{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal024.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal024.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal024.htm","text":"(23)\nHis Supplication expressing devotion to\nAllah\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nO Allah, shower blessings on Muhammad and his Progeny (s.a.w.a.) Be\nmerciful when I pass away from the world or the people forget my\nmemories or I am counted among those who are forgotten. O Allah, I\nhave become old. My skin and bones have become weak and thin.\nPeople have acquired whatever I had and my youth has passed. Death\nhas come near and my life is getting over, my desires have gone and\nonly the results are remaining. O My Lord, have mercy on me when I will\npass away from the world and my parts of the body will be broken and\nscattered. O My Lord, my sins have made me quiet and I have become\ndumb. Now I don't have any excuses or arguments. Now I confess my\nsins and bad deeds. I am guilty and misled from the right path. Allah\nsend Your blessings on Muhammad and his Progeny (s.a.w.a.) and be\nmerciful and forgive my sins. O my Lord, though my deeds are indiscrete\nagainst my obeying but my expectations are more than hopes. O Allah,\nwhy should I be disappointed? Though I am supposed to gain liberation\nby Your compassion. O Allah do not disappoint me from Your gracious\npresumption and do not prove to be wrong my true expectations among\nYour candidates. O My Lord! My sin is great because You will ask for an\nexplanation but when I remember of my sins and see Your forgiveness I\nfeel that You would forgive. If Your severe chastisement calls me\ntowards hell because of my sins, my expectations of Your gracious\npresumption call me towards Paradise. If my errors threaten me and\ndisappoints me from Your favour and grace, Your kindness encourages\nmy faith. O my Lord! If my carelessness misled me, my Lord! Your\nhonourable bounties make me alert. O my Lord! My sense, my reforms,\nand my strength become helpless, but my faith has not vanished as\nYour gainful gratification is with me. If the days of my life have passed\nwithout efforts in Your way, at least and few years have passed with\nfaith. O Allah! I am a plaintiff in Your court as a needy and poor. The\ntrouble of my hardship has made me helpless. O Allah! You are\nhonourable! Make me succeed because I am one of Your petitioners. Do\nfavour on me and count me with those who benefit from You. O My\nLord! No one can turn out my poverty except You and no one can fulfill\nmy desires without Your reward. O My Lord! I am standing as a beggar\nat the door of Your generosity. I have abandoned asking others. O Allah!\nBestow Your blessings to the petitioner. As I am in one of the dangerous\npoints. I am involved in the trial of deeds and standard. I shall perish if\nYou do not help me. O My Lord! Have You created me like an\nunfortunate one to cry? Or ask my wants from the fortunate ones? O My\nLord! If You debarred from the Paradise to visit Muhammad Mustafa\n(s.a.w.a.) and prevent Angels of Darussalam (heaven) round about on\nme for the service and turn out my desires unsuccessful in the world.\nWhatever hopes I have from You is quite different from it. O Excellence!\nI swear of Your respect and glory, if You keep me bound and away from\nYour blessings and keep me aloof from the respectable persons I shall\nnot leave my hopes from You. I shall await for Your blessings. O Allah, I\nwould not be rightly guided without Your guidance. I cannot accept a\nfaith if You wouldn't guide me I would not call You if You would not have\ngiven the power to speak. I would not recognize You if You had not\nforgiven with friendly attitudes. I would not ask for shelter if You would\nnot mention about the wrath. O Allah, I carry out Your orders and it is\nmonotheism and if I disobey Your orders it is infidelity. So pardon both.\nO my Lord! I like Your obedience if I would be neglected or do mistake\npurposely, for that bestow me the heaven, though I am not a righteous\nperson for the heaven and save me from the hell because I am not fit for\nit. O my Lord! Though my sins have prevented me to go ahead from the\nvirtuous people but my faith has made me stand on the point of good\ndeeds. O My Lord! The heart, which You have filled by love, then how\ncan the flames of fire of hell overpower it? O Allah! How can You\ndisgrace in hellfire the soul satisfied with faith? O Allah, how can You\nburn in the blazing fire the tongue which recites Your name? O My Lord!\nAll disaster affected persons request You; All grief-stricken people seek\nprotection from You, O my Lord! The pious people heard about the great\nrewards they bring down their heads down in humility and ascetic\npeople heard about Your extant blessings and became contented. And\nthe misled people heard about Your generosity they turn back again.\nThe culprits heard about Your great extent of forgiveness, they became\nhopeful. The believers heard about Your reward of forgiveness they\nbecame seeker. O My Lord! The Group of unbelievers gathered and\nprayed loudly. These people are in the world and all people live by hope\nalone. They have showed the feelings of their mind. They have no fear\nof any obstacle and are restless and You are the centre of them that\nseekers are not dishonoured and insulted in Your court. O Allah! If I\nhave made a mistake to consider for myself that there is safety and\nhonour after the request, I would surely get the right path. O Allah!\nPerhaps this time I have become fortunate after getting Your help, and I\nhope You will forgive me. O Allah! If my effort of getting benefit left me\nbut Your gracefulness have not become separate. O My Lord! If I gave\ndecision for me in which I had hopes I fulfilled my duties to bring it near\nby Your grace and blessings. O My Lord! The lack of preparation for\nhereafter stopped me to be present in Your court, so I have sent my\nprecious feelings to You with faith and trust. O my Lord whenever I\nremember Your blessings, my face shines and when I remember of Your\nwrath I cry with fear. O my Lord! Do favour on this miserable person,\nwho is thirsty and whose veins of the neck bow down by tiredness. O my\nLord! I pray like one who does not expect from anyone except You. I\ndepend on You that my hopes cannot turn towards anyone except You.\nO My Lord! One who says seeing Your bounties that why should I return\nback and I am dependent on You to get my livelihood. O Allah! How can\nI reticent my tongue to request You. As I am very restless for the result\nof hereafter. O My Lord! You are aware of my expectation and You have\npromised to provide livelihood in the life. And You are aware that after\nmy death I am not contented of heaven. O Your personality is so great,\nthat You showed Your mercy by Your favour. Do not disappoint me of\nYour favour on the Day of Judgment when I would be badly in need of it.\nThe observation of the blessings of Generous and His Generosity are\ncompleted if I would not be ignored of my matters I would not take false\nstep and if I would consider of my transgression of limits I would not cry.\nO My Lord! Send Your blessing on Prophet, Muhammad Mustafa and\nhis progeny (s.a.w.a.) and erase the documents of taking false steps in\nthe course of time. For the sake of my running tears, forgive my great\nsins forgive them for the sake of my minor good deeds. O Allah if You\nare not merciful on anyone except the obedient people, where would\nthey go and complain for their mistakes? If You do not accept a\nsuggestion of anyone except the hard workers, then where would the\nwrongdoer go for their request? If You respect only the elegance people,\nthen what would the sinful people do? If no one can be successful\nexcept the pious people in hereafter, then to whom should we ask for\nhelp? O My Lord! One who he can pass from extremely narrow bridge\nwhich is the pathway of Paradise and whose good deeds are permitted,\nthen how will they cross the way who have not repented before death?\nO My Lord! You show Your favour only to those who have submitted\ntheir whole life in pious devotion, then who will be helpful to this sinful\nperson, who has not become happy though he tried hard. O Allah! If You\ndon't care to look at a monotheist because he is a sinner and You will\nput him in difficulty by Your curse? If You do not help us by Your\ngratitude, we would be mixed up along with those who associate with\nYou. O Allah! For the sake of Islam, make us righteous of Your\nendowments and forgive our sinful manners which make Your clean\nbestowals dirty, cleanse them. O My Lord! Take pity on our miserable\ncondition when we would be buried in the grave and our grave will be\npacked by bricks and we would be laid down by the right side in the\ngrave and the people leave us alone in the narrow resting place and our\ndeath will settle us in a strange place and we would be surrounded in\nthe crowd of the dead. Though they would be uninhabited. O my God,\nbe Merciful at that time, when we would be bare-footed and naked and\nthe dust of the grave covers our head and our eyes would be wide open\nwith the fear of the day of reckoning and our lips dried in thirst, and our\nstomach, hungry due to the long wait. And if on the Day of Judgment if\nnone can be successful except the pious people, we would be\nabsolutely naked before the people. Our backs shall be heavy with our\nload. We shall be involved in the calamities created by our kith and kin.\nYou do not add to my problems by turning away Your kind attention from\nus, and by keeping us away from Your Mercy that we have visualized. O\nmy Lord! These eyes are not attentive to their tears for nothing, nor this\nsinner is weeping aimlessly, nor it has wept like an emotional woman for\nnothing. The reason is that he has already committed sins intentionally\nand unintentionally. Now the consequences of his examination are\ncalling him. And O, the Owner of Might, You are capable of removing his\nmisery. O my God! If we sinners are weeping because of our\nshortcomings in paying homage to You, and if we are failures, we are\nweeping due to the lack of Mercy that we beg from You. O my God!\nIncrease the eloquence of the sweetness of my expression so that it may\nguide our heart towards piety in the light of the matters it understands. O\nmy God! You have commanded to do good and Yourself are the best of\nthe good-doers and You have issued the orders to ask You for our\nneeds while You are the best of those who are asked. O my God! How\ncan despair prevent us from asking that we are accustomed to beg.\nMoreover, we have reposed high hopes in You. O Allah! When the\nstorm of terror shakes the leaves of our fear, those trees get uprooted,\nand when the breeze of our attachments touch the branches of our\ndesires, its fruits ripen due to the glad tidings. When Your epithet, \u201cthe\nseverest of those who requite\u201d comes on our lips, we feel extreme\nsorrow and remorse and when we recite: O The Concealer of Faults,\nThe Compassionate, we become very happy. Now we are in the middle\nof fear and hope. Fear does not make us satisfied and Your divine\nfavour does not disappoint us. O Allah! Our efforts fail to cast off from\nYour favour and keep me safe from Your wrath. O Allah! You always\nsend Your blessing as a gift and has made me respectable in the world.\nAnd You always helped and showed Your elegant attitude to the\nnotorious and disgraceful people. The past centuries, promises of past\ntimes and termination in the course of time in remaining nights. O Allah!\nOur life is depending on whatever is necessary in life, increase them\nthrough the medium of Your blessings. How could our heart be happy by\nthe worldly desires? How could our dealings be formal in worldly\ntrouble? How could our happiness be ruined and how could our deceits\nprevent from absurdity and useless talk. Though our graves inform us\nthat death is coming near. O My Lord! How could we find the way when\npits are ready for us to make us sleep and the strings of treacherous\nworld has been distributed by the hands of death and made us helpless\nand made us drink bitter drought of water. Our soul has been informed\nus that the life would be terminated. I wish that I would not distant about\nthe worldly comforts and would not take a false step O My Lord! I pray to\nYou earnestly to help me to pass across the bridge and request You to\nsave us from the false desires and request You to raise the curtains of\nconfusion from the heart and save me from the wrong and uncivilized\nintentions of the mind. O My Lord! Do the houses have strength to save\nfrom the attack of troubles? When one of the arrows of death falls in\nevery house. O Allah! If our heart would not fear while shifting from the\nworld or if You would not keep us aloof from the virtuous people there. O\nAllah! If You keep us near to You, then separation of our brothers and\nother relatives will not harm us. O Allah the Bestower! Veins of our\nthroat and tongues would not dry up if unnatural offence would not turn\nround and round like birds. O Allah! I was an obedient person and You\nhad created me to obey Your commands. You cursed me and kept me\naway from Your bounties because of my bad deeds. And if You show\nmercy on me, whenever I was obedient to You but You found me guilty\nand made me free. O My Lord! There is no way to be saved from evils\nwithout Your protection. There is no source to reach up to the good\ndeeds except Your will. Now after Your previous will I shall try to take\nadvantage of my deeds so I can protect myself from sins and for that if\nYou would not help me. O My Lord! I did not know anything but when\nYou gave the guidance for the heaven and after knowing about that my\nheart turned towards it. Is that so that after turning towards the good\ndeeds, You would disappoint me? Though You do what You like and it\nis praiseworthy. O Allah! The Lord of Majesty and Generosity! If I do not\ndeserve Your blessing then do a favour. It is Your capability because the\nGenerous never blesses only the deserving ones. O my God! If I am not\ndeserving of Your mercies that I hope from You but You are the One to\nbestow favours upon the sinful ones. O Allah! If my sins frighten me, do\nfavour on me due to Your great personality and my hopes turn out to be\npleasant. O My Lord! My request is not like that of common beggars\nbecause if they are unsuccessful they give up begging and I do not feel\nashamed to ask for my request at any cost. O my Lord! Be pleased with\nme. Sometimes the master forgives his slave for his error. O my Lord!\nHow can I say, I am a great sinner and how can I be disappointed from\nYou because You are generous and Merciful. O my Lord! My life and my\nsoul are present before You and You cast a shadow of beauty on it. As\nYou did what is suitable for You and hid me in Your rewards. If my death\nis near and if my deeds do not allow me to come to You then I have also\ndecided to confess my sin again and again in Your court for forgiveness.\nO My Lord! You are the Forgiving. Who can be the other Forgiving\nexcept You and if You would punish me then who is the judge higher\nthan You? O my Lord! If I show high-handedness for the defence of my\nsoul and then also Your given limits continuing as before and even then\nif I do not hang my neck down then rebuke on my soul. O My Lord! You\nshowed Your mercy on my whole life so do not discontinue Your\nkindness after my death. O Allah! Why should I be disappointed from\nYour favour after death? As You showed Your good favour in my life. O\nmy Lord! My sins frightened me but my love towards You gave me\nprotection. Help me as You are capable and take care of my ignorance.\nO Allah! Nothing is concealed for Your great personality. And send Your\nblessing on Your Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny. And\nforgive my sins, which are hidden from the sight of common people. O\nMy Lord! You concealed my sins from me in the world and did not\ndisclose them. As I deserve that my sins should not be disclosed in the\nhereafter. As You showed Your favour and concealed my sins before\nthe Muslims. Do not disgrace me on the day of resurrection before the\nworld. My hopes increased seeing Your generosity and You accepted\nmy deeds. Make me cheerful when my death is near. O my Lord! My\nrepentance is like that of a sinner, whose excuses are accepted. O\nAllah, The Great! The accused apologize and do not disgrace me for my\nonly one wish for which I passed my whole life and that is Your\nforgiveness. O my Lord! If You would be desirous for my insult then You\nwould not give the guidance or if You would like my infamy, You would\nnot conceal my faults and for that You showed me the right path to get\ngood benefit and whatever my sin You have concealed, keep it firm. O\nmy Lord! In Your trial, I praise You for Your expected trial and mentioned\nYour elegance. This is the completion of Your forgiveness O Allah! If I\nwould not fear of my sin then how would I be saved from Your wrath and\nwould become a petitioner of Your reward? Your Personality is best from\nall virtuous people. You excuse the sinners and fulfill the desires of\nneedy people who beg for Your mercy. O Allah, I hope, You will forgive\nme then let my desires succeed. I have heard about Your forgiveness so\nnow fulfill all my desires and forgive my sins, which I have committed. O\nAllah! My virtues lay down before You and bad deeds are laid between\nforgive and forgiveness. I hope You will not cast off my good and bad\ndeeds from Your favour. O Allah! My faith accepted Your oneness and I\nkeep my tongue in utterance Your praise and the Holy Quran showed\nme the initiative of Your mercy then how can it be possible that I shall\nlose hope about Your promises? O Allah! Your coherent obligations\nguided me nicely and I became satisfied then how can You make a man\nunfortunate and villainous? O my Lord! If You have become very angry\nbut I hope, Your kind attitude would save me from Your wrath O Allah! If\nmy sins brought me forth for punishment my hopes also has come\nforward for reward. O Allah! Forgive me and bless me and save me from\nYour wrath. Your personality is such that none can expect anything\nexcept Your Grace and no fear of anything except Your final judgment.\nO Allah! Send blessing on Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny and\ndo a favour on me and do not investigate more against me due to\njudgment. O My Lord! You have created my body and its parts and I pay\nhomage with it and sometimes disobey orders and sometimes make You\nunhappy and sometimes happy and You granted me passion in my heart\nand chose me for this house which is full of disasters and then You said\nthat I am prevented due to my sin. Now I beseech You for protection and\nsupport and want to protect myself from Your wrath and beseech good\nguidance for Your willingness. O my Lord! I ask You only as my question\nis not concealed from You. O my Lord! I beg You like a beggar and not\nfeel ashamed to beg because You are my master and I beseech You as\none who is agreed against his argument. If I knew of something more\nimportant the confession of sin, I would pray. O Allah, forgive my sin.\nAfter the confession do not make me fail. And his wishes have opened\ntheir mouths for Your Mercy, while they are not in need of kindness. O\nour Deity! Grant to them what they beg of You and bestow on them what\nthey ask. Because You are the most merciful of those who are kind upon\nthe ones that repose hopes in You. O Allah! I have committed such\nterrible sins that You are well aware of and the injustices I have\ncommitted upon myself are well known to You. Then You consider me\nas a slave emancipated by You or a disobedient one forgiven by You. O\nmy Deity! O my Allah! I am thinking as if I have been made to lie down in\nmy grave. The participants of my funeral have returned home after\nburying me. The travelers have already mourned my condition and the\nkind relatives have stopped weeping on me. And the friends have\nalready finished reciting the Talqeen from besides the grave. And they\nwere seeing this grave at that time. They are no more thoughtful of his\nneeds. Neither did they witness his torture. The failure of his efforts\nwere concealed by the soil (of the grave). Then You said - O My Angels!\nA man has arrived and his friends and relatives have gone away. He is\nall-alone and his friends and relatives have showed high-handedness.\nNow he has come to Me. He is lying without his inheritance in the grave.\nHe was calling Me in the world. Now it is My duty to look after him. Now\nAllah will show His hospitality and He will be more kind than my friends\nand relatives. O Allah! If You stopped Your atmosphere between the\nearth and sky and split the stars or take me down deep under the\nground due to my sins, I shall not give up my hopes for Your rewards.\nMy disappointment cannot prevent me from seeking Your pleasure.\nO Allah! I have called You politely as per Your guidance. Now do not\nsay it was Your promise. This was Your blessing that shows me the nice\nmanners for supplication. Now it is the only way, fulfill my prayer and\nmake me righteous and able for Your praise. O my Lord! I swear by Your\nhonour and respect, my affection is vigilant in my heart for You and it is\nsweet. And Your beloved believers do not believe anyhow that You\nwould hate them. O my Lord I am waiting for Your forgiveness like an\naccused and I am not disappointed from Your blessings and good\ndeeds. O my Lord! Do not be angry with me. I have no courage to\ntolerate Your anger. And do not be displeased with me because I cannot\ntolerate it. O my Lord! Did my mother brought me up for hell? I wish if\nshe had not brought me up. Had she gave birth to me for wretchedness?\nI wish she had not. O Allah! When I remember about my false step, tears\nflow from my eyes and why should I not cry? Though I don't know my\nlast destination and I don't know when and where my journey would end.\nI even know my soul deceives me and my days deceive me and death is\nhovering on my head and staring at me from near. The caller's cry\npoisoned my ears. O Allah! I devoted my life to One Who bestows me\ngood health. I hope You will not awake me naked among the dead. I\nhope You showed Your kindness in my life and recommend the same\nkindness at the time of my death. O the companion of every traveler,\nhave pity on my journey of the grave. O the companion of every person\nin solitude, have mercy on my solitude in the grave. O one Who is aware\nof every secret, O one Who wards off every calamity and trouble, how\nwould You deal with me in the habitations of the grave? And how much\nesteem You\u2019d have for me in the land of horror and calamities? You\nwere very kind to me in my worldly life. O one Who showers the best of\nthe bounties among all those who bestow bounties and one Who is the\nbest of those Who do favours. O Allah! Your favours upon me are so\nnumerous that I cannot count them and I am unable repay all of them by\nthanking for them. Praise for that You bestowed on me and thankfulness\nupon the way You have tested me. O one Who is better than the call of\neveryone who calls You and O, one Who is better than the hope of all\nthose who hope. I have come to beg to You by the right of Islam and the\nsanctity of the Quran. And by the Sadaqah of the right of Muhammad\n(s.a.w.a.) and Aale Muhammad (s.a.w.a.), I seek nearness to Your\nrealm. Bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and the Progeny of Muhammad\n(s.a.w.a.) and grant Your attention to my duty of Your obedience. By\nwhich I harbour hopes in You. Please accept my entreaty O the most\nmerciful of all the mercifuls.","title":"The Alawite Book: His Supplication expressing devotion to...","type":"page"}