The Alawite Book: His supplication seeking refuge from Allah
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His supplication seeking refuge from Allah
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
O Allah! You are my Lord and I am Your slave, I have brought faith in
You. I am firm on Your covenant with sincerity, and after pledging my
covenant to You I seek forgiveness for my sins. I seek forgiveness for
those sins, which no one can forgive except You. My helplessness
wishes to take refuge in Your Majesty and Honour. My poverty seeks
refuge in Your self-sufficiency. My ignorance seeks refuge in Your
tolerance and my laxity seeks refuge in Your Power. My fear seeks
refuge in Your safety. My illness seeks refuge in Your cure. My death
seeks refuge in Your judgment. My weakness seeks refuge in Your
strength. My mortality seeks refuge in Your immortality. My extinction
seeks refuge in Your eternality. O Allah! From Whom the darkness of
the night is not concealed, nor the big sky is covered, neither the
creatures living in the sea nor those living in the bottom of sea are
hidden from You. O the one to nullify the strength and the one to waive
the troubles. O the One to send bounties from the skies. I request You,
O the one to open the ways, O the one Who rewards, O the possessor
of the keys of the treasures. I request You to bless Muhammad
(s.a.w.a.) and his pure progeny. Grant me the goodness of the world
and the Hereafter . Save me from the temptation, which has
overpowered me and which can destroy me. Don't entrust me to
somebody else even for a second, as he will be helpless of me, don't
make me away from Heaven. Have mercy on me, let me die as a
Muslim, and gather me together with pious people. Grant me pure
sustenance and save me from forbidden. O the most merciful of all the
mercifuls. O Allah! You have created the hearts and the minds for Your
recognition, the heart beats due to Your fear, and the heart is restless
due to Your love. The mind is weak for praising You and words are
unable to describe Your wonders, the tongues are dumb to describe
Your Praise and even if it praises You, understanding Your attributes
silences it, and now it circles around it in amazement which You have
established, as it is impossible for it to exceed Your limits, it is possible
for him to praise in the limits of the boundary made by You and the
tongues are the bounties bestowed by You. O Allah! You have a right
upon all Your creatures whom You have created and they should not act
niggardly and if this thankfulness is lesser than Your bounties they
praise according to their strength and power, and one who is lacking in
this depends on Your hopes, and those who fear You are accepting
Your lordship. The seekers come near to You with hopes. Those who
oblige are searching Your grace and all of them are busy in the shade of
Your Mercy and Forgiveness. Due to Your fear, degradation has
weakened them, they confess of not being thankful to Your bounties.
Those who were disobedient and did not follow Your commands their
deeds did not stop You from increasing their cattle, give them their full
measure and take sorrow away from them, and make them afraid of
Your chastisement. Or he who does goodness You increase his reward.
You have made thankfulness incumbent on those who obey You and
also made it obligatory on the evildoers. You have promised these doers
of good that Your obligation on them will be greater than their obligation.
You are pure, You give reward for those things which begin and end in
Your name. I praise You to such an extent that it achieves Your
happiness and like a person who by praising You reaches in Your
presence and by it becomes eligible for Your bounties. My Lord there is
a special support and specific bounties for Your beloved people, so
bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny and grace us with Your
special support and specific bounties which are present at the time of
calamities, a protector at the time of loses, and deliverance from
destruction and an excellent guide to show the right path. O the one who
saves us from calamities, and the one to multiply good deeds. O the one
to increase the destinies and the one to perfect the bounties, O the one
to conceal the defects and to cover one's faults, grant me the grace and
to seek more forgiveness for the sins because You are too near and the
one to accept our supplications. And send blessings on Your appointed
and beloved creation and give excessive bounties to the recipient of
Your revelations. Send on them Your best of the bounties as they have
propagated Your message, explained Your laws clearly, called the
people to Your path, and with living examples have established proof of
Your existence till the time they acquired certainty. O Allah bless
Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny and also send mercy on the pure
progeny and reserve for them those bounties which You have selected
for Your special Prophets and have bestowed on them. O the most
merciful of all the mercifuls. O Allah! It is only Your wishes, that none
can restrain from fulfillment, the destructions have accepted defeat in
causing hurdles in completion of Your wishes. Thus by Your wishes and
by Your grace bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and his progeny and make
these wishes reach completion as You are the possessor of vast Mercy
and the forgiver, the acceptor of supplications and the hearer of the
calls.