Appendix 4: Munajat of Shaban

O Allah, pray upon Muhammad and his progeny and respond to my prayer when I pray to You; listen to my call when I call You; and turn to me when I supplicate to you . I have come running to You and am standing between your hands imploring You in humility and hoping to get a reward from you . You know what is in my heart, and You are aware of what I need . You know my thoughts, and my future and my present are not hidden from You, nor is that with which I want to begin my speech; the request I would utter, and the hopes I have in regard to my destination . My Lord, whatever You have written for me up to the end of my life, whether regarding its open or hidden aspect, is bound to come . My benefit, my lack of benefit, my gains and my losses are in Your hand, not in the hand of anyone else . My Lord, if You deprive me, who will ever provide for me; and if You fail me, who will ever support me? My Lord, I seek Your protection from Your anger and from earning Your wrath . If I am not fit for gaining Your mercy, You are certainly fit to be generous to me by the virtue of Your Magnanimity . My Lord, I see myself standing before You, and it is overshadowed by my good reliance upon You . So You said what befitted You and covered me with Your forgiveness . My Lord, if You forgive, then who is more fit than You to do that? If the time of my death has come near and my deeds have not brought me close to You, I make this confession of my sins a means of reaching You . O Lord, I have done myself injustice by considering it [myself], so it is damned if You do not forgive it . My Lord, Your kindness has continued upon me during my lifetime, so do not cut off Your kindness toward me at the time of my death . My Lord, how can I lose hope of Your kind consideration of me after my death, when You have given me nothing but good during my lifetime? My Lord, in my matter, do what befits You and bestow Your favor

upon a guilty one whose ignorance enveloped him . My Lord, You have concealed guilts in this world and I am more needy of their concealment in the Hereafter . My Lord,You have been charitable toward me by not revealing them to any of Your pious servants, so do not expose me on the day of resurrection before everyone . My Lord, Your generosity has expanded my hope, and Your forgiveness is finer than my work . O Lord, so gladden me by Your meeting on a day in which You judge Your servants . My Lord, my apology to you is the apology of one who cannot afford having it unaccepted . So accept my apology, You are the Most Generous One to receive the apologies of the evildoers . My Lord, do not deny my need and do not turn down my greed [in Your forgiveness], and do not cut off my hope and expectation of You . My Lord, if You had wanted to disgrace me, You would not have guided me; and if You had wanted to expose me, You would not have kept me safe . My Lord, I do not believe You would turn down my request which I spent my lifetime asking of You . My Lord, all praise is due to You, always and forever, growing and not diminishing, as You love and please . My Lord, if You hold me for my crimes, I will hold on to Your forgiveness, and if You hold me for my guilts, I will hold on to Your granting pardon . If You haul me into hell, I will let its inmates know of my love for you . My Lord, if my deeds are too small in regards to how I should obey You, my hope grows when I consider what I should expect of You . My Lord, how can I go away from You deprived and disappointed, when I had great faith that You would be generous enough to send me away enjoying safety and mercy . My Lord, I have wasted my life committing the crime of forgetting You and played havoc with my youth, intoxicated with keeping myself away from You . My Lord, I did not wake up when I was deluded about You and inclined toward the path of earning Your wrath . My Lord, I, Your servant, son of Your servant, am standing before You, begging You by Your generosity . My Lord, I am a servant of Yours, I want to rid myself of the sins with which I used to confront you, due to my lack of shame that You were looking at me . I request forgiveness

from You, as forgiveness is a description of Your generosity . My Lord, I did not have the strength to move away from Your disobedience, except during a time when You awakened me to Your love, and I was as You wanted me to be . So I thanked you for allowing me into Your generosity, and for purifying my heart from the filth of neglecting You . My Lord, look upon me as you would look upon the one who responded to You when You called, and who obeyed You when You used him for Your support . O Near One, Who does not move away from one who is away from You . O Generous One, who does not withhold His reward from one who hopes for it . My Lord, provide me with a heart which draws nearer to you by its longing, and with a tongue which is elevated to You by its honesty, and sight which moves closer to You by its righteousness . My Lord, whoever knows You is not unknown; whoever takes shelter in You is not betrayed; and one to whom You turn is not a slave . My Lord, one who follows Your path is enlightened; and one who takes refuge in You from sins is saved from them . And I have taken refuge in You, my Lord, so do not disappoint my faith in Your mercy and do not keep me secluded from Your Compassion . My Lord, place me among the people of Your allegiance, in the rank of one who hopes for an increase in Your love . My Lord, inspire me with a passion for remembering You so that I may continue to remember You, and let my determination be for the essence of Your Holy Names and Pure Position cherish . My Lord, I invoke You to admit me to the place reserved for those who obey You, and to attach me to the favored abode of those who enjoy Your satisfaction, as I have no ability to defend or benefit myself . My Lord, I am Your guilty and weak worshipper, and your repentant slave . So do not make me among those from whom You turned Your face away, and among those whose inattentiveness deprived them of Your forgiveness . My Lord, grant me the perfection of devotion to You, and enlighten the sight of our hearts, with the light of the hearts’ looking towards You, to the extent that they penetrate the veils of Light and reach the core of greatness, and our spirits become attached to the glory of Your holiness . My Lord, and make me from those who answered you when You called them, and from those who are thunderstruck by Your majesty when You looked at them, so You

whispered to them secretly and they worked for You openly . My Lord, I have not allowed my pessimistic despair to overcome my good faith in You, nor has my hope in Your fine generosity ceased . My Lord, if my errors have degraded me in Your eyes, forgive me due to my reliance on You . My Lord, if the guilts have made me unfit for the generosities of Your kindness, then certitude has awakened me to the generosity of Your kindness . My Lord, if my disregard for preparing to meet You has put me to sleep, my knowledge of Your kind bounties have awakened me . My Lord, if the most severe of Your punishment calls me to hell, the abundance of Your reward invites me to Heaven . My Lord, I ask You and pray to You earnestly, and I desire and request that You pray upon Muhammad and his progeny, and make me one of those who always remember You and never breach Your pledge, who do not neglect to show You their gratitude and do not take Your orders lightly . My Lord, let me be attached to the Light of Your Majestic Glory, so that I may know You alone and deviate away from other than You, and be afraid of You and consider You . O One of generosity and majesty . May the prayers and peace of Allah be upon Muhammad and his pure progeny . O Allah: Do not discipline me with Your punishment, And do not subject me to Your stratagem . From where do I obtain good, O Lord, while none can be found except with You, And how can I find salvation while no one can grant it but You . Neither can the good-doer do without Your support and mercy, nor can the sinful one who offended You and displeased You bypass Your power . O my Lord, O my Lord, O my Lord I knew You by You, and You guided me to You and called me to You, and without You I would not have known what You are . All praise is for Allah whom I call upon and He answers even if I am slow when He calls upon me . All praise is for Allah from whom I request so He gives me even though I was miser when He sought a loan from me . All praise is for Allah whom I call upon with my needs whenever I wish, and I entrust Him with my secrets without an intercessor, and He responds to my need . All praise is for Allah, I do not plead to anyone but Him, and if I did they would not answer me . All praise is for Allah who allowed me to rely on him and thus He favoured me, and He did not allow me to rely on people and thus they humiliate me . All

praise is for Allah who endeared me even though He is not in need of me . All praise is for Allah who treats me with clemency, as if I have no sin . So my Lord is Who I praise the most and He is the most worthy of my praise . O Allah! I find the roads of wishes to You wide open, And the rivers of hope to You vast and running, and the reliance on Your favour accessible for those who wished for You, and the gates of prayer open to those who cry out . And I know that You are in the position to answer for those who ask, and You are in a position to rescue for those who are distressed . And I know that in the eagerness to Your generosity and in the satisfaction with Your judgment, there is compensation for the rejection of the misers and more satisfaction than with what is in the hands of the selfish . And I know that the one who travels toward You is close, and that You do not veil Yourself from Your creation unless their own misdeeds block them from You . And I have sought You for my wish, and have directed to You with my need, and have depended on You for my distress, and I have assigned my supplication to You by praying to You, without the entitlement of Your listening to me and without the obligation of Your forgiveness of me, but because of my trust in Your generosity, and my refuge in Your true promise and my shelter in believing in Your monotheism, and my certitude in knowing You, that I have no other lord but You and I have no god but You alone, there is no partner with You . My Lord, You said, and Your saying is truth and Your promise is honesty, “Ask Allah of His favour, for Allah is Intensely Merciful towards you” , And it is not from Your attributes, O my Master, to command the question and prevent the answer, and You are the Grantor of all bounties on all the people of Your kingdom and the Giver of Your consoling compassion . My Lord! You have brought me up in Your gifts and charity as a young one, and elevated my designation as I grew older . O One who brought me up in this life with His charity, favour and blessings, and indicated to me His forgiveness and generosity in the hereafter . My knowledge, O Master, is my guide to You, and my love for You is my intercessor to You, and I am trusting in my evidence due to Your

guidance, and I am sheltered in my intercessor for Your intercession . I pray to You, O my master, with a tongue that has been paralyzed by its guilt, O my Lord, I confide in You with a heart that has been doomed by its crimes; I pray to You, O my Lord, frightened but wishful, hopeful but fearful . If I contemplate my sins, O my Lord, I become filled with dread . And if I contemplate Your generosity I aspire . So if You forgive, You are the finest in mercy, and if You punish, You are not unjust . My excuse, O Allah in my audacity to ask You, even though I have committed what You hate, is Your benevolence and generosity . And my preparation for my adversity, given my lack of shame is Your compassion and mercy . And I am wishful that my hope will not be disappointed, so fulfil my aspiration and hear my prayer, O The Best who was ever prayed to and the finest who was ever wished from . My hope, O my Master has magnified and my deeds have worsened, so grant me from Your forgiveness by as much as I have hoped, and do not judge me by my worst deeds, for Your generosity is too elevated to punish the sinners, and Your forbearance is too great to recompense the shortcomers . I am, my Master, seeking refuge in Your favour . I am escaping from You toward You, anticipating Your promise to forgive those who possessed good expectations of You Who am I, my Lord, and what is my worth! Provide me with Your favor and grant me charity with Your forgiveness, O my Lord, cover me with Your veil and pardon my reprimand by the generosity of Your face . For if any one today other than You would have known of my sin, I would not have sinned, And if I feared that You may hasten my punishment, I would have avoided sinning, not because You are the most insignificant watcher nor the lightest onlooker, but because You, My Lord, are the finest Concealer and the Wisest of all rulers, and the Most generous of all generous ones . O Concealer of flaws, O Oftforgiver of sins, O Knower of the unseen . You conceal the guilt by Your generosity and You delay the punishment by Your patience . So praise is to You for having known and yet been patient, and having forgiven even though You are capable [of punishment] . And what motivates and gives me the audacity to disobey You is Your patience with me, and what invites me to the lack of shame [from You] is Your concealment of my sins . And what throws me towardsthe actions forbidden by You is my awareness of the capacity of Your mercy

and the greatness of Your forgiveness . O Forbearer, O Generous One, O One who is living and self-subsisting, O Forgiver of sin, O Acceptor of repentance, O Greatest giver of all good, O Ancient in charity, I call upon Your beautiful concealment, I call upon Your abundant pardon, I call upon Your near relief, I call upon Your quick rescue, I call upon Your vast mercy, I call upon Your bountiful gifts, I call upon Your blessed rewards, I call upon Your splendid favors, I call upon Your immense bounty, I call upon Your enormous giving, I call upon Your ancient charity, I call upon Your benevolence, O Most Generous One . By them and by Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad, I seek Your salvation, and by Your compassion, relieve me . O Benevolent, O Creator of beauty, O Benefactor, O Bountiful . I do not rely on our deeds to achieve salvation from Your punishment, rather I trust it to Your favor toward us, for You are the One Worthy of fear and Qualified to grant forgiveness . You initiate Your giving through Your graciousness and You pardon sin with Your generosity, and we do not know what to praise more, is it the beauties that You distribute or the ugly deeds You conceal, or the greatness of what You have granted and fulfilled or the many misfortunes You have averted and illnesses You have cured . O The lover of whomever endeared You! O The delight of the eye of who sought You for refuge and devoted himself to You! You are the well-doer and we are the sinners . So pardon, O my Lord, the ugliness that we have with the beauty that You have, And what ignorance O my Lord, can not be encompassed by Your generosity? And what era is longer than Your patience? And of what significance are our deeds compared with Your rewards? And how can we value deeds with which we face Your generosity? Yet how can sinners despair when they are encompassed by Your vast mercy? O Vast Forgiver, O Extender of both hands with mercy, I swear by Your exalted might, O Master, that if You rebuked me, I would not depart from Your door, and I will not cease to compliment You since I have come to know the knowledge of Your generosity and benevolence, And You are the doer of whatever You desire, You punish whoever You wish, with whatever You wish, and however You wish, and You bestow Your mercy on whoever You wish, with whatever You wish, and however You wish . You are never questioned about Your actions, nor

is there any conflict in Your kingdom, nor is there any partnership in Your command, nor contradiction in Your judgment, and no one can oppose You in Your disposition of affairs . To You belongs all of the creation and command, Indeed Allah, the Most Glorious, is the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds . O my Lord, this is the position of the one who sought refuge in You and allied himself with Your generosity, and became accustomed to Your forbearance and favors, And You are the benevolent whose forgiveness is never strained, neither are Your bounties ever decreasing, nor is Your mercy ever lacking . And we have known with certainty of Your ancient pardon, great bounty and vast mercy . Would You, O Allah, ever fall short of our beliefs or dash our hopes? No never, O Most Generous One, for that is not our belief in You, nor is it what we hope from You . O Allah, we have a great and prolonged hope in You . We have a great expectation from You . We disobeyed You wishing You would conceal our sins . And we prayed to You hoping You would answer us, so fulfill our aspiration, O our Master, for otherwise, we realize what we deserve as a result of our sins, but Your knowledge of us and our knowledge that You will not send us away from You has motivated us to seek You . And even though we are not worthy of Your mercy, You are worthy of bestowing Your generosity on us and on all the sinners due to Your vast compassion . So reward us with the generosity that suits You, and grant us for we are in need of Your bounty . O Most Forgiving! By Your light we were guided, and by Your bounties we became rich, and by Your favors we meet the mornings and evenings . Our sins are between Your Hands and we ask You, O Master, for forgiveness and we hereby repent to You . You endear us with Your gifts and we reward You with sins, Your bounty to us is ever descending, and our evil to You is ever ascending . And from before and until now, Your favored angel still brings You the news of our ugly deeds but that does not prevent You from continuing to surround us with Your grace, and kindly provide us with Your holy blessings . So, praise is to You for how patient You are, how Great you are and how Generous You are as the initiator and eventual Gatherer . Holiest are Your names, And glorified is Your praise, And honorable are Your favors and actions .

You, my Lord, are more vast in bounty and greater in patience and clemency than to judge me according to my wrong doing and fault, So I beg You: Forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness, O my Master, O my Master, O my Master . O Lord! Occupy us with Your remembrance, and guard us from Your wrath, And protect us from Your punishment, And grant us from Your rewards, And reward us from Your bounties, And bestow upon us the pilgrimage to Your house (Ka’ba), and the ability to visit the tomb of Your Prophet, may Your prayers, mercy, forgiveness and satisfaction be upon him and his household progeny, Indeed, You are near and forthcoming with Your answer . And bestow upon us working by Your obedience, and claim our souls while we are on Your path and followers of the way of Your Prophet, may the prayers of Allah be upon him and his family . O Lord! Forgive me and my parents and grant them mercy as they have raised me since I was a youth, reward their good deeds with bounty and reward their sins with forgiveness . O Lord! Forgive the believing men and women, living or dead, and let us follow their path with good deeds . O Lord! Forgive the living or deceased from us, the present and the absent, our male and female, our young and old, our free and our slave . Indeed the antagonists of Allah lied, wandered far astray and incurred a major loss . O Lord! Pray upon Muhammad and his family, and conclude my life with virtue, and resolve what worries me from the affairs of this world and the hereafter, and do not empower over me he who does not treat me with mercy and provide me with Your everlasting protection and do not deprive me of the good things you have graced me with, and confer upon me from Your bounties, vast rewards that are lawful and good . O Lord, guard me with Your safeguarding, And protect me with Your protection, And support me with Your alliance, And grant me the pilgrimage to Your sacred house (Ka’ba) in this year and in every year, and the ability to visit the tomb of Your prophet and the Imams, peace be upon them, and do not deprive me, O Lord, from these honorable places and noble positions . O Lord! Accept my repentance so that I may not disobey You, And inspire me with righteousness and its implementation, And fearing You in the night and the day as long as You let me live, O Allah Lord of the worlds . O Lord! Whenever I said that I was prepared and ready and rose to pray, before Your hands, and

confided in You, You cast sleep upon me when I prayed, and prevented me from confiding in You when I confided . Why is it that whenever I said that my essence had become good, and my presence had come close to the gatherings of the repentant ones, a sin would occur and cause my feet to stumble, and come between me and Your service . O my Master, Maybe You expelled me from Your door, and retired me from Your service, or maybe You observed my underestimating of Your right upon me and thus distanced me, or maybe You saw me turning away and thus You dismissed me, or maybe You found me to be in the place of the liars so You rejected me, or maybe You saw me ungrateful for Your rewards so You deprived me, or maybe You saw my absence from the gatherings of the knowledgeable ones and thus failed me, or maybe You found me among the heedless so You excluded me from Your mercy, or maybe You found me frequenting the gatherings of the unfaithful, so due to my association with them You deserted me, or maybe You did not want to listen to my prayers so You distanced me, or maybe You equated me with my crime and sin, or maybe You punished me for my lack of shame regarding You . So if You forgive, O Lord, You have forgiven the many sinners before me . For Your generosity, O Lord, is too magnanimous to punish the shortcomers, and I am seeking refuge in Your bounty, and I am escaping from You toward You, and anticipating Your promise to pardon those who had good faith concerning You . My Lord! You are too vast in bounty and great in patience to judge me according to my deeds, or to make me stumble with my sin . And who am I, my Master, and what is my worth? Grant me Your benevolence, O my Master! And render me Your pardon, and conceal me with Your protection, and save me from Your chastisement with the generosity of Your face . O Master! I am the young one whom You raised, And I am the ignorant whom You taught, And I am the misled whom You guided, And I am the degraded one whom You elevated, And I am the frightened one whom You secured, And the hungry one whom You fed, And the thirsty whose thirst You quenched, And the naked whom You dressed, And the poor whom You made wealthy, And the weak whom You strengthened, And the humiliated whom You empowered, And the sick whom You cured, And the beggar to whom You

provided charity, And the guilty one whose guilt You concealed, And the wrong-doer whom You aided, And I am the little whom You made significant, And the oppressed whom You supported, And I am the expelled whom You sheltered, I am the one, O Allah, who did not revere You in my seclusion, nor did I consider You in public, I am the possessor of the greatest craftiness, I am the one who was audacious toward His Master, I am the one who disobeyed the Commander of the skies, I am the one who accepted bribes for disobedience toward the Magnificent One, I am the one who when I was forewarned about it, I hastily sought it, I am the one for whom You waited but I did not comprehend, and whose sins You concealed but I did not become ashamed, and I committed sins so I transgressed, and You directed Your gaze away from me but I did not care, but by Your patience, You delayed my punishment, and with Your veil, You concealed my guilt until it was as if You had caused me to be ashamed in front of You . O my Lord! When I disobeyed You, I did not disobey You because I rejected Your divinity, or because I belittled Your command, or that I was challenging Your punishment, or that I underestimated Your forewarning, Yet the mistake has occurred, and my soul enticed me, and I was overcome by my desires, and my misery supported me in it, and Your protective concealment of my sins lured me, For I have disobeyed You and opposed You with my own will, and who would rescue me now from Your retribution, and who would redeem me tomorrow from the hands of Your angels of punishment tomorrow, and with whose rope do I hold on to if You cut off Your rope from me? So what a tragedy it is, what Your book has recorded from my deeds . Indeed, if it was not for my hope for Your generosity and vast mercy as well as Your command that I not despair, I would have despaired whenever I remembered my sins . O the Best to whom a worshipper has ever prayed, and the Foremost from whom anyone has wished . O Lord! In the name of the sanctity of Islam, I beg You, And in the name of the holiness of the Quran I rely upon You, And in the name of my love for the Ummi, Quraishi, Hashimite, Arab, Tohamian, Meccan, Medinan Prophet I seek being nearer to You . So please do not make desolate the serenity of my faith, And please do not allow my recompense the same as of those who worshipped other than You . For indeed there are some who believed only with their tongues so

they may save their lives and they were granted what they wished for, but we have believed in You with our tongues and with our hearts so that You may forgive us, So grant us what we wish for, and establish our hope in You in our hearts, And do not let our hearts go astray after You have guided us, And grant mercy from You, Indeed You are the Utmost Giver . And I swear by Your glory that even if You send me away I will not depart from Your door, and I will not cease to praise You, due to what was inspired in my heart from the knowledge of Your benevolence and vast compassion . To where would a slave go but to his master? To where would a creation seek refuge but to his Creator? O my Lord! Even if You bound me with the chains and deprived me Your flowing stream of favors among the witnesses [of the day of Judgment], And You pointed out my scandals to the eyes of Your worshipers, And You ordered me to hell, And You isolated me from the company of the faithful ones, my hope in You will not cease, and I will not dismiss my assurance of Your forgiveness, and my love for You would not depart from my heart, I do not forget the helping hand You bestowed upon me, and Your concealment of my sins in this world . O my Master! Remove the love of this world from my heart, And unite me with al-Mustafa and his family, Your finest of Your creation and the seal of the prophets, Muhammad, prayers of Allah be upon him and his family, And transfer me to the rank of repentance to You, And help me to cry for myself for I have wasted my life away with procrastination and false hopes, And I have now declined to the rank of those who are hopeless regarding their goodness . So who is of a lower status than me, if I am now transferred in my present condition to a grave that I have not prepared for my recline nor did I line it with good deeds . And why would I not weep as I have no knowledge of my fate and I observe my self deceiving me, and my days eluding me, and the wings of death have flapped near me, So why wouldn’t I cry? I cry because of the exodus of my soul, I cry because of the darkness of my grave, I cry because of the narrowness of my grave, I cry because of my questioning by Munkar and Nakeer^[1], I cry because of my departure from my grave naked, humiliated and carrying my burden on my back,

I look to the right at one time and to the left at another to find that the creation have different concerns than mine, every one of them that day has a concern of his own, some faces are bright, laughing and joyful, while others are dusty, loaded with soot and humility . O Master! I settle my destination, dependence, hope and reliance upon You, And with Your mercy, I cling; You bestow Your mercy on whoever You wish and You guide with Your benevolence whoever You wish, So praise to You for Your purifying of my heart of shirk, And praise to You for releasing my tongue, Is it with this heavy tongue of mine that I can thank You or is it with the utmost effort in my good deeds that I can please You? And what is the value of my tongue, O Lord, in regards to thanking You? And what is the value of my good deeds in regards to Your gifts and charity toward me? O my Lord! Indeed Your generosity has expanded my hope, And Your gratitude has accepted my deed . O my Master! To You I direct my aim, fear, and aspirations . And my hope has driven me to You, I travel toward You O Mighty One and my desires expand in that which You possess, and my ultimate hope and fear rest upon You, And for You, I contemplated Your Love And I reach out my hand to You, And contained my fear with the rope of Your obedience . O my Lord! My heart lived in Your remembrance, and my pain of fright was relieved by supplicating to You . So, O my Lord and my hope, my Ultimate Destination, separate me from my sin that disables me from abiding by Your obedience, For I only ask You due to the ancient hope in You and the great coveting of You which You obligated upon Yourself due to Your compassion and mercy, so the command is Yours, for You are Alone and without partners, and all the creation are Your children and in Your control and everything submits to You . Blessed You are O Lord of the worlds . O my Lord! Bestow Your mercy upon me when my excuses fail and when my tongue ceases to be able to answer You and my intellect subsides upon Your questioning, So O to whom I submit my utmost hope, do not disappoint me when my tragedy intensifies, and do not reject me due to my ignorance, and do not deprive me due to my lack of patience, and provide for me for I am poor, and bestow Your mercy upon me for I am weak . O my Master! Upon You I rest my dependence, destination, hope and reliance, And with Your mercy I cling, And on Your grounds, I con -

clude my journey, And to Your generosity and benevolence I direct my request . O Allah, I commence my prayer, And with You I seek relief from my indigence, And with Your wealth I mend my poverty, And under the shadow of Your pardon, I stand, And to Your generosity and benevolence, I raise my eyesight, And to Your favor, I prolong my vision, So, do not burn me in the hellfire while You are where I place my hope, And, do not let me reside in the abyss for You are indeed the comfort of my eye . O my Master! Do not disappoint my expectation in Your benevolence and known favor because You are my Confidant and Security, And do not deprive me of Your reward for You are Aware of my poverty . O my Lord! If my death is near and my deeds do not bring me nearer to You, then I have made the confession to You of my sins the means of my justification . O my Lord! If You forgivee, then no one is more worthy of forgiving than You, And if You punish, then no one is more just than You . Have mercy upon my enstragement in this world , and upon my plight during death, and upon my solitude in the grave, and upon my loneliness in the grave, and upon the humiliation of my position once I am dispatched for judgment between Your hands, and forgive what is concealed from the humans of my deeds, and prolong for me that with which You veiled me, and have mercy upon me as I lie still on my deathbed, while the hands of my beloved ones surround me, and grant me Your bounty as I am stretched on the washing bed while the benevolent ones of my companions wash me, and bestow Your sympathy upon me as I am carried while my relatives hand over the ends of my coffin, and award me Your generosity when I am finally delivered and left alone in my hole, and have mercy on my enstrangement in this new home, so that I may not be comforted by anyone but You . O my Master! If You entrusted me to myself, I would perish My Master, then from whom do I seek salvation if You would not avert my stumbling? From whom would I seek shelter if I lost Your care in my repose? To whom would I resort if You did not relieve my destitution . My Master! Who will be on my side and who will bestow mercy upon me if You do not? And whose bounties would I anticipate if I lacked Your grants on the day of my indigence? And to where shall I run from my sins when my time ends? My Master! Do not punish me while I am pleading to You! O my Lord! Fulfill my desire and secure my fright, as

my sins are so numerous that due to them, I lost hope except in Your forgiveness . My Master, I ask You for what I do not deserve, and You are the One worthy of fear and qualified to grant forgiveness . So forgive me and by Your consideration, clothe me with a robe that covers my sins that You would forgive for me, so that I would not be questioned about them, You are the One of ancient forgiveness, great pardon and the One who overlooks generously . You, my Lord, are the one who overflows Your giving upon those who does not request from You and upon those who disbelieve in Your Divinity, so what about he who does request from You and had certitude that the creation belongs to You and that the command is Yours, Blessed and Exalted are You O Lord of the worlds . My Master, Your slave is at Your door, he stands between Your hands due to his indigence, he knocks on the door of Your charity by his supplication, so do not turn Your generous face away from me, and accept from me what I say as I have prayed by this dua hoping that You would not reject me, knowing of Your compassion and mercy . My Lord, You are the One who is not impoverished by whoever requests from You, nor are You diminished by what one would take from You . You are as You say and above what we say . O Lord, I ask You for good patience and a near relief, an honest saying and a great reward . I ask You O Lord to give me from everything good, that of which I had known or had not known . I ask You O Lord to give me from the finest of what Your virtuous servants had requested, You are the finest One from whom one can request, and the most Generous of those who give . Grant my request for myself, my family, my parents, my children and my companions and brothers in Allah . Ease my living and manifest my good morals and resolve all my issues, and make me of those whose age You prolong and whose work You improve, and of those upon whom You granted Your blessings and satisfaction, and whom You have given a good life with the everlasting happiness and most excellent dignity and most perfect living . You do whatever You wish and do not do what others wish . O Allah, make me particular in Your mentioning, and do not let any of that with which I draw closer to you at the ends of nights and breaks of dawn be for show or for reputation, nor let it be of arrogance or vanity . Make me of those who are devout to You . O Allah, grant me a vastness in sustenance, And security in my homeland, And

the comfort of the eye in family, finances and offspring, And the continued enjoyment of Your bounties, And bodily health And security in faith, And forever utilize me in Your obedience and that of Prophet Muhammad, peace of Allah upon him and his household, for as long as You advance my age, And compel me to have the biggest share among Your servants in whatever good You caused to descend and that good which descends in the month of Ramadan, on the Night of Power, and what You cause to descend in every year from the mercy that You spread, and good health that You harness, and crises that You deter, and good deeds that You accept, and sins that You overlook . And bestow upon me pilgrimage to Your holy house in this year and every year, And grant me vast sustenance from Your vast bounties, And protect me, O my Master, from misfortune and fulfill on my behalf all my loans and injustices that I committed, so that I may not be harmed by any of them, And preoccupy the hearing and sight of my enemies and the envious ones and those who oppress me, and reward me with victory over them, And comfort my eye, And delight my heart, And reward me with relief and resolution from my misfortune and calamities, And compel any one who wishes me harm from all Your creation, to be beneath my feet, And guard me from the evil of Satan and the evil of the authorities as well as the evil of my wrongdoings, And purify me from all sins, And save me from hellfire with Your pardon, And reward me with paradise by Your mercy . And wed me to the fair ones with Your bounty, And reunite me with Your righteous servants Muhammad and his progeny, the righteous, the virtuous, the pure and the elite, may Your prayers, mercy and blessings be upon them, their bodies, and their souls . O my Lord and my Master! I swear by Your exalted might and majesty that if You call upon me by my sins, I will call upon You by Your mercy, and if You call upon me by my crimes, I will call upon You by Your generosity, and if You cause me to enter to hellfire, I will inform its inmates about my love for You . O my Lord and my Master! If You do not forgive but Your supporters and obedient ones, then to whom do the sinners resort? And if You do not honor but the people of loyalty to You, then from whom do the offenders seek salvation? O my Lord! If You cause me to enter hellfire, it will be a pleasure to Your enemy, but if You cause me to enter paradise, it will be a pleasure

to Your Prophet . And verily, O Allah, I know that the pleasure of Your Prophet is more favorable to You than the pleasure of Your enemy . O my Lord! I ask You to fill my heart with love for You, fear of You, belief in Your book, faith in You, fright from You and longing to You . O One of majesty and favor, endear the love of Your meeting to me and love my meeting, And grant me comfort, relief and honor in Your meeting . O my Lord! Unite me with the virtuous of those who preceded me, And make me of the virtuous of who remained, And lead me to the way of the virtuous ones, and support me against myself with whatever You support Your righteous believers with, And seal my deeds by the best of them, And make my reward from them heaven by Your mercy, And assist me in implementing the virtues that You granted me, And establish me on Your path O Lord! And do not return me to evil from which You rescued me before, O the Lord of the worlds! O my Lord! I ask You to grant me faith that does not cease before I meet You . Prolong my life as long as You allow me to live by this faith and claim my soul as long as You claim it while I am on this faith, and resurrect me as long as You resurrect me on this faith; And purify my heart from pretension, doubt, and seeking reputation through Your religion so that all my deeds are be pure . O my Lord! Grant me insight in Your religion And understanding in Your judgment, And awareness in Your knowledge, And certitude in Your mercy And piety that shields me from committing sin, And enlighten my face with Your light, And let my wishes be for that which You possess, And claim my soul while it is on Your path and on the religion of Your Prophet, prayers of Allah be upon him and his progeny . O my Lord! I seek refuge in You from laziness, failure, misery, cowardliness, miserliness, inattentiveness, cruelty, humility, poverty, indigence and every calamity; and the exorbitant of sins whether they are apparent or concealed, And I seek refuge in You from a self that is never satisfied, and a stomach that is never full, and a heart that is never pious, and a prayer that is not accepted, and a deed that is not beneficial . And I take refuge in You O Lord, to safeguard myself, my religion, my finances, and all that You bestowed upon me, from the evil of the cursed Satan; Indeed, You are the One who hears and knows all things .

O my Lord! Indeed no one shields me from You and I do not find a shelter in other than You, So do not leave with me any deed worthy of Your punishment and do not lead me back into destruction and do not lead me into painful torment . O my Lord! Accept my prayer, renown my remembrance, elevate my degree, And relieve my burden . And do not remember me by my sin, And let the reward of my gatherings, my speech, and my supplication be Your satisfaction and heaven . And grant me, O Lord, all that I have asked of You and increase it with Your bounty; Indeed, You are what I wish for, O Lord of the worlds . O my Lord! You have sent down in Your book that we are to forgive those who committed injustice toward us, and we have committed injustice toward ourselves so forgive us, for You are more worthy of granting forgiveness than we are . And You commanded us not to turn away the poor who knock on our door, and I have come to You poor, so do not turn me away until You grant my request . And You commanded us be charitable toward those whose reins of freedom we hold, and we are Your slaves, so free us from the hellfire . O my Shelter in my indigence! O my salvation in my infliction! In You I take shelter, and from You I seek salvation and refuge, I do not seek refuge from other than You, and I do not request relief from other than You . So relieve me and save me, O One who liberates the captives and forgives the many, accept from me the little I have done, and forgive for me the many [sins] I have committed; Indeed, You are the Intensely Merciful and Oft-forgiving . O my Lord! I ask You to grant me faith of the heart and genuine certitude so that I may establish that nothing will happen to me except for what You have written for me, And grant me satisfaction in what You have apportioned for me in my living, O Most Merciful of the Merciful ones . •