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In
the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
O
God, Thou hast helped me complete Thy Book,
which Thou sent down as a
light and appointed as a guardian over every book Thou hast sent down,
preferring it over every narrative which Thou hast recounted,
a separator, through which Thou hast separated Thy lawful from Thy
unlawful,
a Qur'an, through which Thou hast made plain the approaches
to Thy ordinances,
a book, which Thou hast distinguished very
distinctly for Thy servants,
a revelation, which Thou hast sent down,
a sending down, upon Thy Prophet Muhammad (Thy blessings be upon him
and his Household).
Thou appointed it a light through following which
we may be guided from the shadows of error and ignorance,
a healing
for him who turns ear toward hearing it with the understanding of
attestation,
a just balance whose tongue does not incline away from
truth,
a light of guidance whose proof is not extinguished before the
witnesses,
and a guidepost of deliverance, so that he who repairs
straightway to its prescription will not go astray
and he who clings
to its preservation's handhold will not be touched by the hands of
disasters.
O God, since Thou hast given us help to recite it
and made
smooth the roughness of our tongues through the beauty of its
expression,
place us among those who observe it as it should be
observed,
serve Thee by adhering in submission to the firm text of its
verses,
and seek refuge in admitting both its ambiguous parts and the
elucidations of its clear signs!
O
God, Thou sent it down upon Thy
Prophet Muhammad (God bless him and his household) in summary form,
Thou inspired him with the science of its wonders to complement
it,
Thou made us the heirs of its knowledge as interpreters,
Thou made
us to surpass him who is ignorant of its knowledge,
and Thou gave us
strength over it to raise us above those not able to carry it.
O God,
just as Thou hast appointed our hearts as its carriers
and made known
to us through Thy mercy its nobility and excellence,
so also bless
Muhammad, its preacher, and his Household, its guardians,
and place us
among those who confess that it has come from Thee,
lest doubt about
attesting to it assail us, or deviation from its straightforward path
shake us!
O God, bless Muhammad and his Household and make us one of
those who hold fast to its cord,
seek haven from its ambiguities in
its fortified stronghold,
rest in the shadow of its wing, find
guidance in the brightness of its morning,
follow the shining of its
disclosure, acquire light from its lamp, and beg not guidance from any
other!
O God, just as through it Thou hast set up Muhammad as a
guidepost to point to Thee
and through his Household Thou hast made
clear Thy good pleasure's roads to Thee,
so also bless Muhammad and
his Household and make the Qur'an our mediation to the noblest
stations of Thy honour,
a ladder by which we may climb to the place of
safety,
a cause for our being repaid with deliverance at the Plain of
Resurrection,
and a means whereby we may reach the bliss of the House
of Permanence!
O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, lessen for us
through the Qur'an the weight of heavy sins,
give to us the excellent
qualities of the pious,
and make us follow the tracks of those who
stood before Thee in the watches of the night and the ends of the day,
such that Thou purifiest us from every defilement through its
purification
and makest us to follow the tracks of those who have
taken illumination from its light
and whom expectation has not
distracted from works, cutting them off through its delusions'
deceptions!
O God, bless Muhammad and his Household and appoint the
Qur'an for us an intimate in the shadows of nights
and a guardian
against the instigations of Satan and confusing thoughts,
for our feet
an obstruction from passing to acts of disobedience,
for our tongues a
silencer without blight preventing a plunge into falsehood,
for our
limbs a restrainer from committing sins,
and for the scrutiny of
heedfulness rolled up in heedlessness an unroller,
such that Thou
attachest to our hearts the understanding of the Qur'an's wonders and
its restraining similitudes
which immovable mountains in all their
solidity were too weak to carry!
O God, bless Muhammad and his
Household and through the Qur'an make permanent the rightness of our
outward selves,
veil the ideas of confusing thoughts from the
soundness of our innermost minds,
wash away the dirt of our hearts and
the ties of our heavy sins,
gather our scattered affairs, quench the
thirst of our burning heat in the standing place of the presentation
to Thee,
and clothe us in the robes of security on the Day of the
Greatest Terror at our uprising!
O God, bless Muhammad and his
Household and through the Qur'an redress our lack - our destitution in
poverty -
drive toward us the comforts of life and an abundance of
plentiful provisions,
turn aside blameworthy character traits and base
moral qualities,
and preserve us from the pit of unbelief and the
motives for hypocrisy,
such that the Qur'an may be for us at the
resurrection a leader to Thy good pleasure and Thy gardens,
for us in
this world a protector against Thy displeasure and transgressing Thy
bounds
and for what is with Thee a witness by its declaring lawful the
lawful and its declaring unlawful the unlawful!
O God, bless Muhammad
and his Household and through the Qur'an make easy for our souls at
death
the distress of the driving, the effort of the moaning, and the
succession of the rattling,
when souls reach the throats and it is
said, 'Where is the enchanter?';
when the angel of death discloses
himself to seize them from behind the veils of unseen things,
letting
loose at them from the bow of destinies the arrows of the terror of
lonesome separation,
and mixing for them from sudden death a cup
poisoned to the taste;
and when departure and release for the
hereafter come close to us,
works become collars around the necks,
and
the graves become the haven until the appointed time of the Day of
Encounter!
O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,
make blessed for
us the arrival at the house of decay and the drawn out residence
between the layers of the earth,
appoint the graves, after separation
from this world, the best of our waystations,
make roomy for us
through Thy mercy the narrowness of our tombs,
and disgrace us not
among those present at the Resurrection through our ruinous sins!
Through the Qur'an have mercy upon the lowliness of our station at the
standing place of presentation to Thee,
make firm the slips of our
feet during the shaking of the bridge across hell on the day of
passage over it,
illuminate the darkness of our graves before the
Uprising,
and deliver us from every distress on the Day of
Resurrection
and from the hardships of terrors on the Day of Disaster!
Whiten our faces on the day when the faces of wrongdoers are blackened
during the Day of Regret and Remorse,
appoint love for us in the
breasts of the faithful, and make not life for us troublesome!
O God,
bless Muhammad, Thy servant and Thy messenger, just as He delivered
Thy message,
executed Thy command and counselled Thy servants!
O God,
on the Day of Resurrection make our Prophet (Thy blessings be upon him
and his Household)
the nearest of the prophets to Thee in seat, the
ablest of them before Thee with intercession,
the greatest of them
with Thee in measure, and the most eminent of them with Thee in rank!
O God, bless Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad, ennoble his
edifice, magnify his proof,
make weighty his balance, accept his
intercession, bring near his mediation, whiten his face, complete his
light,
and raise his degree!
Make us live according to his
Sunna, make
us die in his creed, take us on his road,
make us travel his path,
place us among the people who obey him, muster us in his band,
lead us
to up his pool, and give us to drink of his cup!
And bless Muhammad
and his Household, with a blessing through which Thou wilt take him to
the most excellent of Thy good, Thy bounty, and Thy generosity for
which he hopes!
Thou art Possessor of boundless mercy and generous
bounty.
O God, repay him for Thy messages which he delivered, Thy
signs which he passed on,
the good counsel he gave to Thy servants,
and the struggle he undertook in Thy way, with the best Thou hast
repaid any of Thy angels brought nigh and Thy prophets sent out and
chosen!
And upon him and his Household, the good, the pure, be peace,
God's mercy, and His blessings!
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