The Alawite Book: His Supplication expressing devotion to...
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His Supplication expressing devotion to
Allah
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
O Allah, shower blessings on Muhammad and his Progeny (s.a.w.a.) Be
merciful when I pass away from the world or the people forget my
memories or I am counted among those who are forgotten. O Allah, I
have become old. My skin and bones have become weak and thin.
People have acquired whatever I had and my youth has passed. Death
has come near and my life is getting over, my desires have gone and
only the results are remaining. O My Lord, have mercy on me when I will
pass away from the world and my parts of the body will be broken and
scattered. O My Lord, my sins have made me quiet and I have become
dumb. Now I don't have any excuses or arguments. Now I confess my
sins and bad deeds. I am guilty and misled from the right path. Allah
send Your blessings on Muhammad and his Progeny (s.a.w.a.) and be
merciful and forgive my sins. O my Lord, though my deeds are indiscrete
against my obeying but my expectations are more than hopes. O Allah,
why should I be disappointed? Though I am supposed to gain liberation
by Your compassion. O Allah do not disappoint me from Your gracious
presumption and do not prove to be wrong my true expectations among
Your candidates. O My Lord! My sin is great because You will ask for an
explanation but when I remember of my sins and see Your forgiveness I
feel that You would forgive. If Your severe chastisement calls me
towards hell because of my sins, my expectations of Your gracious
presumption call me towards Paradise. If my errors threaten me and
disappoints me from Your favour and grace, Your kindness encourages
my faith. O my Lord! If my carelessness misled me, my Lord! Your
honourable bounties make me alert. O my Lord! My sense, my reforms,
and my strength become helpless, but my faith has not vanished as
Your gainful gratification is with me. If the days of my life have passed
without efforts in Your way, at least and few years have passed with
faith. O Allah! I am a plaintiff in Your court as a needy and poor. The
trouble of my hardship has made me helpless. O Allah! You are
honourable! Make me succeed because I am one of Your petitioners. Do
favour on me and count me with those who benefit from You. O My
Lord! No one can turn out my poverty except You and no one can fulfill
my desires without Your reward. O My Lord! I am standing as a beggar
at the door of Your generosity. I have abandoned asking others. O Allah!
Bestow Your blessings to the petitioner. As I am in one of the dangerous
points. I am involved in the trial of deeds and standard. I shall perish if
You do not help me. O My Lord! Have You created me like an
unfortunate one to cry? Or ask my wants from the fortunate ones? O My
Lord! If You debarred from the Paradise to visit Muhammad Mustafa
(s.a.w.a.) and prevent Angels of Darussalam (heaven) round about on
me for the service and turn out my desires unsuccessful in the world.
Whatever hopes I have from You is quite different from it. O Excellence!
I swear of Your respect and glory, if You keep me bound and away from
Your blessings and keep me aloof from the respectable persons I shall
not leave my hopes from You. I shall await for Your blessings. O Allah, I
would not be rightly guided without Your guidance. I cannot accept a
faith if You wouldn't guide me I would not call You if You would not have
given the power to speak. I would not recognize You if You had not
forgiven with friendly attitudes. I would not ask for shelter if You would
not mention about the wrath. O Allah, I carry out Your orders and it is
monotheism and if I disobey Your orders it is infidelity. So pardon both.
O my Lord! I like Your obedience if I would be neglected or do mistake
purposely, for that bestow me the heaven, though I am not a righteous
person for the heaven and save me from the hell because I am not fit for
it. O my Lord! Though my sins have prevented me to go ahead from the
virtuous people but my faith has made me stand on the point of good
deeds. O My Lord! The heart, which You have filled by love, then how
can the flames of fire of hell overpower it? O Allah! How can You
disgrace in hellfire the soul satisfied with faith? O Allah, how can You
burn in the blazing fire the tongue which recites Your name? O My Lord!
All disaster affected persons request You; All grief-stricken people seek
protection from You, O my Lord! The pious people heard about the great
rewards they bring down their heads down in humility and ascetic
people heard about Your extant blessings and became contented. And
the misled people heard about Your generosity they turn back again.
The culprits heard about Your great extent of forgiveness, they became
hopeful. The believers heard about Your reward of forgiveness they
became seeker. O My Lord! The Group of unbelievers gathered and
prayed loudly. These people are in the world and all people live by hope
alone. They have showed the feelings of their mind. They have no fear
of any obstacle and are restless and You are the centre of them that
seekers are not dishonoured and insulted in Your court. O Allah! If I
have made a mistake to consider for myself that there is safety and
honour after the request, I would surely get the right path. O Allah!
Perhaps this time I have become fortunate after getting Your help, and I
hope You will forgive me. O Allah! If my effort of getting benefit left me
but Your gracefulness have not become separate. O My Lord! If I gave
decision for me in which I had hopes I fulfilled my duties to bring it near
by Your grace and blessings. O My Lord! The lack of preparation for
hereafter stopped me to be present in Your court, so I have sent my
precious feelings to You with faith and trust. O my Lord whenever I
remember Your blessings, my face shines and when I remember of Your
wrath I cry with fear. O my Lord! Do favour on this miserable person,
who is thirsty and whose veins of the neck bow down by tiredness. O my
Lord! I pray like one who does not expect from anyone except You. I
depend on You that my hopes cannot turn towards anyone except You.
O My Lord! One who says seeing Your bounties that why should I return
back and I am dependent on You to get my livelihood. O Allah! How can
I reticent my tongue to request You. As I am very restless for the result
of hereafter. O My Lord! You are aware of my expectation and You have
promised to provide livelihood in the life. And You are aware that after
my death I am not contented of heaven. O Your personality is so great,
that You showed Your mercy by Your favour. Do not disappoint me of
Your favour on the Day of Judgment when I would be badly in need of it.
The observation of the blessings of Generous and His Generosity are
completed if I would not be ignored of my matters I would not take false
step and if I would consider of my transgression of limits I would not cry.
O My Lord! Send Your blessing on Prophet, Muhammad Mustafa and
his progeny (s.a.w.a.) and erase the documents of taking false steps in
the course of time. For the sake of my running tears, forgive my great
sins forgive them for the sake of my minor good deeds. O Allah if You
are not merciful on anyone except the obedient people, where would
they go and complain for their mistakes? If You do not accept a
suggestion of anyone except the hard workers, then where would the
wrongdoer go for their request? If You respect only the elegance people,
then what would the sinful people do? If no one can be successful
except the pious people in hereafter, then to whom should we ask for
help? O My Lord! One who he can pass from extremely narrow bridge
which is the pathway of Paradise and whose good deeds are permitted,
then how will they cross the way who have not repented before death?
O My Lord! You show Your favour only to those who have submitted
their whole life in pious devotion, then who will be helpful to this sinful
person, who has not become happy though he tried hard. O Allah! If You
don't care to look at a monotheist because he is a sinner and You will
put him in difficulty by Your curse? If You do not help us by Your
gratitude, we would be mixed up along with those who associate with
You. O Allah! For the sake of Islam, make us righteous of Your
endowments and forgive our sinful manners which make Your clean
bestowals dirty, cleanse them. O My Lord! Take pity on our miserable
condition when we would be buried in the grave and our grave will be
packed by bricks and we would be laid down by the right side in the
grave and the people leave us alone in the narrow resting place and our
death will settle us in a strange place and we would be surrounded in
the crowd of the dead. Though they would be uninhabited. O my God,
be Merciful at that time, when we would be bare-footed and naked and
the dust of the grave covers our head and our eyes would be wide open
with the fear of the day of reckoning and our lips dried in thirst, and our
stomach, hungry due to the long wait. And if on the Day of Judgment if
none can be successful except the pious people, we would be
absolutely naked before the people. Our backs shall be heavy with our
load. We shall be involved in the calamities created by our kith and kin.
You do not add to my problems by turning away Your kind attention from
us, and by keeping us away from Your Mercy that we have visualized. O
my Lord! These eyes are not attentive to their tears for nothing, nor this
sinner is weeping aimlessly, nor it has wept like an emotional woman for
nothing. The reason is that he has already committed sins intentionally
and unintentionally. Now the consequences of his examination are
calling him. And O, the Owner of Might, You are capable of removing his
misery. O my God! If we sinners are weeping because of our
shortcomings in paying homage to You, and if we are failures, we are
weeping due to the lack of Mercy that we beg from You. O my God!
Increase the eloquence of the sweetness of my expression so that it may
guide our heart towards piety in the light of the matters it understands. O
my God! You have commanded to do good and Yourself are the best of
the good-doers and You have issued the orders to ask You for our
needs while You are the best of those who are asked. O my God! How
can despair prevent us from asking that we are accustomed to beg.
Moreover, we have reposed high hopes in You. O Allah! When the
storm of terror shakes the leaves of our fear, those trees get uprooted,
and when the breeze of our attachments touch the branches of our
desires, its fruits ripen due to the glad tidings. When Your epithet, “the
severest of those who requite” comes on our lips, we feel extreme
sorrow and remorse and when we recite: O The Concealer of Faults,
The Compassionate, we become very happy. Now we are in the middle
of fear and hope. Fear does not make us satisfied and Your divine
favour does not disappoint us. O Allah! Our efforts fail to cast off from
Your favour and keep me safe from Your wrath. O Allah! You always
send Your blessing as a gift and has made me respectable in the world.
And You always helped and showed Your elegant attitude to the
notorious and disgraceful people. The past centuries, promises of past
times and termination in the course of time in remaining nights. O Allah!
Our life is depending on whatever is necessary in life, increase them
through the medium of Your blessings. How could our heart be happy by
the worldly desires? How could our dealings be formal in worldly
trouble? How could our happiness be ruined and how could our deceits
prevent from absurdity and useless talk. Though our graves inform us
that death is coming near. O My Lord! How could we find the way when
pits are ready for us to make us sleep and the strings of treacherous
world has been distributed by the hands of death and made us helpless
and made us drink bitter drought of water. Our soul has been informed
us that the life would be terminated. I wish that I would not distant about
the worldly comforts and would not take a false step O My Lord! I pray to
You earnestly to help me to pass across the bridge and request You to
save us from the false desires and request You to raise the curtains of
confusion from the heart and save me from the wrong and uncivilized
intentions of the mind. O My Lord! Do the houses have strength to save
from the attack of troubles? When one of the arrows of death falls in
every house. O Allah! If our heart would not fear while shifting from the
world or if You would not keep us aloof from the virtuous people there. O
Allah! If You keep us near to You, then separation of our brothers and
other relatives will not harm us. O Allah the Bestower! Veins of our
throat and tongues would not dry up if unnatural offence would not turn
round and round like birds. O Allah! I was an obedient person and You
had created me to obey Your commands. You cursed me and kept me
away from Your bounties because of my bad deeds. And if You show
mercy on me, whenever I was obedient to You but You found me guilty
and made me free. O My Lord! There is no way to be saved from evils
without Your protection. There is no source to reach up to the good
deeds except Your will. Now after Your previous will I shall try to take
advantage of my deeds so I can protect myself from sins and for that if
You would not help me. O My Lord! I did not know anything but when
You gave the guidance for the heaven and after knowing about that my
heart turned towards it. Is that so that after turning towards the good
deeds, You would disappoint me? Though You do what You like and it
is praiseworthy. O Allah! The Lord of Majesty and Generosity! If I do not
deserve Your blessing then do a favour. It is Your capability because the
Generous never blesses only the deserving ones. O my God! If I am not
deserving of Your mercies that I hope from You but You are the One to
bestow favours upon the sinful ones. O Allah! If my sins frighten me, do
favour on me due to Your great personality and my hopes turn out to be
pleasant. O My Lord! My request is not like that of common beggars
because if they are unsuccessful they give up begging and I do not feel
ashamed to ask for my request at any cost. O my Lord! Be pleased with
me. Sometimes the master forgives his slave for his error. O my Lord!
How can I say, I am a great sinner and how can I be disappointed from
You because You are generous and Merciful. O my Lord! My life and my
soul are present before You and You cast a shadow of beauty on it. As
You did what is suitable for You and hid me in Your rewards. If my death
is near and if my deeds do not allow me to come to You then I have also
decided to confess my sin again and again in Your court for forgiveness.
O My Lord! You are the Forgiving. Who can be the other Forgiving
except You and if You would punish me then who is the judge higher
than You? O my Lord! If I show high-handedness for the defence of my
soul and then also Your given limits continuing as before and even then
if I do not hang my neck down then rebuke on my soul. O My Lord! You
showed Your mercy on my whole life so do not discontinue Your
kindness after my death. O Allah! Why should I be disappointed from
Your favour after death? As You showed Your good favour in my life. O
my Lord! My sins frightened me but my love towards You gave me
protection. Help me as You are capable and take care of my ignorance.
O Allah! Nothing is concealed for Your great personality. And send Your
blessing on Your Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny. And
forgive my sins, which are hidden from the sight of common people. O
My Lord! You concealed my sins from me in the world and did not
disclose them. As I deserve that my sins should not be disclosed in the
hereafter. As You showed Your favour and concealed my sins before
the Muslims. Do not disgrace me on the day of resurrection before the
world. My hopes increased seeing Your generosity and You accepted
my deeds. Make me cheerful when my death is near. O my Lord! My
repentance is like that of a sinner, whose excuses are accepted. O
Allah, The Great! The accused apologize and do not disgrace me for my
only one wish for which I passed my whole life and that is Your
forgiveness. O my Lord! If You would be desirous for my insult then You
would not give the guidance or if You would like my infamy, You would
not conceal my faults and for that You showed me the right path to get
good benefit and whatever my sin You have concealed, keep it firm. O
my Lord! In Your trial, I praise You for Your expected trial and mentioned
Your elegance. This is the completion of Your forgiveness O Allah! If I
would not fear of my sin then how would I be saved from Your wrath and
would become a petitioner of Your reward? Your Personality is best from
all virtuous people. You excuse the sinners and fulfill the desires of
needy people who beg for Your mercy. O Allah, I hope, You will forgive
me then let my desires succeed. I have heard about Your forgiveness so
now fulfill all my desires and forgive my sins, which I have committed. O
Allah! My virtues lay down before You and bad deeds are laid between
forgive and forgiveness. I hope You will not cast off my good and bad
deeds from Your favour. O Allah! My faith accepted Your oneness and I
keep my tongue in utterance Your praise and the Holy Quran showed
me the initiative of Your mercy then how can it be possible that I shall
lose hope about Your promises? O Allah! Your coherent obligations
guided me nicely and I became satisfied then how can You make a man
unfortunate and villainous? O my Lord! If You have become very angry
but I hope, Your kind attitude would save me from Your wrath O Allah! If
my sins brought me forth for punishment my hopes also has come
forward for reward. O Allah! Forgive me and bless me and save me from
Your wrath. Your personality is such that none can expect anything
except Your Grace and no fear of anything except Your final judgment.
O Allah! Send blessing on Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny and
do a favour on me and do not investigate more against me due to
judgment. O My Lord! You have created my body and its parts and I pay
homage with it and sometimes disobey orders and sometimes make You
unhappy and sometimes happy and You granted me passion in my heart
and chose me for this house which is full of disasters and then You said
that I am prevented due to my sin. Now I beseech You for protection and
support and want to protect myself from Your wrath and beseech good
guidance for Your willingness. O my Lord! I ask You only as my question
is not concealed from You. O my Lord! I beg You like a beggar and not
feel ashamed to beg because You are my master and I beseech You as
one who is agreed against his argument. If I knew of something more
important the confession of sin, I would pray. O Allah, forgive my sin.
After the confession do not make me fail. And his wishes have opened
their mouths for Your Mercy, while they are not in need of kindness. O
our Deity! Grant to them what they beg of You and bestow on them what
they ask. Because You are the most merciful of those who are kind upon
the ones that repose hopes in You. O Allah! I have committed such
terrible sins that You are well aware of and the injustices I have
committed upon myself are well known to You. Then You consider me
as a slave emancipated by You or a disobedient one forgiven by You. O
my Deity! O my Allah! I am thinking as if I have been made to lie down in
my grave. The participants of my funeral have returned home after
burying me. The travelers have already mourned my condition and the
kind relatives have stopped weeping on me. And the friends have
already finished reciting the Talqeen from besides the grave. And they
were seeing this grave at that time. They are no more thoughtful of his
needs. Neither did they witness his torture. The failure of his efforts
were concealed by the soil (of the grave). Then You said - O My Angels!
A man has arrived and his friends and relatives have gone away. He is
all-alone and his friends and relatives have showed high-handedness.
Now he has come to Me. He is lying without his inheritance in the grave.
He was calling Me in the world. Now it is My duty to look after him. Now
Allah will show His hospitality and He will be more kind than my friends
and relatives. O Allah! If You stopped Your atmosphere between the
earth and sky and split the stars or take me down deep under the
ground due to my sins, I shall not give up my hopes for Your rewards.
My disappointment cannot prevent me from seeking Your pleasure.
O Allah! I have called You politely as per Your guidance. Now do not
say it was Your promise. This was Your blessing that shows me the nice
manners for supplication. Now it is the only way, fulfill my prayer and
make me righteous and able for Your praise. O my Lord! I swear by Your
honour and respect, my affection is vigilant in my heart for You and it is
sweet. And Your beloved believers do not believe anyhow that You
would hate them. O my Lord I am waiting for Your forgiveness like an
accused and I am not disappointed from Your blessings and good
deeds. O my Lord! Do not be angry with me. I have no courage to
tolerate Your anger. And do not be displeased with me because I cannot
tolerate it. O my Lord! Did my mother brought me up for hell? I wish if
she had not brought me up. Had she gave birth to me for wretchedness?
I wish she had not. O Allah! When I remember about my false step, tears
flow from my eyes and why should I not cry? Though I don't know my
last destination and I don't know when and where my journey would end.
I even know my soul deceives me and my days deceive me and death is
hovering on my head and staring at me from near. The caller's cry
poisoned my ears. O Allah! I devoted my life to One Who bestows me
good health. I hope You will not awake me naked among the dead. I
hope You showed Your kindness in my life and recommend the same
kindness at the time of my death. O the companion of every traveler,
have pity on my journey of the grave. O the companion of every person
in solitude, have mercy on my solitude in the grave. O one Who is aware
of every secret, O one Who wards off every calamity and trouble, how
would You deal with me in the habitations of the grave? And how much
esteem You’d have for me in the land of horror and calamities? You
were very kind to me in my worldly life. O one Who showers the best of
the bounties among all those who bestow bounties and one Who is the
best of those Who do favours. O Allah! Your favours upon me are so
numerous that I cannot count them and I am unable repay all of them by
thanking for them. Praise for that You bestowed on me and thankfulness
upon the way You have tested me. O one Who is better than the call of
everyone who calls You and O, one Who is better than the hope of all
those who hope. I have come to beg to You by the right of Islam and the
sanctity of the Quran. And by the Sadaqah of the right of Muhammad
(s.a.w.a.) and Aale Muhammad (s.a.w.a.), I seek nearness to Your
realm. Bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and the Progeny of Muhammad
(s.a.w.a.) and grant Your attention to my duty of Your obedience. By
which I harbour hopes in You. Please accept my entreaty O the most
merciful of all the mercifuls.