O Allah, I take refuge in You from everything other than You.
O Allah, You are the All-great, Greater than everything… O Allah, do not take away from me the best of what You have given me and do not try me with what You have withheld from me. O Allah, I ask You the best of what You have bestowed on Your creatures of family, wealth, children, belief, security and a beneficial child, neither harmful nor injurious. O Allah, I am needy of You and fearful of You and seek Your protection. O Allah, do not change my name or alter my body, do not make distressing my affliction and do not let trial upon trial pursue me. O Allah, I take refuge in You from wealth that leads to inordinate disobedience, desires that cause destruction and actions that cause disgrace. O Allah, forgive my sins, accept my repentance, manifest my testimony, veil my defects and make Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, the chosen ones, my guardians, asking forgiveness for me. O Allah, I take refuge in You from saying a word in obedience to You by which I desire other than Your Countenance. O Allah, I take refuge in You from anyone other than me being more fortunate in what You have given me… O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the evil of the Shaytan, from the evil of the ruler and from the evil of what the pens write; I ask You for virtuous action, a happy life and continual sustenance. O Allah, You have recorded the sins, have knowledge of the secrets and intervene between the hearts. Hearts are inclined towards You, the secret is manifest before You, And Your only command to a thing, when You will it, is to say to it “Be”and it is (ref. 16:40).
O Allah, I ask You by Your Mercy to enter obedience to You into every member of my body so that I act according to it, then do not remove it from me ever. O Allah, I ask You to remove disobedience to You from all members of my body, by Your Mercy, so that I forsake it, and then do not return it to me ever. O Allah, You are Very Forgiving and You love forgiveness, so forgive me. O Allah, You were, and there was nothing perceptible before You, nor will be after You. You are “ … the Ever-living, the Self-subsisting” (2:255); The eyes sleep and the stars set, but slumber seizes You not, neither sleep (ref. 2:255). Bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad and remove my anxiety and sorrow, make for me a repose and a release from every anxiety that disquiets me, and confirm hope of You in my heart so that You turn me away from hope in mankind and in anyone other than You, so that my trust is only in You… O Allah, do not return me into the depths of heedlessness, neither seize me (for punishment) little by little (by continuance of favour), nor record me among the neglectful. O Allah, I take refuge in You from misleading Your servants and being in doubt about Your answer. O Allah, I have committed sins which Your Book has numbered, and which You encompass in knowledge and with which Your Knowledge is subtly acquainted; I am the sinful wrong-doer, and You are the Gracious, Forgiving Lord. I petition You for forgiveness and repentance and I seek Your forgiveness for what I have committed in the past, therefore, pardon me and forgive me my past sins; “… Surely You trun and are All-compassionate” (2:128). O Allah, You are more worthy of having mercy on me than all others, so have mercy on me and do not give authority over me in this world and the Hereafter to one who does not have mercy on me. O Allah, do not make the hidden actions that You have veiled for me by Your Generosity a means of drawing me in (for punishment) gradually (by continuance of favour), in order to seize me on the Day of Judgement and disgrace me by that before the gathering of people. Pardon me in both abodes, O my Lord; surely You are “ .. All-forgiving, All-compassionate” (2:173). O Allah, if I am not worthy of attaining Your Mercy then Your Mercy is worthy of reaching me and encompassing me, for it encompasses all things and I am a thing; therefore let Your Mercy encompass me, O Most merciful of the merciful, O Allah, even if You have bestowed that on servants who were obedient to You in what You commanded them, and strove for You in that for which You created them – they did not attain that except through You and none directed them to it but You; Your Mercy to them preceded their obedience to You, O Most merciful of the merciful… O Allah, so confer on me, my Lord, my Master, my God, my Sanctuary, my Refuge, my Strength, my Restorer, my Creator and my Sustainer, what You have conferred on them, direct me to what You have directed them, and have mercy on me as You have had mercy on them, a consolidated, complete, comprehensive Mercy, O Most merciful of the merciful. O One Whom hearing (one person) does not occupy from hearing (another), O One to Whom questioners do not attribute mistakes, O One Who is not vexed by the importuning of petitioners, give me to taste the coolness of Your Pardon and the sweetness of Your remembrance and Mercy. O Allah, I ask You forgiveness for that from which I repented to You, and then returned to. I ask You forgiveness for the blessings which You have bestowed on me through which I gained strength to disobey You. I ask You forgiveness for every affair through which I desired Your Countenance, then incorporated in it what was not for You. I ask You forgiveness for what I promised You from myself, then broke my promise to You… I ask You forgiveness for what desire called me to, in yielding to the permission that I had granted it, among those things that were forbidden by You. I ask You forgiveness for sins of which none have knowledge but You, and which nothing but Your Forbearance and Pardon can encompass. I ask You forgiveness for every oath I have violated before You. O “ …. Possessor of Majesty and Honour” (55:78)! O One who has made Himself known to me, do not occupy me with other than You, and entrust me to none but You; make me sufficient through You from every creature other than You, O Most merciful of the merciful, and may Allah bless Muhammad and his family, the pure. ….. |