Appendix 2: Dua Kumayl

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Intensely Merciful O Allah! Bless Muhammad and his progeny . O Allah! I ask You by Your mercy which encompasses all things And by Your power by which You overcome all things and submit to it all things and humble before it all things And by Your invincibility by which You have conquered all things And by Your majesty which nothing can withstand And by Your greatness which filled all things And by Your force which towers over all things And by Your face which remains after all things have vanished And by Your Names which have filled the foundations of all things; And by Your knowledge which surrounds all things And by the light of Your face which illuminates all things . O light! O Most Holy! O First of those who are first! O Last of those who are last . O Allah! Forgive for me those sins which tear apart the infallibilities . Forgive for me those sins which bring calamity . O Allah, forgive me those sins which alter blessings . O Allah forgive for me those sins which hold back supplication . O Allah forgive for me those sins which cut down the hopes . O Allah, forgive for me those sins which draw tribulation . O Allah, forgive for me every sin I have committed and every mistake I have made . O Allah, verily I seek nearness to You through remembrance of You, and I seek intercession from You with Yourself, and I ask You through Your generosity to bring me close to Your nearness, and to provide me with gratitude toward You and to inspire me with Your remembrance . O Allah, verily I ask You with the asking of a submissive, abased and lowly man to forgive me and have mercy on me and to make me satisfied and content with Your appointment and humble in every state . O Allah, I ask You the question of one whose indigence is extreme, and who has stated to You in difficulties his need, and whose desire for what is with You has become great . O Allah, Your force is tremendous, Your place is lofty, and Your deception is hidden, Your matter is apparent, and Your domination is overwhelming, Your power is unhindered, and escape from Your governance is impossible . O Allah, I find no forgiver of my sins, nor concealer of my

ugly acts nor transformer of any of my ugly acts into good acts but You . There is no god but You . Glory be to You, and Yours is the praise! I have wronged myself, and I have been audacious in my ignorance, and I have depended upon Your ancient remembrance of me and Your favour toward me . O Allah! O my Protector! How many ugly things You have concealed . How many burdensome tribulations You have abolished . And how many stumbles You have prevented . And how many ordeals You hast repelled . And how much beautiful praise, for which I was unworthy, You hast spread abroad . O Allah, my tribulation is tremendous, And my bad state is excessive, And my acts are inadequate, And my chains have tied me down, and my far-fetched hopes have held me back from my gain . And this world with its delusions, my own soul with its offenses and my delay have deceived me . O my Master! So I ask You by Your might not to let my evil works and acts veil my supplication from You, And not to disgrace me through the hidden things You know of my secrets, And not to hasten me to punishment for what I have done in private: My evil acts in secrecy and my misdeeds And my continuous negligence and my ignorance and my many desires and my forgetfulness . And by Your might, O Allah, be kind to me in all states And be gracious to me in all affairs! My God and my Lord! Have I any but You from whom to ask removal of my affliction and regard for my affairs! My God and my Protector! You put into effect through me a decree in which I followed the desire of my own soul And I did not remain wary of adorning my enemy . So he deluded me through my soul’s desire and destiny favoured him therein . So due to that, I transgressed some of Your limits And disobeyed some of Your commands . So Yours is the argument against me in all of that . I have no argument in what Your destiny put into effect through me therein, nor in what Your decree and Your tribulation imposed upon me . Now I have come to You, My God, after my shortcoming and my immoderation toward myself, offering my excuse, regretful, broken, apologizing, asking forgiveness, repenting, Acknowledging, submissive, confessing . I find no place to flee from what occurred from me, Nor any place of escape to turn to with my affairs, other than Your acceptance of my excuse and Your entering me into the compass of Your mercy . O Allah, so accept my excuse, have mercy upon the severity of my affliction, and release me from the tightness of my chains . My Lord, have mercy upon the

weakness of my body, the thinness of my skin and the frailty of my bones . O You who initiated my creation, my remembrance, my raising, my nourishment and goodness toward me, bestow upon me, for the sake of Your initial generosity and Your prior goodness to me . O Allah, my Master and my Lord! Can You see Yourself tormenting me with Your fire after I have professed Your monotheism, and after what my heart has embraced from knowledge of You, and after what my tongue has spoken from remembrance of you, and what my conscience has embraced from love of You, and after the honesty of my confession, and my supplication, while I am humble to your lordship? Far be it from You! You are more generous than to let go of the one whom you have nurtured, or banish him whom you have drawn near, or drive away he whom you have sheltered, or submit to tribulation he whom You have spared and shown mercy . I would not see You to do that, my Master, My God and my Protector . Would you empower the fire over faces which fell down in prostration to Your greatness, and over tongues which spoke sincerely of Your monotheism and were laudatory in givings thanks to You, and over hearts which were certain in acknowledging Your Divinity, and over consciences which encompassed knowledge of You until they had become submissive, and over parts of a body which strove to the places of Your worship in obedience and beckoning for Your forgiveness in submission . No such belief is to be held about You, nor has such been reported, due to Your favor O Generous One, My Lord . And You know my weakness before the few tribulations and punishments of this world, and before those ordeals which befall its inhabitants, even though it is a tribulation and ordeal whose stay is short, whose remaining is little and whose period is fleeting . So how can I endure the tribulations of the next world and the great ordeals that occur within it? For it is a tribulation whose period is long, whose station endures and whose sufferers are given no respite, since it is only due to Your wrath, Your vengeance and Your anger, and these cannot be withstood by the heavens and the earth . O Master, so what about me?! For I am Your weak, lowly, debased, poor and wretched servant . My God! My Lord! My Master! My Protector! For which things would I complain to You? And for which of them would I lament and weep? For the pain and severity of torture? Or for the length and period of tribulation? So if You take me to the punishments with Your enemies,And

gather me with the people of Your tribulation, and separate me from Your beloved ones and supporters, Then suppose, My God, my Master, my Protector and my Lord that I am able to endure Your torture, How can I endure separation from You? And suppose that I am able to endure the heat of Your fire, How can I endure not gazing upon Your generosity?Or how can I dwell in the Fire while my hope is Your pardon? So by Your might, my Master and my protector, I swear sincerely, if You leave me with speech, I will lament to You from the midst of the Fire’s inhabitants with lamentation of the hopeful; I will cry to You with the cry of those crying for help; I will weep to You with the weeping of the bereaved, And I will call to You, Where are You, O Supporter of the believers, O Goal of the hopes of Your knowers, O Aid of those who seek assistance, O Beloved of the hearts of the sincere, And O God of all the world’s inhabitants! Cans You see Yourself - Glory be to You My God, and Yours is the praised - hearing within the Fire the voice of a servant surrendered to You,Imprisoned there because of his violations Tasting the favour of its torment because of his disobedience,, And confined within its levels because of his sin and crime, While he laments to You with the lamentation of one hopeful for Your mercy, And calls to You with the tongue of those who profess Your monotheism, and begs You by Your lordship! My Protector, so how should he remain in the torture, while he has hope for Your previous clemency? Or how should the Fire cause him pain while he expects Your bounty and mercy? Or how should its flames burn him, while You hear his voice and see his place? Or how should its groaning encompass him, while You know his weakness? Or how should he be convulsed among its levels, while You know his sincerity? Or how should its keepers torture him while he calls out to You, O Lord? Or how should he have hope of Your bounty in freeing him from it, while You abandon him within it? Far be it from You! That is not the belief about You, Nor what is well-known of Your favor,Nor it is similar to the goodness and kindness You have shown to those who profess Your monotheism . So I declare with certainty that were it not for what You have decreed concerning the torture of Your deniers, and what You hast preordained concerning the everlasting home of those who stubbornly resist, You would make the Fire, all of it, coolness and safety, And no one would have a place or home within it . But You-holy are Your Names-have

sworn that You will fill it with the disbelievers, both Jinn and men together, and that You will place therein forever those who stubbornly resist . And You- majestic is Your praise- said at the beginning and were gracious through kindness as a favour, So is he who has been a believer like him who has been corrupt? They are not equal, My God and my Master! So I ask You by the power You have apportioned, and by the decision which You have determined and made explicit and You overcame the one to whom it applies, that You forgive for me, in this night and at this hour, every offense I have committed and every sin i have performed and every ugly act I have concealed and every ignorance I have enacted, whether I hid or announced it, concealed or revealed it, and every evil act which you have commanded the noble writers to record, those whom You have appointed to watch over what I do, and made them witnesses over me, along with the parts of my body, and You were the Guardian over me behind them, and the witness of what was hidden from them, yet through Your mercy You concealed it, and through Your favor You veiled it . [And I ask You] that You bestow upon me an abundant share of every good You send down, Or kindness You confer, or goodness You unfold or provision You spread, or sin You forgive or error You cover . My Lord! My Lord! My Lord! My God! My Master! My Protector! Owner of my freedom! O He in whose hand is my forelock!O He who knows my affliction and my misery! O He who is aware of my poverty and indigence! My Lord! My Lord! My Lord! I ask You by Your Truth and Your Holiness And the greatest of Your Attributes and Names, that You make my times in the night and the day inhabited by Your remembrance, And joined to Your service, And my works acceptable to You, so that my works and my supplications may all be a single supplication, And my occupation with Your service everlasting . My Master! O He upon whom I depend! O He to whom I complain about my states! My Lord! My Lord! My Lord! Strengthen my body to be at Your service, And fortify my arms with determination And bestow upon me earnestness in my fear of You And continuity in my being joined to Your service So that I may move easily toward You on the tracks of the foremost ones And [be of utmost] hurry to You among the prominent ones And desire [most] fervently Your nearness from among the fervently desirous ones And move near to You as with the nearness of the sincere ones . And fear

You with the fear of those who have certitude And gather with the believers in Your vicinity . O Allah, whoever desires evil for me, desire [it] for him! whoever deceives me-deceive him! And make me one of Your servants who receives the finest portion from You, And the nearest of them in station to You And the most special of them in nearness to You . For that cannot be attained except by Your favor . And grant generously to me by Your generosity, And show compassion toward me by Your glory . And protect me by Your mercy! And make my tongue remember You without ceasing And my heart captivated by Your love! And be gracious to me by Your fine response, and nullify my slips and forgive my lapses, For You have decreed Your worship upon Your servants And commanded them to supplicate to You And have assured them the response . So toward You, my Lord, I have turned my face And toward You, my Lord, I have extended my hand . So by Your might, respond to my supplication And allow me to realize my wishes! Do not sever my hoping for Your Favours And spare me the evil of my enemies from among the jinn and mankind! O He, whose satisfaction is quickly achieved! Forgive him who owns nothing but supplication, for You do what You will . O He whose Name is a remedy, And whose remembrance is a cure, And whose obedience is wealth! Have mercy upon him whose capital is hope And whose weapon is tears! O You who are Abundant in blessings . O You, the Repeller of adversities! O Light of those who are lonely in the darkness! O Knower who was never taught! Bless Muhammad and Muhammad’s progeny! And do with me what is most worthy of You! And Allah bless His messenger and the holy Imams of his progeny And give them abundant peace!