{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/sal/sal152.htm","path":"isl/sal/sal152.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/sal/sal152.htm","text":"(151)\nHis supplication for the twenty-eighth of the\nmonth\nIn the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful\nO Allah! I seek refuge with You against everything other than You. O\nAllah! You are the Greatest. O Allah! Deprive me not of the goodness of\nwhat You have bestowed and make me not suffer any evil what You\nhave not bestowed. O Allah! I beseech You to bestow upon me family,\nwealth, faith, trust, and various children better than bestowed upon Your\nbondsmen. O Allah! I am dependent on You, and am afraid of You, and\nseek protection from You. O Allah! Protect me against any change in my\nname, and disfigure not my body, involve me not in trials, and impose\nnot on me calamities after calamities. O Allah! I seek refuge with You\nfrom riches leading me to any revolt against You, from egoistic\ninclinations of any ruining and from disgracing performances. O Allah!\nForgive my sins, accept my penitence, make me manifest my arguments,\nconceal my defects and make Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his chosen\nProgeny my Masters and solicitors of Your Mercy for me. O Allah! I seek\nrefuge with You against any utterance leading me to disobedience to\nYou and to seek pleasure of other than You. O Allah! I seek refuge with\nYou that any person other than me should become more auspicious in\nrespect of what You have bestowed on me. O Allah! I seek refuge with\nYou from the evil of Satan, from the evil of those in power and from the\norders promulgated by the writing of pens. And I beseech You for\nvirtuous deeds, life full of bliss and sustenance flowing abundantly. O\nAllah! You record the sin, and are well aware of our secrets, and\nintervene between the hearts, and the hearts are turned towards You,\nand our secrets are manifest before You. Verily, Your command, when\nYou intend anything, is only that You say it \"Be\" and there it is. O Allah! I\nbeseech You in the name of Your Mercy to infuse the spirit of obedience\nto You, in every part of my body that I may act obediently, and then\nnever take this spirit away. O Allah! I beseech You in the name of Your\nMercy to remove disobedience to You from all the parts of my body that\nmay abstain from disobedience to You and let it not ever return to me. O\nAllah! You are a symbol of kindness, and You like forgiveness, so\nplease forgive me. O Allah! You were and nothing was there to be\nperceived and You will survive everything. You are Ever-living,\nSelf-subsisting. The eyes sleep and the stars set down but neither\nslumber nor sleep seizes You. Bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his\nProgeny, and dispel my grief and anxiety, and enable me to come out\nfrom every affair that grieves me, and make me firm in the belief in\nmaking You my centre of hopes so as to dissuade me from entertaining\nany hope from Your creation, and that I trust none save You. O Allah!\nDrive me neither to a ruining place nor bring me nearer to it nor include\nme among the unmindful persons. O Allah! I seek refuge with You\nagainst my misguiding Your bondsmen and against entertaining any\nuncertainty about Your accepting any invocation. O Allah! Your Book\nhas recorded my sins and Your knowledge has encompassed them and\nYour awareness has gone to the detail of it. I am miscreant sinner and\nYou are Forgiving, Benevolent Lord. I am ready of offer my penitence to\nYou. I confess what has passed. Kindly overlook what has happened\nand forgive my past sins. For Verily, You turn mercifully toward Your\nbondsmen. O Allah! None can be better than You in showing Mercy to\nme, so kindly be compassionate to me, and impose not anyone in this\nworld and in the Hereafter on me who may not show mercy towards me.\nO Allah! Call me not to account for the misdeeds of mine which You\nhave kindly concealed so as to punish me on the Day of Resurrection\nand let not Your entire creation mock at me. O my Lord! Forgive me in\nboth the worlds for You are All-forgiving, Merciful. O Allah! I deserve not\nto reach Your Mercy but Your Mercy can reach me and take me under\nits shelter for it has taken everything within its fold; it should therefore\ntake me under its fold, O the Most Merciful! O Allah! There are some of\nYour privileged bondsmen who obey Your Commands and carry out that\nfor which You have created them. This ability of theirs is under Your\nobligation, bestowed by none other than You. O the Most Merciful! Your\nBlessing them with Your Mercy preceded their obedience to You. O\nAllah! O my Master! O my Lord! O my Allah! O my Shelter! O my\nProtection! O my Strength! O the Comfort of my heart! O my Creator! O\nmy Providence! Bless me with the privilege given to them with ability to\nperform which they were made able and show to me All-embracing\nPerfect Mercy as shown to them, O the Most Merciful! O You! Whom\nmultiple voices do not confuse O You! Whom the requests of the\nseekers do not put in the wrong. O You! Whom the pressing solicitations\nof persistent requesters do not annoy, make me taste the coolness of\nYour Forgiveness and Sweetness of Your Remembrance and Your\nMercy. O Allah! I beseech You for Your Forgiveness of my sins for which\nI turned penitent to You but committed the same again. And I seek\nforgiveness for disobedience to You, the strength thereof I derived with\nYour Bounties bestowed on me. And I seek Your forgiveness for all such\ndeeds performed to derive Your pleasure but got me mingled with the\nthings which did not befit You. And I seek Your forgiveness for the\npromise which I made but I broke my promise. And I seek Your\nforgiveness for deeds committed under the urge of my self-seeking soul\nto take advantage of the respite granted by You, through the\nperformance of such deeds during the respite is not permitted, O the\nGlorious and the Gracious! O You! Who bestowed upon me the\nknowledge of His Self, occupy me not in anyone else other than You,\nand entrust me not to anyone save You, and make me independent of\nYour creation save You, O the Most Merciful! Bless Muhammad\n(s.a.w.a.) and his purified Progeny.","title":"The Alawite Book: His supplication for the twenty-eighth of the month","type":"page"}