{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal144.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal144.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal144.htm","text":"(143)\nHis supplication for the twentieth of the\nmonth\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nO Allah! Bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny, shower Your\nMercy on Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny and favour Muhammad\n(s.a.w.a.) and his progeny with abundance in the manner You blessed,\nbestowed Mercy and favoured Ibrahim and his progeny. Verily You are\nPraiseworthy and Glorious. This invocation to You to bestow blessings\nupon Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny, should lead us to Your\npleasure and Paradise and protect us from Your wrath and Hell-fire. O\nAllah! Exalt our Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) to a praised position,\nwhich may be longed by the people of the ancient period and the people\nof the last period. O Allah! Bestow Your blessings on Muhammad\n(s.a.w.a.) and his Progeny and greet them with a worthy greeting.\nReserve for him the best of merits, best of leadership and favour him\nwith the most honoured position amongst the honoured people. O Allah!\nReserve for Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) a remembrance worthy of fame and\nreserve for him a cistern full of water. O Allah! Exalt his foundation and\nbless honour to his arguments and bless us with a drink with his cup,\nconvey us to his cistern and include us in his party that we may not be of\nthe disgraced, repentants, complainants, the innovators, the\ncovenant-breakers, the doubters, the deniers, the tried one, misguided\nand misguiding ones. We are pleased with the Heavenly reward and\nconvinced of Your chastisement. This is a special bounty from You.\nVerily You are Mighty and Bestower. O Allah! Bless Muhammad\n(s.a.w.a.) and his Progeny, the guiding Imam towards goodness and the\nleader of virtue. O the Most Merciful! Amplify his blessings on all Your\nbondsmen, in all lands, all animals and vegetables. O Allah! Bestow on\nMuhammad (s.a.w.a.) better merits than other merit, bounties better than\nall other bounties, circumstances easier than all other circumstances,\ngifts better than all other gifts, fortune better than other fortunes, till none\nof Your Creation becomes nearer to You, better in status near You,\nbetter intercessor, more honoured before You, more distinguished in\nstatus and intercession that Muhammad (s.a.w.a.). Grant him a life full of\nbliss, everlasting bounties perfect in merits, honoured leadership,\ntranquility and pleasure in discarding the egotistic tendencies. All this\nhonour granted by You to him should be matchless. O Allah! Grant\nMuhammad (s.a.w.a.) a Means and bestow upon him, loftiness,\nexcellence, eminence amongst the dominant people, love towards him\namongst the chosen ones, highest rank amongst the near ones to You.\nAnd we bear witness for him that he preached to the people as Your\nMessenger, admonished Your bondsmen, recited Your verses to them,\nand established Your law, explained minutely the details of Your\nbehests, and enforced Your Commands, fulfilled the Covenant with You,\nendeavoured his utmost in Your way and devoted sincerely to Your\nworship till death overtook him. And he commanded his people to obey\nonly You. He himself remained obedient to You and forbade the people\nfrom disobedience to You, abstaining himself from it. He loved Your\nfriend whom You desired to be love; He was an enemy to Your enemy to\nwhom You wanted him to be an enemy. O Lord of the Worlds! May Your\nBlessings be on him and on his progeny, the leader (Imam) of the pious,\nthe last of the Prophets, the best of the Messengers and Your\nMessenger. O Allah! Bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his Progeny\nduring the night when it enshrouds. O Allah! Bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.)\nand his Progeny during the day when it shines, and bless him in the\nHereafter and world and be pleased with him and increase this pleasure.\nO Allah! Cool the eyes of our Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) through his\nfollowers of the Ummat, his wives, his progeny and his companions and\nthrough us, the members of the Holy House, all his people (Ummat), our\nfamily members and one love for whom You have made obligatory on us\nliving or dead, cool his eyes. O Allah! Also cool our eyes by a glimpse of\nhim and then never cause a separation between us and him. O Allah!\nCarry us to his cistern and a drink, in his cup, include us in his group\nunder his banner and disappoint us not his companionship. Verily You\nare Powerful over all things. Peace, Blessings, Mercy and Favours from\nAllah be on him and on his pure and virtuous Progeny. O Allah! the Lord\nof death and life, Lord of Heavens and Earth, Lord of the Worlds, our\nLord and Lord of our forefathers, You are One Needless, begot You not,\nnor You are begotten and there is none like to You, You are the Master\nof the sovereigns through Your power. You have made the masters Your\nslaves through Your might. You are the Leader of the honoured people\nthrough Your generosity and You dispersed the nobles through Your\nmight, and razed the mountains through Your greatness, and reserved\nthe Pride and greatness exclusively for Yourself. The praise and\napplause became exclusively Yours. Glory and Honour are Your special\nattributes. None can reach the height of Your attributes and none can\nequal You in Your might. You are refuge for those seeking refuge with\nYou. You are the hiding place for those who want to hide, You are the\nplace of confidence for the believers, and the way for fulfillment of needs\nfor the seekers. I beseech You to have mercy on me and to keep me firm\nin my beliefs in the times of every misguiding calamity. You are the place\nfor me to lodge my complaints and a place of fulfillments of my wants.\nThere is none like the like of You and none to equal You in Your Might.\nYou are greater, more glorious, more generous, mightier, loftier, more\nsublime, nobler more honoured and liberal than Your whole creation.\nYou have praised Your own Self, O the Master of the Day of Judgment!\nO Allah! I beseech in the name which is for You, and You desire to be\ninvoked through that name, and I beseech You through every invocation\nwhich found acceptance with You, through which You were invoked by\nanyone of Your Creation from the people of the ancient epoch and the\npeople of the last epoch, to forgive all my sins past and present, minor\nand major, committed secretly and openly, known to me or unknown,\nwhich You have reckoned and preserved them and I have personally\nforgotten. O Allah! forgive me and be Merciful to me and turn to me\ncompassionately! Verily You turn compassionately towards Your\nbondsman, O the Most Merciful!","title":"The Alawite Book: His supplication for the twentieth of the month","type":"page"}