| Peace be on you, O the Apostle of Allah. Peace be on you,  O the chosen one of Allah  Peace be on you, O the trustee of Allah.  Peace be on the one whom Allah selected and distinguished an  preferred from the whole of mankind…..  Peace be on you, O the friend of Allah till the time the night  remains dark and gloomy and the day bright and radiant.  Peace be on you till the time the silent one remains silent and  the eloquent continues to utter and the star continues to give light and the  mercy of Allah and His Blessings be on you.  Peace be on our master, the leader of the faithful,  Ali son of Abu Talib, the possessor of precedence and virtues and  esteem and the destroyer of magnanimous armies, the severe in retribution,  esteemed in strength, firm in foundation, the one who will provide water to the  believers in goblets from the Pond of the Apostle, the powerful, the  trustworthy.  Peace be on the possessor of intelligence and virtue and bounties  and honor and bestowal.  Peace be on the knight of the believers and the lion of the  monotheists and the killer of the polytheists and the vicegerent of the Apostle  of the Lord of the Universe and the Mercy of Allah and His blessings.  Peace be on the one whom Allah aided though Jibraeel and assisted  through Meekaeel and whom He has made proximate to Him in both the worlds and  has presented him with everything which smoothens the eyes and blessings of  Allah be on him and his pure progeny and his noble sons and on the  rightly-guided leaders. Those who ordained the good and forbade the evil, have  made prayers obligatory upon us and ordered us to give the poor-due and  introduced to us the fasts of the month of Ramadan and the recitation of the  Holy Quran.  Peace be on you, O the chief of the believers and the leader of  the religion and the guide of those with radiant foreheads.  Peace be on you, O the door of Allah.  Peace be on you, O the ever-vigilant eye of Allah and His  stretched-out hands and His retaining ear and His far-reaching wisdom and His  abundant bounty and His branded branded chastisement…  Peace be on the distributor of Paradise and Hell.  Peace be on the bounty of Allah upon the righteous and His  punishment upon the debauchers.  Peace be on the leader of the pious, the outstanding one.  Peace be on the brother of the Apostle of Allah and his cousin and  his son-in law and the one created from the same clay as him.  Peace be on the eternal root and the honored branch.  Peace be on the fruit  Peace be on Abul Hasan, Ali.  Peace be on the tree of Tuba and the lote-tree (in the seventh  heaven).  Peace be on Adam, the chosen one of Allah and on Nooh, the Prophet  of Allah and on Ibrahim the friend of Allah and on Moosa, the one who conversed  with Allah and on Isa, the spirit of Allah and on Mohammad, the dear one of  Allah and those who lived between them from the Prophets and the truthful ones  and the martyrs and the righteous ones and they are the best of friends. .. Peace be on the light of the lights and on the progeny of the pure  ones and the pillars of the righteous ones.  Peace be on the father of the reverent leaders  Peace be on the strong rope of Allah and His firm side and the  Mercy of Allah and His Blessings  Peace be on the trustee of Allah in His earth and His Caliph and  the one who judges by His commands and is upright by His religion and utters by  His wisdom and acts upon His Book, the brother of the Apostle and the husband  of the immaculate (Fatemah), and the ever-drawn sword of Allah.  Peace be on the possessor of the clear proofs and the evident  signs and the overwhelming miracles and the rescuers from perils, the one whom  Allah has mentioned in the clear verses. Then He, the Exalted, said: And surely  he is near Us, in the mother of the Book as the high (Ali), the wise. Peace be  on the contended name of Allah, his radiant visage and His elevated side and  the Mercy of Allah and His Blessings (be on you.). … Peace be on the Proofs of Allah and His Vicegerents and the chosen  ones of Allah and His notables and His sincere ones and His trustees and the  mercy of Allah and His Blessings (be upon you). I have come to you, O my  master, O the trustee of Allah and His Proof as a visitor, cognizant of your  right, a friend of your friends and an enemy of your enemies. I seek proximity  to Allah through your visitation, then intercede for me near Allah, my Lord and  your Lord for my deliverance from Hell-fire and the fulfillment of my wishes,  those of this world as well as the hereafter.  Then touch the shrine with his body, kiss it and recite: Salutation of Allah and salutations of His proximate angels and of  those  who submit by their hearts be to you O the command of the faithful,  and of  those who extoll your virtues and bear witness that you are  truthful,  trustworthy and testify unto you and the mercy of Allah and His  blessings  be on you. I bear witness that you are pure and blemishless and  purified  from a pure, chaste and immaculate lineage. I bear witness for  you, O the  representative of Allah and that of His Apostle with conveyance  and  observance (regarding the message) and I bear witness that you are  side of  Allah and His door and that you are a beloved of Allah and His  visage  through which He is approached and that you are the way of Allah  and that  you are the servant of Allah and the brother of His Apostle, peace  be on  him and his progeny. I come to you, seeking proximity with Allah  the  Honored, the Exalted, by your visitation, yearning for your  intercession, I  desire, by your intercession, my deliverance from Hell-fire, I  seek your  refuge from Hell-fire running away from my sins which I have  loaded on  my back. I came to you fearful (on account of my actions) but  hopeful of  mercy from my Lord, I come to you, seeking your intercession, O my  master, and I seek proximity near Allah through you so that, on  account of  you, He may fulfill my desires. Then, do intercede for me, O the  commander  of the faithful towards Allah. For surely I am the servant of  Allah and your  friend and your visitor and you have a famed status near Allah and  an  esteemed position and a lofty status and an accepted intercession.  O Allah!  Bless Mohammad and the progeny of Mohammad and bless the  commander of the faithful. Your contented servant and Your most  loyal  trustee and Your strong rope and Your lofty hand and Your elevated  side  and Your best word, and Your Proof upon mankind and Your greatest  testifier and the leader of the vicegerents and the pillar of the  representatives and the support of the chosen ounces, the  commander of  the faithful and the leader of religion and the guide of the  righteous and the  chief of the sincere ones, the protected one from mistakes and  free from  errors and purified from any defect and cleansed from any doubts,  the  brother of Your Prophet and the vicegerent of Your Apostle, the  one who  slept in his bed (on the night of migration)  and was ready to sacrifice his own life for him .and remover of  calamites  that befell him. The one whom you have made as a sword for his  prophethood and a sign for his Apostleship and a witness upon his  nation  and an indicator towards his proof and the bearer of his standard  and the  protector of his life and the guide for his nation and hand for  his strength,  and the crown for his head and the door for his secrets and the  key to his  victory so much so that he destroyed the armies of polytheism by  Your  permission and ruined the forces of disbelief by Your command and  sacrificed his life in the satisfaction of Your Apostle and he  endowed it in  his obediences. Then bless him, O Allah, with an everlasting and  perpetual  blessing….   The recite: Peace be on you, O the representative of Allah and the piercing  star and  the continuous light, O the progeny of the pure, O the secret of  Allah,  surely between me and Allah are my sins which have burdened my  back  and they cannot be removed except by Your satisfaction. Then, by  the right  of the One who has made you the master of His secrets, and has  trusted to  you, the affairs of His creation, be any intercessor in front of  Allah and my  protection from Hell-fire and my aid in the face of the perils of  the time, for  surely I am the servant of Allah and your friend and your visitor,  may Allah  bless you. … Recite six rak’at prayers and supplicate to Allah and say: Peace be on you O the commander of the faithful Upon you be  salutation from my side till the times I exist and the night and the day exist.  Then point towards the grave of Imam Husayn (a.s.) and say: Peace be on you, O Abu Abdullah  Peace be on you, O the son of the Apostle of Allah, I come to you as a visitor and I implore Allah my Lord and your  Lord and I turn towards Allah through you and I seek your intercession in front  of Allah fro the fulfillment of these needs of mine.
 Then recite this supplication: O Allah, O Allah, O Allah! O the responder to the call of the  distressed ones  and O the remover of troubles of the afflicted ones, expend me by  the fulfillment of my desire and suffice for me in whatever causes me  grief from  my affairs of this world and the hereafter, O the most merciful of  all those  who show mercy. ..     Turn towards the shrine of Ameerul Momineen (a.s.) and say: Peace be on you, O the commander of the faithful and peace be on  Abu Abdullah, Husayn till the time I exist and the night and the  day exist  and may Allah not make this my last visitation to you and may He  not  cause separation between me and you. … |