{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal075.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal075.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal075.htm","text":"(74)\nHis supplication before the Battle of Jamal\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nO Allah! I praise You as only You are worth the praise, as You have\nobliged me so much that all my attention is only to You. Accept my\nthanks as Your pardon is the best and Your test is since a long time, still\nthe thankfulness is a protection of my share of bounties, and not for\nreforming myself. O Allah! You have obliged me by granting insight of\nYour religion and recognition of Yourself and have granted Your\ncomplete protection in my affairs. Have mercy on me and avert the\ndifficulties from me. Keep away Your fearful judgments from me. I don't\nremember anything except Your obligation; I have not seen anything\nexcept Your grace. O Allah! So many of the difficulties have been\nwarded off from me by You and was turned towards my enemies and\nthey were involved in it. And so many of the bounties which were with\nmy enemies, which You turned away from them and bestowed upon me.\nAnd I am also not aware of all Your obligations on me. O Allah! You are\nthe one Who hears my prayers at the time of restlessness, You are the\none Who watches me at the times of sorrow, You are the one to avenge\nmy enemies. Neither I have ever found You away from me nor at the\ntimes of prayer You are away and I always find You close to me and not\nonly when I call You. O Allah! I find only Your obligation worth praising\nand only Your excellent tests is present with me, all Your actions are\ngood. My tongue, my intellect, all my parts and all that of mine which is\non the earth is full of praise for You. O Allah! For the sake of Your light\nwhich You have created by Your Honour, and by the sake of Your\nHonour which You have created by Your will, and by the sake of Your\nname which is high, that bestow upon me the love to thank You\nobligatorily. O Lord! Had You not helped me from all those things, which\nwere prohibited for me, and if the fear of the hereafter were not instilled\nin me I would have been destroyed. O Allah the provisions of this world\ncalled me, the greed of women and children which I accepted hastily and\ntilted towards it, and when the provisions of the hereafter invited me\ntowards piety and goodness I stumbled but did not go that hastily as I\nhad gone for the things which be destroyed and perish very soon. O\nAllah! You scared me, inculcated love in me, explained me with proofs\nstill I was not scared to the extent as it was desired and now I fear that I\nam not unmindful in obedience to Your commands and that I might have\nbeen deficient regarding Your established proofs. O Allah! Reserve all\nmy endeavours for Your strength and put Your fear in my heart. And\nconvert my carelessness, laziness, negligence and all personal fears\ninto Your fear, and obedience and good deeds by Your grace. O the\npossessor of Honour and Majesty, make my shield against sins stronger\nand multiply my good deeds as You can increase whatever You wish. O\nAllah! Increase my status in the Heavens, and I seek refuge from all that\nis eaten and drunk, but is prohibited by You, and I wish to be away from\nthe fear of all the known and unknown things, and I seek to be away\nfrom the evil of all the things whether apparent or hidden. O Allah grant\nme protection from what the others have done in ignorance instead of\nknowledge, haste instead of tolerance, restlessness instead of patience\ndeviation instead of guidance and polytheism instead of faith. O my\nNourisher! Have mercy on me and oblige me because You befriend the\ndoers of good and never turn down their goodness and praise is for the\nLord of the worlds.","title":"The Alawite Book: His supplication before the Battle of Jamal","type":"page"}