{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal146.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal146.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal146.htm","text":"(145)\nHis supplication for the twenty-second of\nthe month\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nO Allah! Make me of those who will present themselves before You as\nbelievers who performed good deeds, and whom You will accommodate\nin the Gardens of Eternity beneath them flow rivers. O Allah! Make me of\nthose who remember You and say: O our Lord! We believe, so forgive\nus and have mercy on us, verily You are the best of forgivers and best\nof the Merciful Ones. O Allah! Make me of those of Your bondsmen who\nwalk on the earth humbly and when the ignorant address them, they say\n'Salaam' (Peace on you), and those who pass the night in prostration in\nobeisance to their Lord and standing; and those who pray, O our Lord!\nTurn away from us the torment of the Hell, verily the torment of it is a\nlasting affliction. Verily it is an evil abode and evil station. And make me\nof those who when they spend are neither extravagant nor niggardly but\nare stationed between the two extremes. And those who call not with\nAllah any other gods and slay not a soul which Allah has forbidden to do\nit, save with a right to do so, and who commit not adultery, and\nwhosoever does this shall find a requital of sin. For him shall be\ndoubled, the torment on the Day of Resurrection; and forever shall they\nabide in it in ignominy. And of those who bear not witness to what is\nfalse and when they pass by what is vain, they pass in dignity. And of\nthose who when admonished by the signs of their Lord; fall not down the\ndeaf and blind. O Allah! Make me of those who say: O our Lord! grant\nus from our wives and our offspring coolness of the eyes and make us\nthe Imams for the pious ones. O Allah! Make me of those who shall be\nrewarded with high stations in Paradise as reward for their forbearance\nand they shall meet therein with honours and salutations. O Allah! Make\nme of those whom You will place by Your grace in an abode to abide\nforever, neither toil will touch them nor any fatigue will affect them. O\nAllah! take me to the gardens of bliss, to the gardens and fountains\nbeneath which flow rivers. O Allah! Take me to the gardens of bliss, to\ngardens and river in the true realm of the Sovereign Omnipotent Lord. O\nAllah! Protect me from the evil of myself, forgive me, my parents and the\npersons who entered my house believing in You, and the believers men\nand women, and increase not to the unjust ones in ought save perdition!\nO our Lord! Forgive me, my parents and the believers on the day of\nreckoning. O Allah! Forgive us and our brethren who have preceded us\nin faith and create not in our hearts any ill will towards those who\nbelieve. O our Lord! Verily You are Ever-kind, All merciful! O Allah! And\nmake me of those who fulfill their vows and fear the day the woe of\nwhich stretches far and wide. O Allah! And name me of those, while\nneeding it for themselves, who give away food out of love for Him to the\npoor, the orphan and the captive, say: we feed you only for Allah's sake\nwe intend not of you any recompense nor even thanks thereof. Verily we\ndread from our Lord, a stern day of distress. O Allah! save me from the\nevil of that day in the manner You save them and bestow on me\nfreshness and pleasure and give me recompense of garden to abide\nand silk to wear. O Allah! Make me recline therein on exalted couches,\nthere will neither be seen Sun, nor any intense cold will be felt. And thick\ntrees would shade over them and the clusters of fruits thereof shall be\nbowing down within easy reach, and shall pass round among them\nvessels of silver and goblets of crystal bright as glass made of silver;\nmeasure they to a well-measure. And they shall be supplied with the\ndrink therein of a cup tempered with Zanjabeel (ginger). O Allah! Supply\nme with a drink in the manner You provided them with a pure and\nwholesome drink, and cover me in the manner You provided them with\nthe robes of fine green silk and rich brocade, and make me fortunate as\nYou made them for tunate by accepting their endeavour with\nappreciation. O our Lord! Suffer not our hearts to perverse after You\nhave guided them aright, and grant us from Your mercy, for verily You\nand You alone are the Ever bestower. And make me of the forbearing,\nthe truthful, the devout and of those who spend in the way of Allah, and\nthose who seek forgiveness at dawn. O our Lord! Hold us not\nresponsible if we forget or make a mistake. O our Lord! Lay not on us a\nburden as You did lay on those before us, and lay not on us that which\nwe have not the strength to bear, pardon us, and forgive us, and have\nmercy on us; You are our Lord, so help us then against the people who\nare unbelievers. O Allah! I request You to end my life with deeds of\nvirtue and bestow upon me what I have beseeched You for, O the Doer\nof good deeds! Glory be to the Lord of Majesty, to Him alone is due the\ntrue prayer, and those to whom they pray besides Him give not any\nanswer to them but they are like one who stretches his two hands\ntowards water that it may reach his mouth but it will not reach; and the\nprayer of the infidels does nothing but leads far astray. And whatever is\nin the Heavens and the Earth, willingly or by constraint, does prostate in\nworship to Allah, so do their shadows at morning and evening. O Allah! I\nbeseech You to have compassion and mercy on me, O the\ncompassionate! O the Most Merciful. Do they not see what Allah has\ncreated that everything turns its shadow to the right and to the left,\nprostrating in obedience to Allah while they lie abased? And whatever is\nin the Heavens and whatever is in the Earth, and of the moving\ncreatures, and the angels too prostate in obedience to Allah and the\nAngels pride not. The Angels fear their Lord supreme above them and\ndo what they are commanded. O Allah! Make me of those who believe in\nthe Unseen, and establish the prayers, and pay the Zakat, and believe\nin that which You have sent down, and You have revealed the Quran in\nArabic with Truth; and say: believe in it or believe not; verily those who\nare already given the knowledge from before when it is recited to them,\nthey fall down on their faces prostrating in obedience, and they say:\nGlorious is our Lord, verily the promise of our Lord was a certainty to be\nfulfilled and they fall down on their face weeping and the listening to the\nQuran increases their humility. O Allah! Make me of those on whom You\nbestowed Your bounties from among the Prophets of the posterity of\nAdam; and of those who we carried with Nuh, and the posterity of\nIbrahim and Israel. O Allah! Make me of those on whom You bestowed\nYour bounties from among the Prophets, the truthfuls, the martyrs and\nthe righteous ones and excellent are these as companions! O Allah!\nMake me of those whom You guided and chose, and of those who when\nverses of Rahman are recited on them, fall down prostrating in\nobedience and weeping. O Allah! Make me of those who glorify You by\nnight and the day, they intermit not in their utterances of Your\nremembrance, and they get not tired in their devotional worship to You.\nThey glorify You and to You prostrate in obedience. O Allah! And make\nme of those who remember You standing and sitting, and reclining on\ntheir sides, and ponder seriously in the creation of the Heavens and\nEarth; saying: O our Lord! You have not created all this in vain. Glory be\nto You. Save us from the torment of the Hellfire!. O our Lord!\nWhomsoever You cause to enter the Hell, surely You have disgraced\nhim. There is not for the unjust any of the helper. O our Lord! We have\nindeed heard the voice of a crier, the Messenger, calling us to faith,\nsaying: \"Believe in Your Lord\" and we did believe. O our Lord! You\ntherefore forgive us our sins, and remove away from us our evil deeds,\nand cause us to die with the virtuous ones. O our Lord! And give us\nwhat You promised us through Your Messenger, and disgrace us not on\nthe day of resurrection; Verily, You break not Your promise. Do you not\nsee that Allah is He to Him prostrates whatsoever is in the Heavens, and\nwhatsoever is in the Earth, and the Sun, and the moon, and the stars,\nand the mountains, and the trees, and animals, and many of the people;\nand many there are to whom chastisement has became due and\nwhomsoever Allah abases, there is none to honour him, verily Allah does\nwhat He wills. It is He Who created the Heavens and the Earth and what\nis between them in six days, and then firmly established on the Throne\nHis authority; the Beneficent; You ask about Him from the one who is\naware. And when it is said to them \"prostrate you in obedience to\n'Rahman' (the Beneficent i.e. Allah)\", they say: shall we prostrate in\nobedience to what you bid us? and it only adds to their flight from the\ntruth. O Allah! O the Friend of the virtuous! I beseech You to end my life\nwith good deeds, and to accept my invocation, and grant me my request,\nand succour me in the affair that distresses me, O the Most Merciful!","title":"The Alawite Book: His supplication for the twenty-second of the month","type":"page"}