{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal053.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal053.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal053.htm","text":"(52)\nHis supplication seeking refuge from Allah\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nO Allah! You are my Lord and I am Your slave, I have brought faith in\nYou. I am firm on Your covenant with sincerity, and after pledging my\ncovenant to You I seek forgiveness for my sins. I seek forgiveness for\nthose sins, which no one can forgive except You. My helplessness\nwishes to take refuge in Your Majesty and Honour. My poverty seeks\nrefuge in Your self-sufficiency. My ignorance seeks refuge in Your\ntolerance and my laxity seeks refuge in Your Power. My fear seeks\nrefuge in Your safety. My illness seeks refuge in Your cure. My death\nseeks refuge in Your judgment. My weakness seeks refuge in Your\nstrength. My mortality seeks refuge in Your immortality. My extinction\nseeks refuge in Your eternality. O Allah! From Whom the darkness of\nthe night is not concealed, nor the big sky is covered, neither the\ncreatures living in the sea nor those living in the bottom of sea are\nhidden from You. O the one to nullify the strength and the one to waive\nthe troubles. O the One to send bounties from the skies. I request You,\nO the one to open the ways, O the one Who rewards, O the possessor\nof the keys of the treasures. I request You to bless Muhammad\n(s.a.w.a.) and his pure progeny. Grant me the goodness of the world\nand the Hereafter . Save me from the temptation, which has\noverpowered me and which can destroy me. Don't entrust me to\nsomebody else even for a second, as he will be helpless of me, don't\nmake me away from Heaven. Have mercy on me, let me die as a\nMuslim, and gather me together with pious people. Grant me pure\nsustenance and save me from forbidden. O the most merciful of all the\nmercifuls. O Allah! You have created the hearts and the minds for Your\nrecognition, the heart beats due to Your fear, and the heart is restless\ndue to Your love. The mind is weak for praising You and words are\nunable to describe Your wonders, the tongues are dumb to describe\nYour Praise and even if it praises You, understanding Your attributes\nsilences it, and now it circles around it in amazement which You have\nestablished, as it is impossible for it to exceed Your limits, it is possible\nfor him to praise in the limits of the boundary made by You and the\ntongues are the bounties bestowed by You. O Allah! You have a right\nupon all Your creatures whom You have created and they should not act\nniggardly and if this thankfulness is lesser than Your bounties they\npraise according to their strength and power, and one who is lacking in\nthis depends on Your hopes, and those who fear You are accepting\nYour lordship. The seekers come near to You with hopes. Those who\noblige are searching Your grace and all of them are busy in the shade of\nYour Mercy and Forgiveness. Due to Your fear, degradation has\nweakened them, they confess of not being thankful to Your bounties.\nThose who were disobedient and did not follow Your commands their\ndeeds did not stop You from increasing their cattle, give them their full\nmeasure and take sorrow away from them, and make them afraid of\nYour chastisement. Or he who does goodness You increase his reward.\nYou have made thankfulness incumbent on those who obey You and\nalso made it obligatory on the evildoers. You have promised these doers\nof good that Your obligation on them will be greater than their obligation.\nYou are pure, You give reward for those things which begin and end in\nYour name. I praise You to such an extent that it achieves Your\nhappiness and like a person who by praising You reaches in Your\npresence and by it becomes eligible for Your bounties. My Lord there is\na special support and specific bounties for Your beloved people, so\nbless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny and grace us with Your\nspecial support and specific bounties which are present at the time of\ncalamities, a protector at the time of loses, and deliverance from\ndestruction and an excellent guide to show the right path. O the one who\nsaves us from calamities, and the one to multiply good deeds. O the one\nto increase the destinies and the one to perfect the bounties, O the one\nto conceal the defects and to cover one's faults, grant me the grace and\nto seek more forgiveness for the sins because You are too near and the\none to accept our supplications. And send blessings on Your appointed\nand beloved creation and give excessive bounties to the recipient of\nYour revelations. Send on them Your best of the bounties as they have\npropagated Your message, explained Your laws clearly, called the\npeople to Your path, and with living examples have established proof of\nYour existence till the time they acquired certainty. O Allah bless\nMuhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny and also send mercy on the pure\nprogeny and reserve for them those bounties which You have selected\nfor Your special Prophets and have bestowed on them. O the most\nmerciful of all the mercifuls. O Allah! It is only Your wishes, that none\ncan restrain from fulfillment, the destructions have accepted defeat in\ncausing hurdles in completion of Your wishes. Thus by Your wishes and\nby Your grace bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny and make\nthese wishes reach completion as You are the possessor of vast Mercy\nand the forgiver, the acceptor of supplications and the hearer of the\ncalls.","title":"The Alawite Book: His supplication seeking refuge from Allah","type":"page"}