{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal074.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal074.htm","text":"(73)\nHis supplication in the Battlefield of Siffin\nbefore lifting the Holy Quran on spears and\nwhen the people did not pay any heed Ali\n(a.s.) recited thus:\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nO Allah! I seek forgiveness from the difficulties of examination and from\nthe evil designs of the enemy. O Allah! Forgive my sins make my actions\npure, ward away my sins because in front of those whom You have\nbestowed power, I am totally helpless, grant me such a tolerance that\nthe doors of ignorance are closed, bestow on me that knowledge by\nwhich ignorance goes away. Give me that certainty by which the doubts\nare dispelled. Grant me that understanding which brings me out from the\ncorruptions. Bestow on me that light by which I can bring understanding\nin people and can seek guidance from darkness. O Allah! Reform my\nears, eyes, intellect, heart, such reforms which remain; and which also\nreforms the other parts of the body. I ask You for ease at the time of\ndeath and forgiveness at the time of accounting. O Allah! I love all those\nactions which are dear to You and accepted by You, always involve me\nin such deeds and honour me by those deeds which are close to You,\nand grant me sincerity and steadiness in those deeds, after which I\ncontinue doing those deeds throughout my life and whatever You have\nbestowed upon Your pious creatures make it as a support for me, make\nit in such a way that I never sell it at any cost throughout my life, neither I\nexchange it for something, in ease or difficulties, either forgetfully or\nintentionally so much so that I die in this state. Grant me a great\nmartyrdom in Your way; in helping You and Your Prophet. I can buy the\nlife of the hereafter with the life of the world and gain Your Pleasure. O\nAllah! I ask from You such a heart which is tranquil and steadfast, safe\nand praying, which can understand recognition and adhere to it, does\nnot love evil and be away from it, neither it is a transgressor, nor\nwretched nor uncertain. O the one to spread mercy. O the one Whose\nmercy precedes His Wrath. I request You to let my life proceed towards\ngoodness and let death be a means of clearing all the defects. Complete\nmy deeds on martyrdom. O my supporter in difficulties, O my Lord at\ntimes of need and O the Lord of my bounties. Make me thankful on the\nbounties, patience on calamities, agreeable on destiny, trust on the\ncovenants, grace for protecting the laws of Islam, piety, reliance on\nYourself, relation with You, attachment with Your book, insight of Your\nright, strength for Your worship, delight in Your remembrance, must be\ndestined for me till the time You keep me on Your earth and when death\ncomes make my death as being killed in Your way, and that too by the\nworst of Your creatures, and my past life like those who while living\nreceived sustenance from Your kingdom. O Allah! Bestow light in my\neyes, certainty in my heart, and fear in my soul and Your remembrance\non my tongue. O Allah! Grant me that pleasure which Your beloved ones\nhad when they were seeking from You and I fear Your wrath as Your\nbeloved ones used to fear You. O Allah! Bestow on me Your Happiness\nand obedience, to such an extent that except You, I don't fear any of\nYour creature and leave Your obedience. O Allah! When You grant me\nbounties also bestow on me the power to thank You by which I\nremember You and those bounties which are away from me. You find\nme needing it. Grant me reward and patience on it. O Allah! Dispel\npoverty from me in the world and let me not be unmindful of Your\nworship, don't let me be away from Your remembrance, and do not divert\nmy attention from the rewards which are with You. O Allah! I seek refuge\nfrom the sorrow, helplessness, laziness, cowardice, miserliness, and\nbad behaviour, excess of debts, overpowering and enmity of the people,\ntrouble of days, evil deeds of the inhabitants of the earth, and the\nintolerable things. And I seek Your safety from all those things which\nbecome a barrier between You and me or which makes me away from\nYou or divert my attention from You. Or minimize my share from You and\nI seek Your Protection from my sins, my oppression upon myself,\nfollowing my soul may prevent Your Mercy and Promises from me. O\nAllah! I seek refuge from an evil companion whose heart even is inclined\nto me, and eyes set on me, his ears are hearing me, but when he sees\ngoodness he conceals it from me and if he sees evil he reveals it to me,\nand I seek refuge from this greed which brings us closer to another\ngreed. I seek refuge from the deviation, which destroys me and that\ncorruption which ruins me, and from that sin after which there is no\nrepentance and from the destruction of progeny and wealth, which is\nvisible at the time of death, and I seek Your protection from Polytheism,\ndisobedience, prejudice and anger. And I seek refuge from those things\nthat makes me rebellious and from the poverty which destroys me and\nfrom the desires which annihilate me and those deeds which debase\nme, and from friend who deviate me. O Allah! I seek Your protection\nfrom the day whose beginning is fear and end is restlessness in which\nfaces turn black and heart becomes dry and of those sins that seize the\ngood deeds which is not forgiven by You and of the sins which prevents\ngood deeds and with the hope which refuses good deeds, and from that\nlife which refrains from good death, I seek refuge from ignorance and\nfrom vain talks, foul language and evil deeds, from that diseases which\nkeeps me busy, from that health which makes me forget You, I seek\nrefuge from fatigue and tiredness, from sorrow and hardships, from\ndeviation and cheating, from disgrace, poverty and ego, from doing\nactions for showing off, from shame and sorrow, from revolt and\nmischief, from all calamities and evil, from the calamities of this world\nand the hereafter. With Your help I wish to be saved from all absurdities,\nfrom the whispering of the hearts and from all those words and actions\nwhich You do not approve of and by Your help I wish to be saved from\nthe Jinns, people, cheating, calamities of the day and night, from the evil\nof Jinns and the evil eyes of the people. O Allah! I seek protection from\nYou, save me from the evil of the heart, evil of the tongue, evil of the\nears, and mischief of the eyes. I supplicate to You, save me from the\nstomach which never fills, and from the heart which is not afraid of You\nand from the supplication which is not worth hearing and from the prayer\nwhich is rejected. O Allah! Do not put me in the smallest chastisement\nand do not let me stray into misguidance. O Allah! Save me from Your\nseverest control, High power, Honour and Kingdom and from all the\nharms of Your entire creation.","title":"The Alawite Book: His supplication in the Battlefield of ...","type":"page"}