He through whose Mercy sinners seek ai! O He to the remembrance of whose beneficence the distressed fle! O He in fear of whom the offenders wee! O Comfort of every lonely strange! O Relief of all who are downcast and distresse! O Aid of everyone abandoned and alon! O Support of every needy outcas! Thou art He who embracest everything in mercy and knowledg! 68 Thou art He who hast appointed for each creature a share of Thy favor! Thou art He whose pardon is higher than His punishmen! O Thou art He whose mercy runs before His wrat! Thou art He whose bestowal is greater than His withholdin! O Thou art He by whose mercy all creatures are embrace! Thou art He who desires no repayment by him upon whom He bestow! Thou art He who does not overdo the punishment of him who disobeys The! And I, my God, am Thy servant whom Thou commanded to supplicate and who said: I am at Thy service and disposa! Here am I, my Lord, thrown down before Thee. I am he whose back offenses have weighed dow! I am he whose lifetime sins have consume! I am he who was disobedient in his ignorance, while Thou didst not deserve that from hi! Wilt Thou, my God, be merciful toward him who supplicates Thee, that I should bring my supplication before Thee? Wilt Thou forgive him who weeps to Thee that I should hurry to weep? Wilt Thou show forbearance toward him who puts his face in the dust before Thee in lowliness? Wilt Thou free from need him who complains to Thee of his indigent need with confidence? My God, disappoint not him who finds no bestower other than Thee, and abandon not him who cannot be freed from his need for Thee through less than The! My God, so bless Muhammad and his Household, turn not away from me when I have turned my face toward Thee, deprive me not when I have besought Thee, and slap not my brow with rejection when I have stood before The! Thou art He who has described Himself by mercy, so bless Muhammad and his Household and have mercy upon m! Thou art He who has named Himself by pardon, so pardon m! Thou hast seen, my God, the flow of my tears in fear of Thee, the throbbing of my heart in dread of Thee, and the infirmity of my limbs in awe of Thee. All this from my shame before Thee because of my evil work! So my voice has become silent, no longer crying to Thee, and my tongue has gone dumb, no longer whispering in prayer. My God, so to Thee belongs prais! How many of my flaws Thou hast covered over without exposing m! How many of my sins Thou hast cloaked without making me notoriou! How many faults I have committed, yet Thou didst not tear away from me their covering, collar me with their detested disgrace, or make their dishonor plain to those of my neighbors who search for my defects and to those who envy Thy favor toward m! But that did not prevent me from passing on to the evil that Thou knowest from m! So who is more ignorant than I, my God, of his own right conduct? Who is more heedless than I of his own good fortune? Who is further than I from seeking to set himself right? For I spend the provision Thou deliverest to me in the disobedience Thou hast prohibited to m! Who sinks more deeply into falsehood and is more intensely audacious in evil than I? For I hesitate between Thy call and the call of Satan and then follow his call without being blind in my knowledge of him or forgetful in my memory of him, while I am certain that Thy call takes to the Garden and his call takes to the Fir! Glory be to The! How marvelous the witness I bear against my own soul and the enumeration of my own hidden affair! And more marvelous than that is Thy lack of haste with me, Thy slowness in attending to m! That is not because I possess honor with Thee, but because Thou waitest patiently for me and art bountiful toward me that I may refrain from disobedience displeasing to Thee and abstain from evil deeds that disgrace me, and because Thou lovest to pardon me more than to punis! But I, my God, am more numerous in sins, uglier in footsteps, more repulsive in acts, more reckless in rushing into falsehood, weaker in awakening to Thy obedience, and less attentive and heedful toward Thy threats, than that I could number for Thee my faults or have the power to recount my sins. I only scold my own soul, craving Thy gentleness, through which the affairs of sinners are set right, and hoping for Thy mercy, through which the necks of the offenders are freed. O Allah, this is my neck, enslaved by sins, so bless Muhammad and his Household and release it through Thy pardo! This is my back, weighed down by offenses, so bless Muhammad and his Household and lighten it through Thy kindnes! My God, were I to weep to Thee until my eyelids drop off, wail until my voice wears out, stand before Thee until my feet swell up, bow to Thee until my backbone is thrown out of joint, prostrate to Thee until my eyeballs fall out, eat the dirt of the earth for my whole life, drink the water of ashes till the end of my days, mention Thee through all of that until my tongue fails, and not lift my glance to the sky's horizons in shame before Thee, yet would I not merit through all of that the erasing of a single one of my evil deed! Though Thou forgivest me when I merit Thy forgiveness and pardonest me when I deserve Thy pardon, yet I have no title to that through what I deserve, nor am I worthy of it through merit, since my repayment from Thee from the first that I disobeyed Thee is the Fir! So if Thou punishest me, Thou dost me no wrong. My God, since Thou hast shielded me with Thy covering and not exposed me, waited patiently for me through Thy generosity, and not hurried me to punishment, and shown me clemency through Thy bounty, and not changed Thy favor upon me or muddied Thy kindly acts toward me, HAVE MERCY ON
my drawn out pleading, my intense misery, and my evil situatio! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, protect me from acts of disobedience, employ me in obedience, provide me with excellent turning back [to Thee], purify me through repentance, strengthen me through preservation from sin, set me right through well-being, let me taste the sweetness of forgiveness, make me the freedman of Thy pardon and the slave released by Thy mercy, and write for me a security from Thy displeasur! Give me the good news of that in the immediate, not the deferred - a good news I recognize - and make known to me therein a sign which I may clearly se! That will not constrain Thee in Thy plenty, distress Thee in Thy power, ascend beyond Thy lack of haste, or tire Thee in Thy great gifts, which are pointed to by Thy signs. Verily Thou dost what Thou wilt, Thou decreest what Thou desirest. Thou art powerful over everything. 69
His Supplication (A. S) when he Mentioned Satan …
His Supplication (A. S) when he Mentioned Satan and Sought Refuge from him and from his Enmity and Trickery O Allah, we seek refuge in Thee from the instigations of the accursed SATAN, his trickery, and his traps, from trust in his false hopes, his promises, his delusions, and his snares, and lest he should make himself crave to lead us away from Thy obedience and to degrade us through our disobeying Thee, and lest what he has shown us as beautiful be beautiful for us and what he has shown us as detestable weigh down upon us. O Allah, drive him away from us through Thy worship, throw him down through our perseverance in Thy love, and place between him and us a covering that he cannot tear away and a solid barrier that he cannot cut throug! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, distract SATAN from us with some of Thy enemies, preserve us from him through Thy good guarding, spare us his treachery, turn his back toward us, and cut off from us his trac! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, give us to enjoy guidance the like of his misguidance, increase us in piety against his seduction, and make us walk in reverential fear contrary to his path of rui! O Allah, assign him no place of entrance into our hearts and do not allow him to make his home in that which is with u! O Allah, cause us to recognize the falsehood with which he tempts us, and once Thou hast caused us to recognize it, protect us from i! Make us see what will allow us to outwit him, inspire us with all that we can make ready for him, awaken us from the heedless slumber of relying upon him, and help us well, through Thy giving success, against hi! O Allah, saturate our hearts with the rejection of his works and be gentle to us by destroying his stratagem! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, turn his authority away from us, cut off his hope from us, and keep him from craving for u! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, and PLACE our fathers, our mothers, our children, our wives, our siblings, our relatives, and the faithful among our neighbors, male and female, in a sanctuary impregnable to him, a guarding fortress, a defending cav! Clothe them in shields protective against him and give them arms that will cut him dow! O Allah, include in that everyone who witnesses to Thee as Lord, devotes himself sincerely to Thy Unity, shows enmity toward him through the reality of servanthood, and seeks help from Thee against him through knowledge of the divine science! O Allah, undo what he ties, unstitch what he sews up, dislocate what he devises, frustrate him when he makes up his mind, and destroy what he establishe! O Allah, rout his troops, nullify his trickery, make his cave collapse, and rub his nose in the groun! O Allah, place us in the ranks of his enemies and remove us from the number of his friends, that we obey him not when he entices us and answer him not when he calls to u! We command everyone who obeys our command to be his enemy and we admonish everyone who follows our prohibition not to follow hi! O Allah, bless Muhammad, the Seal of the prophets and lord of the emissaries, and the folk of his house, the good, the pur! Give refuge to us, our families, our brothers, and all the faithful, male and female, from that from which we seek refuge, and grant us sanctuary from that through fear of which we seek sanctuary in The! Hear our supplication to Thee, bestow upon us that of which we have been heedless, and safeguard for us what we have forgotte! Through all this bring us into the ranks of the righteous and the degrees of the faithfu! Amen, Lord of the world!
His Supplication (A. S) when Perils were Repelled or Requests quickly granted
O Allah, to Thee belongs praise for Thy excellent accomplishment and for Thy trial which Thou hast turned away from m! But make not my share of Thy mercy the well-being which Thou hast quickly granted to me, lest I become wretched through what I have loved and someone else gain felicity through what I have dislike! 70 If this well-being in which I pass the day or night should precede a trial that does not cease and a burden that does not pass away, then set before me what Thou hadst set behind and set behind me what Thou hadst set befor! For that which ends in annihilation is not great and that which ends in subsistence is not little. And bless Muhammad and his Househol!
His Supplication (A. S) in Asking for Water during a Drought
O Allah, water us with rain, unfold upon us Thy mercy through Thy copious rain from the driven clouds, so that Thy goodly earth may grow on all horizon! Show kindness to Thy servants through the ripening of the fruit, revive Thy land through the blossoming of the flowers, and let Thy angels - the noble scribes - be witness to a beneficial watering from Thee, lasting in its abundance, plenty in its flow, heavy, quick, soon, through which Thou revivest what has vanished, through which Thou revivest what has vanished, bringest forth what is coming, and providest plentiful foods, through heaped up, wholesome, productive clouds, in reverberating layers, the rain's downpour not without cease, the lightning's flashes not without frui! O Allah, give us water through rain, helping, productive, fertilizing, widespread, plentiful, abundant, bringing back the risen, restoring the broke! O Allah, give us water with a watering through which Thou wilt make the stone hills pour, fill the cisterns, flood the rivers, make the trees grow, bring down prices in all the lands, invigorate the beasts and the creatures, perfect for us the agreeable things of provision, make grow for us the fields, let flow for us the teats, and add for us strength to our strengt! O Allah, make not the cloud's shadow over us a burning wind, allow not its coldness to be cutting, let not its pouring down upon us be a stoning, and make not its waters for us bitte! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and provide us with the blessings of the heavens and the eart! Thou art powerful over everythin! 71
His Supplication (A. S) on Noble Moral Traits and Acts Pleasing to Allah
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O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, cause my faith to reach the most perfect faith, make my certainty the most excellent certainty, and take my intention to the best of intentions and my works to the best of work! O Allah, complete my intention through Thy gentleness, rectify my certainty through what is with Thee, and set right what is corrupt in me through Thy powe! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, spare me the concerns which distract me, employ me in that about which Thou wilt ask me tomorrow, and let me pass my days in that for which Thou hast created m! Free me from need, expand Thy provision toward me, and tempt me not with ingratitud! Exalt me and afflict me not with prid! Make me worship Thee and corrupt not my worship with self-admiratio! Let good flow out from my hands upon the people and efface it not by my making them feel oblige! 72 Give me the highest moral traits and preserve me from vainglor! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, raise me not a single degree before the people without lowering me its like in myself and bring about no outward exaltation for me without an inward abasement in myself to the same measur! O Allah, bless Muhammad and Muhammad's Household, give me to enjoy a sound guidance which I seek not to replace, a path of truth from which I swerve not, and an intention of right conduct in which I have no doubt! Let me live as long as my life is a free gift in obeying Thee, but if my life should become a pasture for Satan, seize me to Thyself before Thy hatred overtakes me or Thy wrath against be becomes fir! O Allah, deposit in me no quality for which I will be faulted, unless Thou settest it right, no flaw for which I will be blamed, unless Thou makest it beautiful, no deficient noble trait, unless Thou completest i! O Allah, bless Muhammad and Muhammad's Household and REPLACE FOR ME the animosity of the people of hatred with love, the envy of the people of insolence with affection, the suspicion of the people of righteousness with trust, the enmity of those close with friendship, the disrespect of womb relatives with devotion, the abandonment of relatives with help, the attachment of flatterers with love set right, the rejection of fellows with generous friendliness, and the bitterness of the fear of wrongdoers with the sweetness of securit! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, APPOINT FOR ME a hand against him who wrongs me, a tongue against him who disputes with me, and a victory over him who stubbornly resists m! and GIVE ME guile against him who schemes against me, power over him who oppresses me, refutation of him who reviles me, and safety from him who threatens m! Grant me success to obey him who points me straight and follow him who guides me righ! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and POINT ME STRAIGHT TO resist him who is dishonest toward me with good counsel, repay him who separates from me with gentle devotion, reward him who deprives me with free giving, recompense him who cuts me off with joining, oppose him who slanders me with excellent mention give thanks for good, and shut my eyes to evi! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, adorn me with the adornment of the righteous, and clothe me in the ornaments of the God-fearing, through spreading justice, restraining rage, quenching the flame of hate, bringing together the people of separation, correcting discord, spreading about good behavior, covering faults, mildness of temper, lowering the wing, 73 beauty of conduct, gravity of bearing, agreeableness in comportment, precedence in reaching excellence, preferring bounteousness, refraining from condemnation, bestowing bounty on the undeserving, speaking the truth, though it be painful, making little of the good in my words and deeds, though it be much, and making much of the evil in my words and deeds, though it be littl! Perfect this for me through lasting obedience, holding fast to the community, and rejecting the people of innovation and those who act in accordance with original opinion! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, appoint for me Thy widest provision in my old age and Thy strongest strength when I am exhausted, and try me not with laziness in worship of Thee, blindness toward Thy path, undertaking what opposes love for Thee, joining with him who has separated himself from Thee, and separating from him who has joined himself to The! O Allah, MAKE ME leap to Thee in times of distress, ask from Thee in needs, and plead to Thee in miser! TEMPT ME NOT to seek help from other than Thee when I am distressed, to humble myself in asking from someone else when I am poor, or to plead with someone less than Thee when I fear, for then I would deserve Thy abandonment, Thy withholding, and Thy turning away,
part 2
O Most Merciful of the mercifu! O Allah, make the wishing, the doubt, and the envy which Satan throws into my heart a remembrance of Thy mightiness, a reflection upon Thy power, and a devising against Thy enem! Make everything he - Satan - causes to pass over my tongue, the indecent or ugly words, the maligning of good repute, the false witness, the speaking ill of an absent man of faith or the reviling of one present, and all things similar - a speech in praise of Thee, a pursual of eulogizing Thee, an excursion in magnifying Thee, a thanksgiving for Thy favor, an acknowledgment of Thy beneficence, and an enumeration of Thy kindnesse! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, let me not be wronged while Thou canst repel from me, let me not do wrong while Thou art powerful over holding me back, let me not be misguided while Thou art able to guide me, let me not be poor while with Thee is my plenty, let me not be insolent while from Thee comes my wealt! O Allah, I come to Thy forgiveness, I go straight to Thy pardon, I yearn for Thy forbearance, and I trust in Thy bounty, but there is nothing with me to make me warrant Thy forgiveness, nothing in my works to make me merit Thy pardon, and nothing on my behalf after I judge my soul but Thy bounty, so bless Muhammad and his Household and bestow Thy bounty upon m! O Allah, make my speech be guidance, inspire me with reverential fear, give me success in that which is most pure, and employ me in what is most pleasing to The! O Allah, let me thread the most exemplary path and make me live and die in Thy cree! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, give me to enjoy moderation, MAKE ME INTO ONE OF the people of right behavior, the proofs of right conduct, and the servants of righteousness, and provide me with triumph at the place of Return74 and safety from the Ambus! 75 O Allah, take to Thyself from my soul what will purify it and leave for my soul that of my soul that will set it right, for my soul will perish unless Thou preservest i! O Allah, Thou art my stores when I sorrow, Thou art my recourse when I am deprived, from Thee I seek aid when troubled and WITH THEE IS a substitute for everything gone by, a correction for everything corrupted, and a change from everything Thou disapprovest. SO SHOW KINDNESS TO ME WITH well-being before affliction, wealth before asking, right conduct before misguidance; suffice me against the burden of shame toward the servants, give me security on the Day of Return, and grant me excellent right guidanc! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, repel from me through Thy gentleness, feed me through Thy favor, set me right through Thy generosity, heal me through Thy benefaction, shade me in Thy shelter, wrap me in Thy good pleasure, and give me success to reach the most guided of affairs when affairs confuse me, the purest of works when works seem similar, and the most pleasing to Thee of creeds when creeds conflic! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, crown me with sufficiency, place in me excellent guardianship, 76 give me to guide correctly, tempt me not with plenty, grant me excellent ease, make not my life toil and trouble, and refuse not my supplication in rejection, for I make none rival to Thee and I supplicate none with Thee as equa! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, hold me back from prodigality, fortify my provision against ruin, increase my possessions through blessing them, and set me upon the path of guidance through piety in what I spen! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, spare me the burden of earning, and provide for me without reckoning, lest I be distracted from Thy worship through seeking and carry the load of earning's ill result! O Allah, bestow upon me what I seek through Thy power and grant me sanctuary from what I fear through Thy migh! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, save my face through ease, and demean not my dignity through neediness, lest I seek provision from those whom Thou hast provided and ask for bestowal from the worst of Thy creature! Then I would be tried by praising him who gave to me and afflicted with blaming him who held back from me, while Thou - not they - art patron of giving and holding back. O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and provide me with soundness in worship, detachment in renunciation, knowledge put into action, and
abstinence in measur! O Allah, seal my term with Thy pardon, verify my expectation in hoping for Thy mercy, smooth my paths to reach Thy good pleasure, and make my works good in all my state! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, incite me to remember Thee in times of heedlessness, employ me in Thy obedience in days of disregard, open a smooth road for me to Thy love, and complete for me thereby the good of this world and the nex! O Allah, and bless Muhammad and his Household the best Thou hast blessed any of Thy creatures before him and wilt bless any of them after him, and give to us in this world good, and in the next world good, and protect me through Thy mercy from the chastisement of the Fir! 77
His Supplication (A. S) when Something Made him Sorrow and Offenses Made him Worry
O Allah, O Sufficer of the isolated and weak and Protector against terrifying affair! Offenses have isolated me, so there is none to be my companion. I am too weak for Thy wrath and there is none to strengthen me. I have approached the terror of meeting Thee and there is none to still my fear. Who can make me secure from Thee when Thou hast filled me with terror? Who can come to my aid when Thou hast isolated me? Who can strengthen me when Thou hast weakened me? None can grant sanctuary to a vassal, my God, but a lord, none can give security to one dominated but a dominator, none can aid him from whom demands are made but a demander. In Thy hand, my God, is the thread of all that, in Thee the place of escape and flight, so bless Muhammad and his Household, give sanctuary to me in my flight, and grant my reques! O Allah, if Thou shouldst turn Thy generous face away from me, withhold from me Thy immense bounty, forbid me Thy provision, or cut off from me Thy thread, I will find no way to anything of my hope other than Thee nor be given power over what is with Thee through another's aid, for I am Thy servant and in Thy grasp; my forelock is in Thy hand. 78 I have no command along with Thy command. Accomplished is Thy judgment of me, just Thy decree for m! 79 I have not the strength to emerge from Thy authority nor am I able to step outside Thy power. I cannot win Thy inclination, arrive at Thy good pleasure, or attain what is with Thee except through obeying Thee and through the bounty of Thy mercy. My God, I rise in the morning and enter into evening as Thy lowly slave. I own no profit and loss for myself except through Thee. I witness to that over myself and I confess to the frailty of my strength and the paucity of my stratagems. So accomplish what Thou hast promised me and complete for me what Thou hast given me, for I AM THY SLAVE, miserable, abased, frail, distressed, vile, despised, poor, fearful, and seeking sanctuar! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and LET ME NOT forget to remember Thee in what Thou hast done for me, be heedless of Thy beneficence in Thy trying me, or despair of Thy response to me, though it keep me waiting, whether I be in prosperity or adversity, hardship or ease, well-being or affliction, misery or comfort, wealth or distress, poverty or riche! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, make me laud Thee, extol Thee, and praise Thee in all my states so that I rejoice not over what Thou givest me of this world nor sorrow over that of it which Thou withholdest from m! Impart reverential fear of Thee to my heart, employ my body in that which Thou acceptest from me, and divert my soul through obedience to Thee from all that enters upon me, so that I love nothing that displeases Thee and become displeased at nothing that pleases The! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, empty my heart for Thy love, occupy it with remembering Thee, animate it with fear of Thee and quaking before Thee, strengthen it with beseeching Thee, incline it to Thy obedience, set it running in the path most beloved to Thee, and subdue it through desire for what is with Thee all the days of my lif! LET my provision in this world be reverential fear of Thee, 80 my journey be toward Thy mercy, and my entrance be into Thy good pleasur! Appoint for me a lodging in Thy Garden, give me strength to bear everything that pleases Thee, make me flee to Thee and desire what is with Thee, clothe my heart in estrangement from the evil among Thy creatures, and give me intimacy with Thee, Thy friends, and those who obey The! Assign to no wicked person or unbeliever a kindness toward me or a hand that obliges me, nor to me a need for one of the! Rather make the stillness of my heart, the comfort of my soul, my independence and my sufficiency lie in Thee and the best of Thy creature! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, make me their comrade, make me their helper, and oblige me with yearning for Thee and doing for Thee what Thou lovest and approves! Thou art powerful over everything81 and that is easy for Thee.
His
Supplication
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in
Hardship,
Effort,
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Difficult
Affairs
part 1
O Allah, Thou hast charged me concerning myself with that which belongs more to Thee than to me. Thy power over it and over me is greater than my power, so give me in myself what will make Thee pleased with me and take for Thyself Thy good pleasure in my self's well-bein! O Allah, I have no endurance for effort, no patience in affliction, no strength to bear poverty. So forbid me not my provision and entrust me not to Thy creatures, but take care of my need alone and Thyself attend to sufficing m! Look upon me and look after me in all my affairs, for if Thou entrustest me to myself, I will be incapable before myself and fail to undertake that in which my best interest lies. If Thou entrustest me to Thy creatures, they will frown upon me, and if Thou makest me resort to my kinsfolk, they will refuse to give to me; if they give, they will give little and in bad temper, making me feel long obliged and blaming me much. So through Thy bounty, O Allah, free me from need, through Thy mightiness, lift me up, through Thy boundless plenty, open my hand, and with that which is with Thee, suffice m! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, rid me of envy, encircle me against sins, make me abstain from things unlawful, give me not the boldness of disobedient acts, assign me love for that which is with Thee and satisfaction with that which comes to me from Thee, BLESS ME IN that which Thou providest me, that which Thou conferrest upon me, and that through which Thou favourest me, and make me in all my states safeguarded, watched, covered, defended, given refuge, and granted sanctuar! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and let me accomplish everything which Thou hast enjoined upon me or made obligatory for me toward Thee, in one of the ways of Thy obedience, or toward one of Thy creatures, though my body be too frail for that, my strength too feeble, my power not able to reach it, and my possessions and what my hand owns not encompass it, and whether I have remembered it or forgotten it. It, my Lord, is among that which Thou hast counted against me while I have been heedless of it in myself. Let me perform it through Thy plentiful giving and the abundance which is with Thee - for Thou art Boundless, Generous - so that nothing of it may remain against me, lest Thou wouldst wish to settle accounts for it from my good deeds or to compound my evil deeds on the day I meet Thee, my Lor! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and provide me with desire to serve Thee for the sake of my state in the hereafter, such that I know the truthfulness of that [desire in my heart, be dominated by renunciation while in this world, do good deeds with yearning, and remain secure from evil deeds in fright and fea! And GIVE ME A LIGHT WHEREBY I may walk among the people, 82 be guided in the shadows, and seek illumination in doubt and uncertaint! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and PROVIDE ME WITH fear of the threatened gloom and yearning for the promised reward, such that I may find the pleasure of that for which I supplicate Thee and the sorrow of that from which I seek sanctuary in The! O Allah, Thou knowest what will set my affairs right in this world and the next, so be ever gracious toward my need! O Allah, bless Muhammad and Muhammad's Household and provide me with what is Thy right when I fall short in thanking Thee for that through which Thou hast favored me in ease and difficulty, health and sickness, such that I may come to know in myself repose in satisfaction and serenity of soul in that which Thou hast made incumbent upon me in whatever states may occur fear and security, satisfaction and displeasure, loss and gai! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and provide me with a breast safe from envy, such that I envy none of Thy creatures in anything of Thy bounty and such that I see none of Thy favors toward any of Thy creatures in religion or this world, well-being or reverential fear, plenty or ease, without hoping for myself better than it through and from Thee alone, who hast no associat! part 2 O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and PROVIDE ME IN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT WITH caution against offenses and wariness against slips in the state of satisfaction and wrath such that I may remain indifferent toward that which enters upon me from the two states, 83 I work toward Thy obedience and prefer it and Thy good pleasure over all else in both friends and enemies. Then my enemy may stay secure from my wrongdoing and injustice and my friend may despair of my inclination and the bent of my affection. Make me one of those who supplicate Thee with sincerity in ease with the supplication of those who supplicate Thee with sincerity in distres! Verily Thou art Praiseworthy, Glorious. His Supplication (A. S) when he Asked Allah for Well Being and Thanked Him for it O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, clothe me in Thy well-being, wrap me in Thy well-being, fortify me through Thy well-being, honor me with Thy well-being, free me from need through Thy well-being, donate to me Thy well-being, bestow upon me Thy well-being, spread out for me Thy well-being, set Thy well-being right for me, and
separate me not from Thy well-being in this world and the nex! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and make me well with a well-being sufficient, healing, sublime, growing, a well-being that will give birth to well-being in my body, a well-being in this world and the nex! Oblige me through health, security, and safety in my religion and body, insight in my heart, penetration in my affairs, dread of Thee, fear of Thee, strength for the obedience which Thou hast commanded for m! , and avoidance of the disobedience which Thou hast prohibited for m! O Allah, OBLIGE ME THROUGH the Haj, the U'mra, 84 and visiting the graves of Thy Messenger (Thy blessings, mercy, and benedictions upon Thy Messenger and upon the Household of Thy Messenger for as long as Thou causest me to live, in this year of mine and in every year, and make that accepted, thanked, and mentioned before Thee and stored away with The! Make my tongue utter Thy praise, Thy thanksgiving, Thy remembrance, and Thy excellent laudation, and expand my heart toward the right goals of Thy religio! GIVE ME AND MY PROGENY REFUGE FROM the accursed Satan, the evil of venomous vermin, threatening pests, swarming crowds, and evil eyes, the evil of every rebel Satan, 85 the evil of every refractory sovereign, the evil of everyone living in ease and served, the evil of everyone weak or strong, the evil of everyone born high or low, the evil of everyone small or great, the evil of everyone near or far, the evil of everyone, JINN or man, who declares war on Thy Messenger and his Household, and the evil of every crawling creature that Thou hast taken by the foreloc! Surely Thou art on a straight path. 86 O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and IF SOMEONE DESIRES ILL FOR ME, turn him away from me, drive away from me his deception, avert from me his evil, send his trickery back to his own throat, and place before him a barricade, so that Thou mayest blind his eyes toward me, deafen his ears toward my mention, lock his heart toward recalling me, silence his tongue against me, restrain his head, abase his exaltation, break his arrogance, abase his neck, disjoint his pride, and MAKE ME SECURE FROM ALL his injury, his evil, his slander, his backbiting, his faultfinding, his envy, his enmity, his snares, his traps, his foot soldiers, and his cavalr! Surely Thou art Mighty, Powerfu!
His Supplication (A. S) for his Parents (upon the Two of them be peace (O Allah bless Muhammad, Thy slave and Thy messenger, and his Household, the pure, and
single them out for the best of Thy blessings, Thy mercy, Thy benedictions, and Thy peac! And single out my parents, O Allah, for honor with Thee and blessings from Thee, O Most Merciful of the mercifu! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, teach me through inspiration knowledge of everything incumbent upon me toward them, and gather within me knowledge of all that completel! Then make me act in accordance with what Thou hast inspired me and give me the success to put into practice the knowledge Thou hast shown to me, lest I fail to act according to something Thou hast taught me or my limbs feel too heavy to perform that with which Thou hast inspired m! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, as Thou hast ennobled us through him, and bless Muhammad and his Household, as Thou hast made incumbent upon us rights toward the creatures because of hi! 87 O Allah, fill me with awe of my parents, the awe one has toward a tyrannical sovereign, and let me be devoted to them, with the devotion of a compassionate mothe! Make my obedience and devotion to them more gladdening to my eyes than sleep to the drowsy and more refreshing to my breast than drink to the thirsty, so that I may prefer their inclination to my inclination, set their satisfaction before my satisfaction, make much of their devotion to me though it be little, and make little of my devotion to them though it be great. O Allah, lower before them my voice, make agreeable to them my words, make mild before them my temper, make tender toward them my heart, and turn me into their kind companion, their loving frien! O Allah, thank them for my upbringing, reward them for honoring me, and guard them as they guarded me in my infanc! O Allah, and whatever harm has touched them from me, detested thing has reached them from me, or right of theirs which has been neglected by me, allow it to alleviate their sins, raise them in their degrees, and add to their good deed! O He who changes evil deeds into manifold good deed! 88 O Allah, whatever word through which they have transgressed against me, act through which they have been immoderate with me, right of mine which they have left neglected, or obligation toward me in which they have fallen short, I grant it to them and bestow it upon them, and I beseech Thee to remove from them its ill consequence, for I do not accuse them concerning myself, find them slow in their devotion toward me, or dislike the way they have attended to my affairs, my Lor! They have rights against me which are more incumbent precedence in beneficence toward me that is greater, and kindness toward me that is mightier than that I should settle accounts with justice or repay them with equivalents. Where then, my God, would be their long occupation with bringing me up? Where the hardship of their toil in taking care of me? Where the stinting of themselves to provide me with plenty? What an ide! I can never discharge their right against me, fulfill my obligations toward them, or accomplish the duty of serving them. So bless Muhammad and his Household and help me, O Best of those whose help we see! Give me success, O Most Guiding of those whom we beseec! Place me not among the people of disrespect to fathers and mothers on (the day when every soul will be repaid for what it has earned; they shall not be wronged). 89 O Allah, bless Muhammad, his Household, and his progeny and single out my parents for the best which Thou hast singled out for the fathers and mothers of Thy faithful servants, O Most Merciful of the mercifu! O Allah, let me not forget to remember them after my ritual prayers, at every time throughout my night, and in each of the hours of my da! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, forgive me through my supplication for my parents, forgive them through their devotion toward me with unfailing forgiveness, be well pleased with them through my intercession for them with resolute good pleasure, and make them reach through Thy generosity the abodes of safet! O Allah, if Thy forgiveness reaches them first, make them my intercessors, and if Thy forgiveness reaches me first, make me their intercessors, so that we may gather together through Thy gentleness in the house of Thy generosity and the place of Thy forgiveness and merc! Verily Thou art Possessor of abounding bounty and ancient kindness, and Thou art the Most Merciful of the mercifu! 90
His Supplication (A. S) for his Children (upon them be peace (O Allah, BE KIND TO ME THROUGH
the survival of my children, and setting them right for me, allowing me to enjoy the! My God, make long their lives for me, increase their terms, bring up the smallest for me, strengthen the weakest for me, rectify for me their bodies, their religious dedication, and their moral traits, make them well in their souls, their limbs, and everything that concerns me of their affair, and pour out for me and upon my hand their provision! MAKE THEM pious, fearing, insightful, hearing, and obedient toward Thee, loving and well-disposed toward Thy friends, and stubbornly resistant and full of hate toward all Thy enemie! Ame! O Allah, through them strengthen my arm, straighten my burdened back, multiply my number, adorn my presence, keep alive my mention, suffice me when I am away, help me in my needs, and MAKE THEM loving toward me, affectionate, approaching, upright, obedient, never disobedient, disrespectful, opposed, or offender! Help me in their upbringing, their education, and my devotion toward them, give me among them from Thyself male children, make that a good for me, and make them a help for me in that which I ask from The! Give me and my progeny refuge from the accursed SATAN, for Thou hast created us, commanded us, and prohibited us, and made us desire the reward of what Thou hast commanded, and fear its punishmen! Thou assigned to us an enemy who schemes against us, gave him an authority over us in a way that Thou didst not give us authority over him, allowed him to dwell in our breasts and let him run in our blood vessels; he is not heedless, though we be heedless, he does not forget, though we forget; he makes us feel secure from Thy punishment and fills us with fear toward other than Thee. If we are about to commit an indecency, he gives us courage to do so, and if we are about to perform a righteous work, he holds us back from it. He opposes us through passions, 91 and sets up for us doubts. If he promises us, he lies, and if he raises our hopes, he fails to fulfill them. If Thou dost not turn his trickery away from us, he will misguide us, and if Thou dost not protect us from his corruption, he will cause us to slip. O Allah, so defeat his authority over us through Thy authority, such that Thou holdest him back from us through the frequency of our supplication to Thee and we leave his trickery and rise up among those preserved by Thee from si! O Allah, grant me my every request, accomplish for me my needs, withhold not from me Thy response when Thou hast made Thyself accountable for it to me, 92 veil not my supplication from Thyself, when Thou hast commanded me to make it, 93 and be kind to me through everything that will set me right in this world and the next, in everything that I remember or forget, display or conceal, make public or keep secre! In all of this, place me through my asking Thee among those who set things right, those who are answered favorably when they request from Thee and from whom is not withheld when they put their trust in Thee, those accustomed to seek refuge in Thee, those who profit through commerce with Thee, those granted sanctuary through Thy might, those given lawful provision in plenty from Thy boundless bounty through Thy munificence and generosity, those who reach exaltation after abasement through Thee, those granted sanctuary from wrong through Thy justice, those released from affliction through Thy mercy, those delivered from need after poverty through Thy riches, those preserved from sins, slips, and offenses through reverential fear toward Thee, those successful in goodness, right conduct, and propriety through obeying Thee, those walled off from sins through Thy power, the refrainers from every act of disobedience toward Thee, the dwellers in Thy neighborhoo! O Allah, give me all of that through Thy bestowal of success and Thy mercy, grant us refuge from the chastisement of the burning, and give to all the Muslims, male and female, and all the faithful, male and female, the like of what I have asked for myself and my children, in the immediate of this world and the deferred of the nex! Verily Thou art the Near, the Responder, the All-hearing, the All-knowing, the Pardoner, the Forgiving, the Clement, the Mercifu! And (give to us in this world good, and in the next world good, and protect us from the chastisement of the Fir! ) 94
His Supplication (A. S) for his Neighbors and Friends when he Mentioned them
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and attend to me with Thy best attending in my neighbors and friends who recognize our right95 and war against our enemie! GIVE [MY NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS] SUCCESS IN performing Thy prescriptions and taking on the beauties of Thy courtesy through acting gently with their weak, remedying their lacks, visiting their sick, guiding their seeker of right guidance, giving good counsel to their seeker of advice, attending to the one among them who returns from travel, hiding their secrets, covering over their shameful things, helping their wronged, sharing kindly with them in goods, turning toward them with wealth and bestowal of bounty, and giving what is due to them before they as! Let me, O Allah, repay their evildoer with good-doing, turn away from their wrongdoer with forbearance, have a good opinion of every one of them, attend to all of them with devotion, lower my eyes before them in continence, make mild my side toward them in humility, be tender toward the afflicted among them in mercy, make them happy in absence through affection, love that they continue to receive favor through good will, grant them what I grant my next of kin, and observe for them what I observe for my special friend! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, provide me the like of that from them, appoint for me the fullest share of what is with them, increase them in insight toward my right and knowledge of my excellence so that they will be fortunate through me and I fortunate through the! Amen, Lord of the world!
His Supplication (A. S) for the People of the Frontiers
part 1
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, fortify the frontiers of the Muslims through Thy might, support their defenders through Thy strength, and lavish upon them gifts through Thy wealt! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, increase their number, hone their weapons, guard their territory, defend their midst, unite their throng, arrange their affair, send them supplies in a steady string, undertake Thyself to suffice them with provisions, support them with victory, help them with patience, and give them subtlety in guil! 96 O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, give them the knowledge of that of which they are ignorant, teach them what they do not know, and show them what they do not se! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, make them forget when they meet the enemy to remember this cheating and delusive world of theirs, erase from their hearts the thought of enchanting possessions, place the Garden before their eyes, and display to their sight that part of it which Thou hast prepared for them — the homes of everlastingness and mansions of honor, the beautiful HOURIS, the rivers gushing forth with all sorts of drinks, the trees hanging low with all kinds of fruits - lest any of them think of turning his back or suggest to himself to flee his opponen! O Allah, defeat their enemy through that, trim their nails from them, separate them from their weapons, pull out the firm ties from their hearts, keep them far away from their stores, bewilder them in their roads, turn them astray from their direction, cut off reinforcements from them, chop them down in numbers, fill their hearts with terror, hold back their hands from stretching forth, tie back their tongues from speaking, scatter by them the ones behind them, 97 make them a lesson for those beyond them, and through their degradation cut off the hopes of those who come after the! O Allah, make the wombs of their women barren, dry up the loins of their men, cut off the breeding of their mounts and their cattle, and permit not their sky to rain or their earth to gro! O Allah, through that strengthen the prowess98 of the People of Islam, fortify their cities, increase their properties, give them ease from their fighting to worship Thee and from their warfare to be alone with Thee, so that none will be worshiped in the regions of the earth but Thee and no forehead of theirs may be rubbed in dust for less than The! O Allah, send out the Muslims of every region on raids against the idolaters who face them Reinforce them with angels in ranks from Thee, till the idolaters are routed by them to the end of the land, slain in Thy earth or taken captive, or till they admit that Thou art Allah, other than whom there is no god, Thou alone, who hast no associat! O Allah, include in this Thy enemies in the regions of the lands, the Indians, the Byzantines, the Turks, the Khazars, the Abyssinians, the Nbbians, the Zanjeess, the Slavs, the Daylamites, and the rest of the idol-worshiping nations, those whose names and attributes are concealed, but whom Thou countest in Thy cognizance and overseest through Thy powe! O Allah, distract the idolaters from reaching for the borders of the Muslims through the idolaters, bar them from cutting them down through being cut down, and hold them back from massing together against them through dissensio! part 2 O Allah, empty their hearts of security and their bodies of strength, distract their hearts from thinking of stratagems, make their limbs too feeble for clashing with men, make them too cowardly for contending with champions, send against them a troop of Thy angels with some of Thy severity as Thou didst on the Day of BADR, 99 so that through it Thou mayest cut off their roots, harvest their thorns, and disperse their numbe! O Allah, mix their waters with pestilence and their foods with maladies, hurl down their cities, harass them with peltings, hinder them through drought, place their supplies in the most ill-omened part of Thy earth and the farthest from them, bar them from its fortresses, and strike them with constant hunger and painful illnes! O Allah, if a warrior from the people of Thy creed wars against them or a struggler from the followers of Thy prescriptions struggles against them so that Thy religion may be the highest, Thy party the strongest, and Thy share the fullest, cast ease to him, arrange his affair, attend to him by granting success, select for him his companions, strengthen his back, lavish upon him livelihood, give him enjoyment of joyous vitality. cool for him the heat of yearning, give him sanctuary from the gloom of loneliness, make him forget the remembrance of wife and child, pass along to him an excellent intention, attend to him with well-being, make safety his companion, release him from cowardice, inspire him with boldness, provide him with strength, support him with help, teach him right conduct and the norms of the SUNNA, point him straight in judgment, remove from him hypocrisy,
purify him from seeking fame, and make his thinking and remembrance, his departing and his staying, be in Thee and for The! When he stands in ranks before Thy enemy and his enemy, make them few in his eye, diminish their importance in his heart, give him a turn to prevail over them, not them a turn to prevail over hi! But if Thou sealest him with felicity and decreest for him martyrdom, then let it be after he has exterminated Thy enemies by slaying, captivity has afflicted them, the borders of the Muslims are secure, and Thy enemy has turned his back in fligh! O Allah, and if a Muslim should take the place of a warrior or a soldier in his home, attend to those left behind in his absence, help him with a portion of his property, assist him with equipment, hone him for the struggle, send along with him a supplication for his purpose, or guard his honor in his absence, reward him with the like of his reward, measure for measure, like for like, and recompense him for his act with an immediate compensation through which he will hasten to the profit of what he has sent forth and the joy of what he has given, till the present moment takes him to the bounty Thou hast granted to him and the generosity Thou hast prepared for hi! O Allah and if the affair of Islam should worry a Muslim and the alliance of the idolaters' against Islam should grieve him, so that he has the intention to go to war and is about to enter the struggle, but frailty keeps him seated, neediness keeps him waiting, a mishap delays him, or an obstruction prevents him from his wish, write his name among the worshipers, make incumbent for him the reward of the strugglers, and place him among the ranks of the martyrs and the righteou! O Allah bless Muhammad, Thy slave and Thy messenger, and the Household of Muhammad, with a blessing high above all other blessings, towering beyond all other salutations, a blessing whose end is never reached and whose number is never cut off, like the most perfect of Thy blessings that has passed to any one of Thy friend! Thou art All-kind, Praiseworthy, the Originator who takes back again, Accomplisher of what Thou desirest.
His Supplication (A. S) in Fleeing to Allah (Mighty and Majestic is He (O Allah
I showed sincerity by cutting myself off from everything but Thee. I approached Thee with my whole self. I averted my face from everyone who needs Thy support. I ceased to ask from any who cannot do without Thy bounty. I saw that the needy who seeks from the needy is foolish in his opinion, and misguided in his intellect. How many people have I seen, my God, who sought exaltation through other than Thee and were abased, who wanted wealth from someone else and became poor, who tried to rise high and fell down lo! Observing the likes of them corrects a prudent man; his taking heed gives him success; his choosing the best guides him to the path of right. So Thou, my Master, art the object of my asking to the exclusion of all those who are asked and the patron of my need to the exclusion of all those from whom requests are made. Thou art singled out for my call before all who are called; none is associated with Thee in my hope, none comes along with Thee in my supplication, nor does any join with Thee within it, for to Thee is my appeal. To Thee, my God, belongs the Unity of number, the property of eternal power, the excellence of force and strength, the degree of sublimity and elevation. Everyone other than Thee is the object of compassion in his lifetime, overcome in his affair, overwhelmed in his situation, diverse in states, constantly changing in attributes. So Thou art high exalted above likenesses and opposites, proudly magnified beyond similitudes and rival! Glory be to The! There is no god but Thou.
His Supplication (A. S) when his Provision was Stinted
O Allah, Thou hast tried us with distrust in our provisions and the expectation of long lives, until we begged for provisions from those who are provided and craved in our expectations the life-spans of the long-live! So bless Muhammad and his Household, give us a true certainty that will suffice us the burden of seeking, and inspire us with a sincere trust that will release us from the hardship of exertio! Let Thy clear promise in Thy Revelation which Thou hast followed in Thy Book with Thy oath cut off our worry about the provision for which Thou hast made Thyself responsible and sever our occupation with everything whose sufficiency Thou hast guarantee! For Thou hast said and Thy word is the most truthful truth and Thou hast sworn - and Thy oath is the most kept and fulfilled - (In the heaven are your provision and everything you are promised). And then Thou hast said: ) So by the Lord of heaven and earth, it is as surely true as that you have speec! ) 100
His Supplication (A. S) for Help in Repaying Debts
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and release me from a debt which makes me lose face, confuses my mind, disrupts my thinking, and prolongs my occupation with attending to i! O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee, my Lord, from worry and thought about debt, from the distraction and sleeplessness of debt; so bless Muhammad and his Household and give me refuge from i! I seek sanctuary in Thee, my Lord, from debt's abasement in life and its ill effects after death, so bless Muhammad and his Household and give me sanctuary from it through a bountiful plenty or a continually arriving sufficienc! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household prevent me from extravagance and excess, put me on the course of generous spending and moderation, teach me excellent distribution, hold me back through Thy gentleness from squandering, allow me to attain my provisions through lawful means, direct my spending toward the gateways of devotion, and take away from me any possession which will bring forth pride in me, lead to insolence, or drag me in its heels to rebellio! O Allah, make me love the companionship of the poor and help me be their companion with excellent patienc! Whenever Thou takest away from me the goods of this perishing world, store them for me in Thy abiding treasurie! Make this world's broken pieces which Thou hast conferred upon me and its goods which Thou hast quickly granted to me a way to reach Thy neighborhood, a link to Thy nearness, and a means to Thy Garde! Verily Thou art Possessor of bounty abounding, and Thou art the Munificent, the Generous.
His Supplication (A. S) in Mentioning and Asking for Repentance
part 1
O Allah, O He whom the depiction of the describers fails to describ! O He beyond whom passes not the hope of the hoper! O He with whom is not lost the wage of the good-doer! O He who is the ultimate object of the fear of the worshiper! O He who is the utmost limit of the dread of the god-fearin! This is the station of him whom sins have passed from hand to hand. Offenses' reins have led him on, and SATAN has gained mastery over him. He fell short of what Thou hast commanded through neglect and he pursued what Thou hast prohibited in delusion, like one ignorant of Thy power over him or one who denies the bounty of Thy beneficence toward him, until, when the eye of guidance was opened for him and the clouds of blindness were dispelled, he reckoned that through which he had wronged himself and reflected upon that in which he had opposed his Lord. He saw his vast disobedience as vast and his great opposition as great. So he turned to Thee, hoping in Thee and ashamed before Thee, and he directed his beseeching toward Thee, having trust in Thee. He repaired to Thee in his longing with certitude and he went straight to Thee in fear with sincerity. His longing was devoid of every object of longing but Thee, and his fright departed from every object of fear but Thee. So he stood before Thee pleading, his eyes turned toward the ground in humbleness, his head bowed before Thy might in lowliness; he revealed to Thee in meekness those secrets of his which Thou knowest better than he; he numbered for Thee in humility those sins of his which Thou countest better than he; he sought help from Thee before the dreadful into which he has fallen in Thy knowledge and the ugly which has disgraced him in Thy judgment the sins whose pleasures have turned their backs and gone and whose evil consequences have stayed and stuck fast. He will not deny Thy justice, my God, if Thou punishest him, nor will he consider Thy pardon great if Thou pardonest him and hast mercy upon him, for Thou art the Generous Lord for whom the forgiveness of great sins is nothing grea! O Allah, so here I am: I have come to Thee obeying Thy command (for Thou hast commanded supplication) and asking the fulfillment of Thy promise, (for Thou hast promised to respond): Thou hast said, (Supplicate Me and I will respond to you). 101 O Allah, So bless Muhammad and his Household, meet me with Thy forgiveness just as I have met Thee with my confession, lift me up from the fatal infirmities of sins just as I have let myself down before Thee, and cover me with Thy covering just as Thou hast shown no haste to take vengeance on m! O Allah, make firm my intention to obey Thee, strengthen my insight in worshiping Thee, give me the success of works which will wash away the defilement of offenses, and take me when Thou takest me in the creed of Thy prophet Muhammad (upon him be peace (. O Allah, I repent to Thee in this my station from my sins, great and small, my evil deeds, inward and outward, my lapses, past and recent, with the repentance of one who does not tell himself that he might disobey or secretly think that he might return to an offense. Thou hast said, my God, in the firm text of Thy Book, that Thou acceptest repentance from Thy servants, 102 pardonest evil deeds, 103 and lovest the repenters, 104 so accept my repentance as Thou hast promised, pardon my evil deeds as thou hast guaranteed, and make obligatory toward me Thy love as Thou hast stipulate! To Thee, my Lord, belongs my stipulation that I will not return to what is disliked by Thee, my guarantee that I will not go back to what Thou blamest, and my covenant that I will stay away from acts of disobedience to Thee. O Allah, Thou knowest better what I have done, so forgive me what Thou knowest and turn me through Thy power to what Thou lovest O Allah, counted against me are claims that stay in my memory and claims that I have forgotten, while all of them remain in Thy eye that does not sleep and Thy knowledge that does not forge! So compensate their owners, lighten their load upon me, lift up their weight from me, and preserve me from approaching their lik! O Allah, but I can not be faithful to my repentance without Thy preservation, nor can I refrain from offenses without Thy strength. So strengthen me with a sufficient strength and attend to me with a defending preservatio! O Allah, if any servant repents to Thee, while in Thy knowledge of the Unseen will break his repentance and return to his sin and offense, I seek refuge in Thee lest I be like tha! part 2 So make this my repentance a repentance after which I will need no repentance and a repentance which will obligate the erasing of what has gone by and safety in what remain! O Allah, I ask pardon from Thee for my ignorance, and I ask Thee to disregard my evil act! So join me to the shelter of Thy mercy through graciousness and cover me with the covering of Thy well-being through bounteousnes! O Allah, I repent to Thee from everything opposed to Thy will or far from Thy love — the thoughts of my heart, the glances of my eye, the tales of my tongue - with a repentance through which each bodily part will by itself stay safe from ill consequences with Thee and remain secure from Thy painful penalties feared by transgressor! O Allah, so have mercy on my being alone before Thee, the pounding of my heart in dread of Thee, the trembling of my limbs in awe of The! My sins, my God, have stood me in the station of degradation in Thy courtyard. If I remain silent, none will speak for me; if I seek an intercessor, I am not worthy for intercession.
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, make Thy generosity intercede for my offenses, follow up my evil deeds with Thy pardon, repay me not with the punishment that is my proper repayment, spread over me Thy graciousness, wrap me in Thy covering, and do with me what is done by a mighty man, when a lowly slave pleads to him and he shows him mercy, or a rich man, when a poor slave submits himself and he raises him to wealt! O Allah, I have no protector against Thee, so let Thy might be my protecto! I have no intercessor with Thee, so let Thy bounty be my intercesso! My offenses have set me quaking, so let Thy pardon give me securit! Not all that I have said rises up from my ignorance of my evil footsteps or forgetfulness of my blameworthy acts in the past, but in order that Thy heaven and those within it and Thy earth and those upon it may hear the remorse which I have professed to Thee and the repentance through which I have sought asylum with Thee. Then perhaps one of them, through Thy mercy, may show mercy upon my evil situation or be seized by tenderness for my evil state. There may come from him for my sake a supplication to which Thou givest ear more than to my supplication or an intercession surer with Thee than my intercession through which I may be delivered from Thy wrath and attain to Thy good pleasur! O Allah, if remorse is a repentance toward Thee, 105 then I am the most remorseful of the remorsefu! If refraining from disobedience is a turning back to Thee, then I am the first of those who turn bac! If praying for forgiveness alleviates sins, surely I am one of those who pray for Thy forgivenes! O Allah, as Thou hast commanded repentance and guaranteed acceptance, as Thou hast urged supplication, and promised to respond, so bless Muhammad and his Household, accept my repentance, and return me not to the returning place of disappointment in Thy merc! Surely Thou art Ever-turning toward the sinners. All-compassionate106 toward the offenders who turn bac! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household just as Thou hast guided us by hi! Bless Muhammad and his Household just as Thou hast rescued us through hi! 107 Bless Muhammad and his Household, with a blessing that will intercede for us on the Day of Resurrection, the day of neediness toward The! Thou art powerful over everything, 108 and that is easy for The!
His Supplication (A. S) for himself in Confessing Sins after Finishing the Night Prayer
part 1
O Allah, O Possessor of kingdom perpetual in everlastingness, authority invincible without armies or helpers, might abiding through aeons past, years gone by, times and days elapse! Thy authority is mighty with a might that knows no bound by being first nor utmost end by being las! Thy kingdom towers high with a towering before which all things fall down without reaching its term; the least of it which Thou hast kept to Thyself is not reached by the furthest description of the describer! Attributes go astray in Thee, descriptions fall apart below Thee, the subtlest of imaginations are bewildered by Thy magnificenc! So art Thou: Allah, the First in Thy firstness, and so art Thou everlastingly. Thou dost not pass away. But I am the slave, feeble in works, immense in hopes. The tying links are outside my hand, except what is tied by Thy mercy; the bonds of hopes have been cut away from me, except the pardon to which I hold fast. Little on my part is the obedience toward Thee upon which I count, and great against me the disobedience toward Thee to which I have reverted. But pardoning Thy slave will not constrain Thee, even if he be bad, so pardon m! O Allah, Thy knowledge watches over hidden works, every covered thing is exposed before Thy awareness, the intricacies of things are not concealed from Thee, and unseen mysteries slip not away from Thee. But over me Thy enemy has gained mastery: He asked a delay from Thee to lead me astray, and Thou gavest him the dela! He asked a respite from Thee until the Day of Doom to misguide me, and Thou gavest him the respit! 109 So he threw me down, though I had fled to Thee from small, ruinous sins and great, deadly works, until, when I had yielded to disobeying Thee and merited Thy anger through my bad efforts, he turned the bridle of his treachery away from me, met me with the word of his ingratitude, undertook to be quit of me, 110 turned his back to flee from me, threw me to the desert of Thy wrath alone, and sent me as an outcast into the courtyard of Thy vengeance. There is no intercessor to intercede for me with Thee, no protector to make me feel secure against Thee, no fortress to veil me from Thee, no shelter in which to seek asylum apart from The! This is the station of him who takes refuge with Thee, the place of the confessor to Thee: Let not Thy bounty be too narrow for me, let not Thy pardon fall short of m! Let me not be the most disappointed of Thy repentant servants, nor the most despairing of those who come to Thee with expectation! Forgive me, surely Thou art the best of the forgiver! O Allah, Thou commanded me, and I refrained, Thou prohibited me, and I committed. Evil thoughts tempted me to offend, and I was negligent. I cannot call upon daytime to witness my fasting, nor can I seek sanctuary in night because of my vigil; no SUNNA praises me for keeping it alive, only Thy obligations, he who neglects which has perished. I cannot seek access to Thee through the excellence of a supererogatory work, given the many duties of Thy obligations of which I have been heedless and the stations of Thy bounds which I have transgressed, thereby violating sacred things and committing great sins, though Thou hast given me safety from their disgraces as a covering. , This is the station of him who is ashamed of himself before Thee, angry with himself, and satisfied with Thee. He meets Thee with a humble soul, a neck bent down, a back heavy with offenses, hesitating between longing for Thee and fear of Thee. Thou art the most worthy of those in whom he might hope, the most deserving for him to dread and fear. So give me, my Lord, what I hope for, make me secure against what frightens me, and act kindly toward me with the kindly act of merc! Surely Thou art the most generous of those from whom are asked part 2 O Allah, since Thou hast covered me with Thy pardon and shielded me with Thy bounty in the abode of annihilation and the presence of equals, grant me sanctuary from the disgraces of the Abode of Subsistence at the standing places of the Witnesses (the angels brought nigh, the messengers honored, the martyrs, the righteous) before the neighbor from whom I have hidden my evil deeds and the womb relative before whom I feel ashamed in my secret thought! I trust them not, my Lord, to cover me over, but I trust Thee, my Lord, to forgive m! Thou art the most worthy of those in whom confidence is had, the most giving of those who are besought, and the most clement of those from whom mercy is asked. So have mercy upon m! O Allah, Thou caused me to descend as mean water from loins of narrow bones and tight passages into a constricted womb which Thou hadst covered with veils; 111 Thou turned me about from state to state until Thou tookest me to the completion of the form fixed within me the bodily parts, as Thou hast described in Thy Book: (a drop, then a clot, then a tissue, then bones, then Thou garmented the bones with flesh, then Thou produced me as another creature as Thou willed. 112 Then, when I needed Thy provision, and could not do without the aid of Thy bounty, Thou appointed for me a nourishment from the bounty of the food and drink which Thou bestowed upon Thy handmaid in whose belly Thou gavest me to rest and in the lodging of whose womb Thou deposited me. Hadst Thou entrusted me in those states, my Lord, to my own force or driven me to have recourse to my own strength, force would have been removed from me and strength taken far away. So Thou hast fed me through Thy bounty with the food of the Good, the Gentle; Thou hast done that for me in graciousness toward me up to this my present point. I do not lack Thy goodness, nor does Thy benefaction keep me waiting. Yet with all that, my trust has not become firm enough that I might free myself for that which is more favored by Thee. SATAN has taken possession of my reins through my distrust and frail certainty. I complain of his evil neighborhood with me and my soul's obedience toward hi! I ask Thee to preserve me against his domination, and I plead with Thee to turn his trickery away from m!
I ask Thee to make the path to my provision easy, since to Thee belongs praise for Thy beginning with immense favors and Thy inspiring gratitude for beneficence and bestowing favo! Bless Muhammad and his Household, and make the way to my provision easy for m! [I ask Thee] to make me content with Thy ordainment for me, to make me satisfied with my lot in that which Thou hast apportioned for me and to place what has gone of my body and my life-span into the path of Thy obedienc! 113 Surely Thou art the Best of provider! O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from the Fire through which Thou art harsh toward him who disobeys Thee and by which Thou hast threatened him who turns away from Thy good pleasure; from the Fire whose light is darkness, whose ease is pain, and whose far is near; from the Fire parts of which devour parts and parts of which leap upon parts; from the Fire which leaves bones decayed and lets its people drink boiling water; from the Fire which 'does not spare him who pleads to it, '114 has no mercy on him who seeks sympathy from it, and has no power to relieve him who humbles himself before it and yields himself to it; it meets its inhabitants with the hottest that it possesses: painful punishment and intense noxiousness. I SEEK REFUGE IN THEE FROM its gaping-jawed scorpions, its scraping-toothed serpents, and its drinks, which tear apart the intestines and hearts of its inhabitants and root out their marrows. I ask guidance from Thee to that which will keep far from it and make it retrea! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, grant me sanctuary from it through the bounty of Thy mercy, release me from my stumbles through Thy good releasing, and abandon me not, O Best of the sanctuary-granter! O Allah, Thou protectest from the disliked, givest the good, dost what Thou wilt, and Thou art powerful over everything. 115 O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household when the pious are mentioned and bless Muhammad and his Household as long as night and day come and go with a blessing whose replenishment is never cut off and whose number cannot be counted, a blessing that will fill up the air and crowd the earth and the heave! O Allah bless him until he is well pleased and O Allah bless him and his Household after good pleasure with a blessing that has neither bound nor utmost limi! O Most Merciful of the mercifu!
His Supplication (A. S) in Asking for the Best
O Allah, I ask from Thee the best in Thy knowledge, so bless Muhammad and his Household and decree for me the bes! Inspire us with knowledge to chose the best and make that a means to being pleased with what Thou hast decreed for us and submitting to what Thou hast decide! Banish from us the doubt of misgiving and confirm us with the certainty of the sincer! Visit us not with incapacity to know what Thou hast chosen, lest we despise Thy measuring out, dislike the place of Thy good pleasure, and incline toward that which is further from good outcome and nearer to the opposite of well-bein! Make us love what we dislike in Thy decree and make easy for us what we find difficult in Thy decisio! Inspire us to yield to that which Thou bringest upon us by Thy will, lest we love the delay of what Thou hast hastened and the hastening of what Thou hast delayed, dislike what Thou lovest, and choose what Thou dislikes! Seal us with that which is most praised in outcome and most generous in issu! Surely Thou givest generous gain, bestowest the immense, dost what Thou wilt, and Thou art powerful over everything. 116
His Supplication (A. S) when he was Afflicted or …
His Supplication (A. S) when he was Afflicted or saw Someone Afflicted with the Disgrace of Sin O Allah, to Thee belongs praise for Thy covering over after Thy knowledge and Thy pardon after Thy awarenes! Each of us has committed faults, but Thou hast not made him notorious done indecencies, but Thou hast not disgraced him, and covered over evil deeds, but Thou hast not pointed to him. HOW MANY ARE Thy prohibited acts which we have performed, Thy commandments of which Thou hast told us which we have transgressed, the evil deeds which we have earned, the offenses which we have committe! Thou seest them to the exclusion of all observers; Thou hast the power to make them public above all the powerfu! By giving us safety Thou hast veiled their eyes and stoppled their ears. So make the shameful things Thou hast covered over and the inward reality Thou hast concealed our admonisher, a restrainer upon bad character traits and committing offenses, and a striving toward the repentance that erases [sins] and the praiseworthy pat! Bring the time of striving near and visit us not with heedlessness of The! Surely we are Thy beseechers, the repenters of sins. And bless Thy chosen, O Allah, from Thy creation, Muhammad and his descendants, the friends selected from among Thy creatures, the pure, and make us listeners to them and obeyers, as Thou hast commande! 117
His Supplication (A. S) in Satisfaction when he Looked upon the Companions of this World
Praise belongs to Allah in satisfaction with Allah's decisio! I bear witness that Allah has apportioned the livelihoods of His servants with justice and undertaken bounty for all His creatures. O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, tempt me not with what Thou hast given to Thy creatures and tempt them not with what Thou hast withheld from me, lest I envy Thy creatures and despise Thy decisio! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, delight my soul through Thy decree, expand my breast through the instances of Thy decision, give to me a trust through which I may admit that Thy decree runs only to the best, and let my gratitude to Thee for what Thou hast taken away from me be more abundant than my gratitude to Thee for what Thou hast conferred upon m! Preserve me from imagining any meanness in someone who is destitute or imagining any superiority in someone who possesses wealth, for the noble is he whom obedience to Thee has ennobled and the exalted is he whom worship of Thee has exalte! So bless Muhammad and his Household, give us to enjoy a wealth which does not run out, confirm us with an exaltation which will never be lost, and let us roam freely in the kingdom of everlastingnes! Surely Thou art the One, the Unique, the Eternal Refuge; Thou hast not begotten, nor hast Thou been begotten, and equal to Thee is not any on! 118
His Supplication (A. S) when he Looked upon Clouds and Lightening and Heard the Sound of Thunder
O Allah, these are two of Thy signs and these are two of Thy helpers. They rush to obey Thee with beneficial mercy or injurious vengeance, so rain not down upon us from them the evil rain119 and clothe us not through them in the garment of afflictio! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, send down upon us the benefit of these clouds and their blessing, turn away from us their harm and their injury, strike us not through them with blight, and loose not upon our livelihoods any ban! O Allah, if Thou hast incited them as vengeance and loosed them in anger, we seek sanctuary with. Thee from Thy wrath and implore Thee in asking Thy pardo! So incline with wrath toward the idolaters and set the millstone of Thy vengeance turning upon the heretic! 120 O Allah, take away the barrenness of our lands with Thy watering, dislodge the malice from our breasts with Thy providing, distract us not from Thee through other than Thee, and cut none of us off from the stuff of Thy goodness, for the rich is he to whom Thou hast given riches, and the safe he whom Thou hast protecte! No one has any defense against Thee, nor any means to bar Thy penalty. Thou decidest what Thou wilt for whom Thou wilt and Thou decreest what Thou desirest for any whom Thou desires! to Thee belongs praise for protecting us from affliction and to Thee belongs thanks for conferring upon us blessings, a praise which will leave behind the praise of the praisers, a praise which will fill the earth and the heave! Surely Thou art the All-kind through immense kindnesses, the Giver of abounding favors, the Accepter of small praise, the Grateful for little gratitude, the Beneficent, the Benevolent, Possessor of graciousnes! There is no god but Thou; unto Thee is the homecoming. 121
His Supplication (A. S) when Confessing his Shortcomings in Giving Thanks
O Allah, no one reaches a limit in thanking Thee without acquiring that of Thy beneficence which enjoins upon him thanksgiving, nor does anyone reach a degree in obeying Thee, even if he strives, without falling short of what Thou deservest because of Thy bounty. The most thankful of Thy servants has not the capacity to thank Thee, and the most worshipful of them falls short of obeying Thee. To none of them is due Thy forgiveness through what he himself deserves or Thy good pleasure for his own merit. When Thou forgivest someone, it is through Thy graciousness, and when Thou art pleased with someone, it is through Thy bounty. Thou showest gratitude for the paltry for which Thou showest gratitude122 and Thou rewardest the small act in which Thou art obeyed, so that it seems as if Thy servants' thanksgiving for which Thou hast made incumbent their reward and made great their repayment is an affair from which they could have held back without Thee, and hence Thou wilt recompense them, and whose cause is not in Thy hand, and hence Thou wilt repay them. Nay, my God, Thou hadst power over their affair before they had power to worship Thee, and Thou hadst prepared their reward before they began to obey Thee; and that because Thy wont is bestowal of bounty, Thy custom beneficence, Thy way pardon. So all creatures confess that Thou wrongest not him whom Thou punishest and bear witness that Thou bestowest bounty upon him whom Thou pardonest. Each admits that he has fallen short of what Thou meritest. Had SATAN not misled them from Thy obedience, no disobeyer would have disobeyed Thee, and had he not shown falsehood to them in the likeness of truth no strayer would have gone astray from Thy path. So Glory be to The! How manifest is Thy generosity in dealing with him who obeys or disobeys The! Thou showest gratitude to the obedient for that which Thou undertakest for him, and Thou grantest a respite to the disobedient in that within which Thou art able to hurry him. Thou givest to each of them that which is not his due, and Thou bestowest bounty upon each in that wherein his works fall short. Wert Thou to counterbalance for the obedient servant that which Thou Thyself hadst undertaken, he would be on the point of losing Thy reward and seeing the end of Thy favor, but through Thy generosity Thou hast repaid him for a short, perishing term with a long, everlasting term, and for a near, vanishing limit with an extended,???? limit. Then Thou dost not visit him with a settling of accounts for Thy provision through which he gained strength to obey Thee, nor dost Thou force him to make reckonings for the organs he employed to find the means to Thy forgiveness. Wert Thou to do that to him, it would take away everything for which he had labored and all wherein he had exerted himself as repayment for the smallest of Thy benefits and kindnesses, and he would remain hostage before Thee for Thy other favors. So how can he deserve something of Thy reward? Indeed, how? This, my God, is the state of him who obeys Thee and the path of him who worships Thee. But as for him who disobeys Thy command and goes against Thy prohibition, Thou dost not hurry him to Thy vengeance, so that he may seek to replace his state in disobeying Thee with the state of turning back to obey Thee, though he deserved from the time he set out to disobey Thee every punishment which Thou hast prepared for all Thy creatures. Through each chastisement which Thou hast kept back from him and each penalty of Thy vengeance and Thy punishment which Thou hast delayed from him, Thou hast refrained from Thy right and shown good pleasure in place of what Thou hast made obligatory. So who is more generous, my God, than Thou? and who is more wretched than he who perishes in spite of Thee? Indeed, who? Thou art too blessed to be described by any but beneficence and too generous for any but justice to be feared from The! There is no dread that Thou wilt be unjust toward him who disobeys Thee, nor any fear of Thy neglecting to reward him who satisfies Thee. 123 So bless Muhammad and his Household, give me my hope, and increase me in that of Thy guidance through which I may be successful in my work! Surely Thou art All-kind, Generous.
His Supplication (A. S) in Asking Pardon for Misdeeds to…
His Supplication (A. S) in Asking Pardon for Misdeeds to Allah's Servants and for Falling Short in their Rights and that his Neck be Set Free from the Fire O Allah, I ask pardon from Thee for the person wronged in my presence whom I did not help, the favor conferred upon me for which I returned no thanks, the evildoer who asked pardon from me and whom I did not pardon, the needy person who asked from me and whom I preferred not over myself, the right of a believer who possesses a right incumbent upon me which I did not fulfill, the fault of a believer which became evident to me and which I did not conceal, and every sin which presented itself to me and which I failed to avoid. I ask pardon, my God, for all of these and their likes, with an asking of pardon in remorse which may act as an admonisher against similar things ahead of me. So bless Muhammad and his Household and make my remorse for the slips into which I have fallen and my determination to refrain from the evil deeds which present themselves to me a repentance which will make Thy love for me obligatory, O lover of those who repen! 124
His Supplication (A. S) in Seeking Pardon and Mercy
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, break my passion for every unlawful thing, take away my craving for any sin, and bar me from harming any believer, male or female, and any Muslim, male or femal! O Allah, if any of Thy servants should harm me in what Thou hast forbidden or violate me in what Thou hast interdicted, and if he should pass into death with my complaint or I come to have a complaint against him while he is alive, forgive him what he did to me and pardon him that through which he turned his back on m! Inquire not from him about what he committed toward me and expose him not through what he earned by m! And Make my open-handedness in pardoning such servants and my contribution in charity toward them the purest charity of the charitable and the highest gift of those seeking nearness to The! Recompense me for my pardoning them with Thy pardon and for my supplicating for them with Thy mercy so that each one of us may gain felicity through Thy bounty and each may attain deliverance through Thy kindnes! O Allah, if there is a servant from among Thy servants whom an ill visits on my account, a harm touches from my direction, or a wrong overtakes through me or because of me, and should I fail to take care of his right or go before him [in death] with his complaint, bless Muhammad and his Household, satisfy him toward me through Thy wealth, and give him his full right from Thyself Then protect me from what Thy decision mandates and save me from what Thy justice decides, for my strength cannot bear Thy vengeance and my obedience cannot stand up to Thy displeasur! If Thou recompensest me with the right, Thou wilt destroy me, and if Thou dost not shield me in Thy mercy, Thou wilt lay me waste. O Allah, I ask Thee to grant, my God, that whose giving will not decrease Thee, and I ask Thee to carry that whose carrying will not weigh Thee down: My God, I ask Thee to give my soul, which Thou didst not create to keep Thyself from evil nor to find the way to profit. No, Thou brought it forth to demonstrate Thy power over its like and to provide an argument against its similar. I ask Thee to carry those of my sins whose carrying weighs me down and I seek help from Thee in that whose heaviness oppresses me. So bless Muhammad and his Household, give to me my soul in spite of its wrong-doing, 125 and appoint Thy mercy to carry my burde! How many evildoers Thy mercy has overtake! How many wrongdoers Thy pardon has embrace! So bless Muhammad and his Household and make me the model of him whom Thou hast aroused through Thy forbearance from the deadly infirmities of the offenders and saved through Thy giving success from the tangled plights of the sinners, so that I may rise up freed by Thy pardon from the bonds of Thy displeasure and released by Thy benefaction from the ties of Thy justic! Surely if Thou dost that, my God, Thou wilt do it to one who does not deny deserving Thy punishment or acquit himself from merit for Thy vengeance. Do that, my God, for one whose fear of Thee is greater than his craving from Thee, whose hopelessness of deliverance is firmer than his hope for salvatio! Not that his hopelessness is despair, nor that his expectation is deluded. No, rather his good deeds are few among his evil deeds and his arguments are frail in face of everything due from his acts. But Thou, my God, art worthy that the righteous not be deluded concerning Thee and the sinners not lose hope in Thee, for Thou art the All-mighty Lord who holds back His bounty from none and takes His full right from no one. High exalted is Thy mention above those mentione! Holy are Thy names beyond those describe! Spread is Thy favor among all creature! Thine is the praise for that, O Lord of the world!
His Supplication (A. S) when Someone's Death was Announced to him or when he Remembered death
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, spare us drawn out expectations and cut them short in us through sincerity of works, that we may not hope expectantly for completing an hour after an hour, closing a day after a day, joining a breath to a breath, or overtaking a step with a ste! Keep us safe from the delusions of expectations, make us secure from their evils, set up death before us in display. and let not our remembering of it come and g! Appoint for us from among the righteous works a work through which we will feel the homecoming to Thee as slow and crave a quick joining with Thee, so that death may be our intimate abode with which we are intimate, our familiar place toward which we yearn, and our next of kin whose coming we lov! When Thou bringest it to us and sendest it down upon us, make us happy with it as a visitor, comfort us with its arrival, make us not wretched through entertaining it, degrade us not through its visit, and appoint it one of the gates to Thy forgiveness and the keys to Thy merc! MAKE US DIE guided, not astray, obedient, not averse, repentant, not disobedient or persisting, O He who guarantees the repayment of the good-doers and seeks to set right the work of the corrup!
His Supplication (A. S) in Asking for Covering and Protection
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, spread for me the bed of Thy honor, bring me to the watering holes of Thy mercy, set me down in the midst of Thy Garden, stamp me not with rejection by Thee, deprive me not through disappointment by Thee, settle not accounts with me for what I have committed, make no reckoning with me for what I have earned, display not what I have hidden, expose not what I have covered over, weigh not my works on the scales of fairness, and make not my tidings known to the eyes of the crow! Conceal from them everything whose unfolding would shame me and roll up before them all which would join me to disgrace with Thee Ennoble my degree through Thy good pleasure, perfect my honor through Thy forgiveness, rank me among the companions of the right hand, direct me to the roads of the secure, place me in the throng of the triumphant, and through me let the sessions of the righteous thriv! 126 Amen, Lord of the world!
His Supplication (A. S) upon Completing a Reading of the QURAN
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O Allah, Thou hast helped me complete Thy Book, which Thou sent down as a light127 and appointed as a guardian over every book Thou hast sent down, 128 preferring it over every narrative which Thou hast recounted, 129 a separator, through which Thou hast separated Thy lawful from Thy unlawful, 130 a QURAN, through which Thou hast made plain the approaches to Thy ordinances, 131 a book, which Thou hast distinguished very distinctly for Thy servants, 132 a revelation, which Thou hast sent down, a sending down, upon Thy prophet Muhammad133 (Thy blessings be upon him and his Household). Thou appointed it a light through following which we may be guided from the shadows of error and ignorance, 134 a healing for him who turns ear toward hearing it with the understanding of attestation, 135 a just balance whose tongue does not incline away from truth, 136 a light of guidance whose proof is not extinguished before the witnesses, 137 and a guidepost of deliverance, so that he who repairs straight way to its prescription will not go astray and he who clings to its preservation's handhold will not be touched by the hands of disasters. O Allah, since Thou hast given us help to recite it and made smooth the roughness of our tongues through the beauty of its expression, PLACE US AMONG THOSE WHO observe it as it should be observed, serve Thee by adhering in submission to the firm text of its verses, and seek refuge in admitting both its ambiguous parts and the elucidations of its clear signs O Allah, Thou sent it down upon Thy prophet Muhammad (Allah bless him and his household) in summary form inspired him with the science of its wonders to complement it, made us the heirs of its knowledge as interpreters, 138 made us to surpass him who is ignorant of its knowledge, and gave us strength over it to raise us above those not able to carry it. O Allah, just as Thou hast appointed our hearts as its carriers and made known to us through Thy mercy its nobility and excellence, so also bless Muhammad, its preacher, and his Household, its guardians, and place us among those who confess that it has come from Thee, lest doubt about attesting to it assail us, or deviation from its straightforward path shake us O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and make us one of those who hold fast to its cord, seek haven from its ambiguities in its fortified stronghold, rest in the shadow of its wing, find guidance in the brightness of its morning, follow the shining of its disclosure, acquire light from its lamp, and beg not guidance from any other O Allah, just as through it Thou hast set up Muhammad as a guidepost to point to Thee and through his Household Thou hast made clear Thy good pleasure's roads to Thee, so also bless Muhammad and his Household and make the QURAN our mediation to the noblest stations of Thy honor, a ladder by which we may climb to the place of safety, a cause for our being repaid with deliverance at the Plain of Resurrection, and a means whereby we may reach the bliss of the House of Permanence O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, lessen for us through the QURAN the weight of heavy sins, give to us the excellent qualities of the pious, and make us follow the tracks of those who stood before Thee in the watches of the night and the ends of the day, 139 such that Thou purifiest us from every defilement through its purification and makest us to follow the tracks of those who have taken illumination from its light and whom expectation has not distracted from works, cutting them off through its delusions' deception! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and APPOINT THE QURAN FOR US an intimate in the shadows of nights and a guardian against the instigations of SATAN and confusing thoughts, for our feet an obstruction from passing to acts of disobedience, for our tongues a silencer without blight preventing a plunge into falsehood, for our limbs a restrainer from committing sins, and for the scrutiny of heedfulness rolled up in heedlessness an unroller, such that Thou attachest to our hearts the understanding of the QURAN's wonders and its restraining similitudes which immovable mountains in all their solidity were too weak to carr! 140 part 2 O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and through the QURAN make permanent the rightness of our outward selves, veil the ideas of confusing thoughts from the soundness of our innermost minds, wash away the dirt of our hearts and the ties of our heavy sins, gather our scattered affairs, quench the thirst of our burning heat in the standing place of the presentation to Thee, and clothe us in the robes of security on the Day of the Greatest Terror at our uprisin! 141 O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and through the QURAN redress our lack - our destitution in poverty - drive toward us the comforts of life and an abundance of plentiful provisions, turn aside blameworthy character traits and base moral qualities, and preserve us from the pit of unbelief and the motives for hypocrisy, such that the QURAN may be for us at the resurrection a leader to Thy good pleasure and Thy gardens, for us in this world a protector against Thy displeasure and transgressing Thy bounds, and for what is with Thee a witness by its declaring lawful the lawful and its declaring unlawful the unlawfu! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household and through the QURAN make easy for our souls at death the distress of the driving, 142 the effort of the moaning, and the succession of the rattling, (when souls reach the throats and it is said, 'Where is the enchanter? ) ;143 when the angel of death discloses himself to seize them from behind the veils of unseen things, letting loose at them from the bow of destinies the arrows of the terror of lonesome separation, and mixing for them from sudden death a cup poisoned to the taste; and when departure and release for the hereafter come close to us, works become collars around the necks, 144 and the graves become the haven until the appointed time of the Day of Encounte! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, make blessed for us the arrival at the house of decay and the drawn out residence between the layers of the earth, appoint the graves, after separation from this world, the best of our way stations, make roomy for us through Thy mercy the narrowness of our tombs, and disgrace us not among those present at the Resurrection through our ruinous sin! Through the QURAN have mercy upon the lowliness of our station at the standing place of presentation to Thee, make firm the slips of our feet during the shaking of the bridge across hell on the day of passage over it, illuminate the darkness of our graves before the Uprising, and deliver us from every distress on the Day of Resurrection and from the hardships of terrors on the Day of Disaste! Whiten our faces on the day when the faces of wrongdoers are blackened145 during the Day of Regret and Remorse, appoint love for us in the breasts of the faithful, and make not life for us troublesom! O Allah, bless Muhammad, Thy servant and Thy messenger, just as He delivered Thy message, executed Thy command, and counseled Thy servant! O Allah, on the Day of Resurrection make our Prophet (Thy blessings be upon him and his Household) the nearest of the prophets to Thee in seat, the ablest of them before Thee with intercession,
the greatest of them with Thee in measure, and the most eminent of them with Thee in ran! O Allah, bless Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad, ennoble his edifice, magnify his proof, make weighty his balance, accept his intercession, bring near his mediation, 146 whiten his face, complete his light, and raise his degre! Make us live according to his SUNNA, make us die in his creed, take us on his road, make us travel his path, place us among the people who obey him, muster us in his band, lead us to up his pool, 147 and give us to drink of his cu! And bless Muhammad and his Household, with a blessing through which Thou wilt take him to the most excellent of Thy good, Thy bounty, and Thy generosity for which he hope! Thou art Possessor of boundless mercy and generous bounty. O ALLAH, REPAY HIM FOR Thy messages which he delivered, Thy signs which he passed on, the good counsel he gave to Thy servants, and the struggle he undertook in Thy way, with the best Thou hast repaid any of Thy angels brought nigh and Thy prophets sent out and chose! And upon him and his Household, the good, the pure, be peace, Allah's mercy, and His blessing!
His Supplication (A. S) when Looked at the New Crescent Moon
O obedient creature, speedy and untiring, frequenter of the mansions of determination, 148 moving about in the sphere of governanc! I have faith in Him who lights up darknesses through thee, illuminates jet-black shadows by thee, appointed thee one of the signs of His kingdom and one of the marks of His authority, and humbled thee through increase and decrease, rising and setting, illumination and eclipse. In all of this thou art obedient to Him, prompt toward His will. Glory be to Hi! How wonderful is what He has arranged in thy situatio! How subtle what He has made for thy tas! He has made thee the key to a new month for a new situation. So I ask Allah, my Lord and thy Lord, my Creator and thy Creator, my Determiner and thy Determiner, my Form-giver and thy Form-giver, that He bless Muhammad and his Household and appoint thee a crescent of blessings not effaced by days and of purity not defiled by sins; a crescent of security from blights and of safety from evil deeds; a crescent of auspiciousness containing no misfortune, of prosperity accompanied by no adversity, of ease not mixed with difficulty, of good unstained by evil; a crescent of security and faith, favor and good-doing, safety and submissio! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, place us among the most satisfied of those over whom the crescent has risen, the purest of those who have looked upon it, the most fortunate of those who have worshiped Thee under it; give us the success during [the new month] to repent, preserve us within it from misdeeds, guard us therein from pursuing disobedience to Thee, allot to us within it thanksgiving for Thy favor, clothe us during it in the shields of well-being, and complete for us Thy kindness by perfecting therein obedience to The! Surely Thou art All-kind, Praiseworthy. And bless Muhammad and his Household, the good, the pure.
His Supplication (A. S) for the Coming of the Month of Ramaz''aan
Praise belongs to Allah who guided us to His praise and placed us among the people of praise, that we might be among the thankful for His beneficence and that He might recompense us for that with the recompense of the good-doer! And praise belongs to Allah who showed favor to us through His religion, singled us out for His creed, and directed us onto the roads of His beneficence, in order that through His kindness we might travel upon them to His good pleasure, a praise which He will accept from us and through which He will be pleased with u! And praise belongs to Allah who appointed among those roads His month, the month of RAMAZ''AAN, the month of fasting, the month of submission, the month of purity, the month of putting to test, the month of standing in prayer, (in what the QURAN was sent down as guidance to the people, and as signs of the Guidance and the Separato! ) 149 He clarified its excellence over other months by the many sacred things and well-known excellencies which He placed therein, for He made unlawful in it what He declared lawful in others to magnify it, He prohibited foods and drinks in it to honor it, and He appointed for it a clear time which He (majestic and mighty is He) allows not to be set forward and accepts not to be placed behind. Then He made one of its nights surpass the nights of a thousand months and named it the Night of Decree; (in it the angels and the Spirit descend by the leave of their Lord upon every command) , a peace150 constant in blessings until the rising of the dawn upon whomsoever He will of His servants according to the decision He has made firm. O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, inspire us with knowledge of its excellence, veneration of its inviolability, and caution against what Thou hast forbidden within it, and help us to fast in it by our restraining our limbs from acts of disobedience toward Thee and our employing them in that which pleases Thee, so that we lend not our ears to idle talk and hurry not with our eyes to diversion, we stretch not our hands toward the forbidden and stride not with our feet toward the prohibited, our bellies hold only what Thou hast made lawful and our tongues speak only what Thou hast exemplified, we undertake nothing but what brings close to Thy reward and pursue nothing but what protects from Thy punishmen! Then rid all of that from the false show of the false showers and the fame seeking of the fame seekers, lest we associate therein anything with Thee or seek therein any object of desire but The! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, in it make us attend to the appointed moments of the five prayers within the bounds Thou hast set, the obligations Thou hast decreed, the duties Thou hast assigned, and the times Thou hast specified; and in the prayers make us alight in the station of the keepers of their stations, the guardians of their pillars, their performers in their times, as Thy servant and Thy messenger set down in his SUNNA (Thy blessings be upon him and his Household) in their bowings, their prostrations, and all their excellent acts, with the most complete and ample ritual purity and the most evident and intense humilit! Give us success in this month to tighten our bonds of kin with devotion and gifts, attend to our neighbors with bestowal and giving, rid our possessions from claims, purify them through paying the alms, go back to him who has gone far from us, treat justly him who has wronged us, make peace with him who shows enmity toward us (except him who is regarded as an enemy in Thee and for Thee, for he is the enemy whom we will not befriend, the party whom we will not hold dear) , and seek nearness to Thee through blameless works which will purify us from sins and preserve us from renewing faults, so that none of Thy angels will bring for Thee the kinds of obedience and sorts of nearness-seeking unless they be less than what we brin! 151 O Allah, I ask Thee by the right of this month and by the right of him who worships Thee within it from its beginning to the time of its passing, whether angel Thou hast brought nigh to Thee, prophet Thou hast sent, or righteous servant Thou hast singled out, that Thou bless Muhammad and his Household, make us worthy of the generosity Thou hast promised make incumbent for us what Thou hast made incumbent for those who go to great lengths in obeying Thee, and place us in the ranks of those who deserve through Thy mercy the highest elevatio! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, TURN US ASIDE FROM deviation in professing Thy Unity, falling short in magnifying Thee, doubt in Thy religion, blindness toward Thy path, heedlessness of Thy inviolability, and being deceived by Thy enemy, the accursed SATA! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, and when in every night of this month's nights Thou hast necks which Thy pardon will release and Thy forgiveness disregard, place our necks among those necks and place us among the best folk and companions of this our mont! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, efface our sins along with the effacing of its crescent moon, and make us pass forth from the ill effects of our acts with the passing of its days, until it leaves us behind, while within it Thou hast purified us of offenses and rid us of evil deed! O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household, and should we go off to one side in this month, set us a right; should we swerve, point us straight; and should Thy enemy SATAN enwrap us, rescue us from hi! O Allah, fill this month with our worship of Thee, adorn its times with our obedience toward Thee, help us during its daytime with its fast, and in its night with prayer and pleading toward Thee,
humility toward Thee, and lowliness before Thee, so that its daytime may not bear witness against our heedlessness, nor its night against our neglec! O Allah, make us like this in the other months and days as long as Thou givest us life, and place us among Thy righteous servants, (those who shall inherit Paradise, therein dwelling forever) , 152 those who give what they give, while their hearts quake, that they are returning to their Lord) , 153 those (who vie in good works, outracing to the! ) 154 O Allah, bless Muhammad and his Household in every time, in all moments, and in every state, to the number that Thou hast blessed whomsoever Thou hast blessed and to multiples of all that, through multiples which none can count but The! Surely Thou art Accomplisher of what Thou desirest.