Al-Sahifa e Alaviya

Supplication 153

In the name of Allah the Beneficent the Merciful.

 O Allah! Bless Mohammed and his progeny, and expand my chest for Islam, and bless me with Iman, and save me from the torment of hell-fire. O Allah! O Lord! O Lord! O Lord! O the Holy! O Holy! I beseech You with Your sublime name. There is no God but He, the Real, Manifest, Ever-living, Self-subsisting, neither slumber nor sleep seizes Him. His it is whatsoever is in the Heavens and whatsoever is in the Earth;

who is he that can intercede with Him save with His permission. He knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they cannot comprehend anything out of His knowledge, save that which He wills.

His Throne extends over the Heavens and the earth, and the preservation of them both, tires Him not. And he is the Most High and the Most Great.

Bless Mohammed and his Progeny among those of the ancient period, and bless Mohammed and his Progeny among those of the later period, and bless Mohammed and his Progeny before the commencement of everything and bless Mohammed and his Progeny at the end of everything,

and bless Mohammed and his Progeny during the day when it shines, and bless Mohammed and his Progeny in the Hereafter and in the world, and grant me my requests both in the Hereafter and in the world.

O the Ever-living! When no living being will exist. O the Ever-living!  When there was no living being existing. O the Ever-living! There is no deity by You. O the Ever-living!

O the Self-subsisting! In the name of Your Mercy, I seek help from You, so kindly succour me and improve my condition and leave me not alone to myself, even for a wink of an eye. All praise is Allah's,

the Lord of the Worlds, the Beneficent, the Merciful. There is no associate with You. O my Lord! You are Merciful towards me. I beseech You,

O my Lord! In the name of that with which Your Throne carries the Might of Your Glory, do with me what befits You, and not in accordance with my entitlement, for You are Worthy to be feared, and Worthy You are for seeking refuge. O Allah! I praise You, and with continue praise You forever with fresh praises, and I rely on You alone, and seek forgiveness only from You.

And I bear witness that there is no God save you. May my life end with such testifying, and so may I meet my Lord, and enter the grave with this testifying, and remain in seclusion with such testifying. O Allah! I beseech You for the ability to perform virtuous deed, and abstain from evil deeds, and to love towards the poor. Forgive me and be compassionate towards me.

And You intend to involve any people with afflictions or trail, kindly protect me from it and from every trial. And I request You to bestow upon me love towards You, and love towards those whom You love, and his love of him whose love brings me near Your love.

And I ask You to show me the way to refrain from my sins and the way towards virtue.

O Allah! I am one of Your creation and there are rights on me due to Your creation. And between me and You, there are rights on me due to You, but I am sinful.

O Allah! Make Your creatures pleased with me, regarding their rights over me, and forgive for all the sins committed unto You. Bestow on me the god You may like to take away from me.

If You bestow not, the same will not be available with me. You created me as You pleased, now make me such that You love.

Forgive us and have mercy on us. Relent our sins, and accept our deeds, and cause us to enter paradise, and save us from the fir, and improve our life concessions. O Allah! Bless Mohammed,

the Ummir Prophet, as often the number of people who invoke Your Blessings for him, and also as often as the number of those who do not invoke Your Blessings for him. Forgive us, have mercy on us, show kindness to us,

and accept our deeds. Verily, You are Oft-forgiving and Merciful. O Allah! the Lord of the sacred House, the Lord of Rukn and Maqaam, the Lord of Mash'aril Haraam, and the Lord of Hill and Harame, convey to the soul of Mohammed, Your Prophet, our greetings.

O Allah! the Lord seven oft-repeated verses (Sura-e-Hamd), and the glorious Quran,

the Lord of Jibraeel, the Lord of Michaeel, the Lord of Israfee, the Lord of all the Angles and all the Creations! Bless Mohammed and his Progeny, and fulfil these requests of mine. O Allah! I beseech You, o the Lord of seven Heavens!

O the Lord of seven earths, and of what is in them and in between them. And I beseech you in the name of Yours with which You bestow sustenance to the living, and with which Your know the measurement of the oceans and the reckoning of the sand particles, and through which You cause death to the living,

and through which You give life to the dead and through which You honour the disgraced, and through which You disgrace the honoured people, and through which You do what You intend, and through which You command what You intend, and through which You say to a thing "be" and there it is.

O Allah! I beseech You with Your most sublime name, You fulfil the needs of the seekers when they request You with that name, and You respond to the call of those who invoke You with it,

and You afford protection to the seekers of protection when they seek protection with it, and wen those in distress call You with it, You free them from their agony,

and You accept the intercession of those interceding with You through that name, and You rescue those who seek help from You through that name, and bestow comforts on them.

And when the aggrieved calls at You through that name, You listen to their calls, and succour them, and when the repentants present themselves before You with that name, You accept their penitence.

I therefore beseech You with that name, O my Master and Lord! O my Allah! O the Ever-living! O the Self-subsisting! O my Hope! O my Shelter! O my Treasure! O my Store!

O the Protection for me in my Faith, world and Hereafter! With that mighty and most sublime name of Yours, I invoke You for my sins which none can forgive save You, and for my grief which none can allay save You,  and for my sins where by I disobeyed You, and at the time of committing them, I felt no shame before You.

Here I come before You as miscreant and sinner with earth straitened for me despite all its extensiveness, and with my faculty of discernment lost, and fullyware that there is no escape for protection anywhere save towards You, I am therefore before You,

fully surrounded by sins as destitute and needy, and I find none to forgive my sins save You, and none to repair my loss save You,

and I utter what was uttered by Your bondsman Yunus when You caught him in the darkness, with the hope that be forgiven and freed by You from the sins. There is no God save You. Glory be To You. Verily,

I was of the unjust ones. With Your greatest name to accept my prayer, and bestow upon me my needs, and my aims, and hasten for me a period of ease with perfect bounties, best of comforts, plenty of sustenance, and best of residence, and keep me happy by the ever-flowing bounties.

O Allah! Grant me ability to offer my thanks to You for what You have give me, and let this continue for the period You keep me alive, and forgive my sins,

me errors, my lavishment, and my crimes, when You take me away from this world, let worldly bounties coalesce with the bounties of the Hereafter. O Allah! Under Your control is the destination of the night and day, heavens and Earth, sun and moon, and so also under Your control is virtue and vice.

O Allah! so please bless me in my faith, world, Hereafter and in all my affairs. O Allah! Your promise is true, and so is our attendance before You, there is no escape from it.

(Request Allah for the fulfillment of your needs.) O Allah! You have taken the responsibility on Yourself to provide me and every living creature with livelihood.

O the Best to be invoked! O the Best to seek from! O the Most Liberal Bestower! O the Best Centre of hopes! So kindly increase sustenance for me and my family.

O Allah! I beseech You to write in the book of Your predestination, and decree of inevitable and wise affairs which You decide in the Night of Measure (Lailatul Qadr), and which neither could be reversed nor could be changed, my name as one of the pilgrims of Your sacred House,

whose performances of the Pilgrim rites are accepted, their efforts are appreciated, their sins are forgiven, their misdeeds are erased, who have plenty of livelihood, their bodies are healthy, and their fears are allayed, and prolong my life, increase my sustenance, and bestow on me mental peace affairs of the world and of the Hereafter,

which worry me presently and those to worry me in future, and which worry my relatives, near or far. Verily, You are Most Generous, Benevolent, Affectionate and Merciful.

O the Creator! Existing prior to the existence of everything, eyes sleep, the stars set down, but You are ever-living, Self-subsisting, neither slumber nor sleep overtakes You. Verily, You are subtle and All-aware. There is no might and power but of Allah the High, the Sublime. All praise be for Allah,

the Lord of the Worlds! Bless Mohammed and his pure, purified, chosen and virtuous Progeny,

and greet then worthy greetings.