His Supplication on Noble Moral Traits
His Supplication on Noble Moral
Traits and Acts Pleasing to God
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| 1 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
cause my faith to reach the
most perfect faith,
make my certainty the most
excellent certainty,
and take my intention to the
best of intentions
and
my works to the best of works! |
| 2 |
O God,
complete my intention through
Thy gentleness,
rectify my certainty through
what is with Thee,
and set right what is corrupt
in me through Thy power! |
| 3 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
spare me the concerns
which
distract me,
employ me
in
that about which Thou wilt ask me tomorrow,
and let me pass my days
in
that for which Thou hast created me!
Free me from need,
expand
Thy provision toward me,
and
tempt me not with ingratitude!
Exalt me
and
afflict me not with pride!
Make me worship Thee
and
corrupt not my worship with self-admiration!
Let good flow out from my
hands upon the people
and
efface it not by my making them feel obliged!98
Give me the highest moral
traits
and
preserve me from vainglory! |
| 4 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
raise me not a single degree
before the people
without
lowering me its like in myself
and bring about no outward
exaltation for me
without
an inward abasement in myself to the same measure! |
| 5 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and Muhammad's
Household,
give me to enjoy
a
sound guidance
which
I seek not to replace,
a
path of truth
from
which I swerve not,
and
an intention of right conduct
in
which I have no doubts!
Let me live as long as my life
is a free gift in obeying Thee,
but if my life should become a
pasture for Satan,
seize
me to Thyself
before
Thy hatred overtakes me
or
Thy wrath against be becomes firm! |
| 6 |
O God, deposit in me
no quality for which I will be
faulted,
unless
Thou settest it right,
no flaw for which I will be
blamed,
unless
Thou makest it beautiful,
no deficient noble trait,
unless
Thou completest it! |
| 7 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and Muhammad's
Household
and replace for me
the
animosity of the people of hatred
with
love,
the
envy of the people of insolence
with
affection,
the
suspicion of the people of righteousness
with
trust,
the
enmity of those close
with
friendship,
the
disrespect of womb relatives
with
devotion,
the
abandonment of relatives
with
help,
the
attachment of flatterers
with
love set right,
the
rejection of fellows
with
generous friendliness,
and
the bitterness of the fear of wrongdoers
with
the sweetness of security! |
| 8 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
appoint for me
a
hand against him who wrongs me,
a
tongue against him who disputes with me,
and
a victory over him who stubbornly resists me!
Give me
guile
against him who schemes against me,
power
over him who oppresses me,
refutation
of him who reviles me,
and
safety from him who threatens me!
Grant me success to
obey
him who points me straight
and
follow him who guides me right! |
| 9 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household
and point me straight to
resist
him who is dishonest toward me
with
good counsel,
repay
him who separates from me
with
gentle devotion,
reward
him who deprives me
with
free giving,
recompense
him who cuts me off
with
joining,
oppose
him who slanders me
with
excellent mention,
give
thanks for good,
and
shut my eyes to evil! |
| 10 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
adorn me with the adornment of
the righteous,
and clothe me in the ornaments
of the godfearing, through
spreading
justice,
restraining
rage,
quenching
the flame of hate,
bringing
together the people of separation,
correcting
discord,
spreading
about good behaviour,
covering
faults,
mildness
of temper,
lowering
the wing,99
beauty
of conduct,
gravity
of bearing,
agreeableness
in comportment,
precedence
in reaching excellence,
preferring
bounteousness,
refraining
from condemnation,
bestowing
bounty on the undeserving,
speaking
the truth,
though
it be painful,
making
little of the good in my words and deeds,
though
it be much,
and
making much of the evil in my words and deeds,
though
it be little!
Perfect this for me through
lasting
obedience,
holding
fast to the community,
and
rejecting
the
people of innovation
and
those who act in accordance with original opinions! |
| 11 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
appoint for me
Thy
widest provision in my old age
and
Thy strongest strength when I am exhausted,
try me not with
laziness
in worship of Thee,
blindness
toward Thy path,
undertaking
what opposes love for Thee,
joining
with him who has separated himself from Thee,
and
separating from him who has joined himself to Thee! |
| 12 |
O God,
make me
leap
to Thee in times of distress,
ask
from Thee in needs,
and
plead to Thee in misery!
Tempt me not
to
seek help from other than Thee
when
I am distressed,
to
humble myself in asking from someone else
when
I am poor,
or
to plead with someone less than Thee
when
I fear,
for
then I would deserve
Thy
abandonment,
Thy
withholding,
and
Thy turning away,
O
Most Merciful of the merciful! |
| 13 |
O God, make
the
wishing, the doubt, and the envy
which
Satan throws into my heart
a
remembrance of Thy mightiness,
a
reflection upon Thy power,
and
a devising against Thy enemy!
Make
everything he causes to pass over my tongue,
-
the indecent or ugly words,
the
maligning of good repute,
the
false witness,
the
speaking ill of an absent man of faith
or
the reviling of one present,
and
all things similar - a speech in praise of Thee,
a
pursual of eulogizing Thee,
an
excursion in magnifying Thee,
a
thanksgiving for Thy favour,
an
acknowledgement of Thy beneficence,
and
an enumeration of Thy kindnesses! |
| 14 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
let me not be wronged
while
Thou canst repel from me,
let me not do wrong
while
Thou art powerful over holding me back,
let me not be misguided
while
Thou art able to guide me,
let me not be poor
while
with Thee is my plenty,
let me not be insolent
while
from Thee comes my wealth! |
| 15 |
O God,
I come to Thy forgiveness,
I go straight to Thy pardon,
I yearn for Thy forbearance,
and
I trust in Thy bounty,
but there is nothing with me
to
make me warrant Thy forgiveness,
nothing in my works
to
make me merit Thy pardon,
and nothing on my behalf
after
I judge my soul
but
Thy bounty,
so bless Muhammad and his
Household
and
bestow Thy bounty upon me! |
| 16 |
O God,
make my speech be guidance,
inspire me with reverential
fear,
give me success in that which
is most pure,
and employ me in what is most
pleasing to Thee! |
| 17 |
O God,
let me tread the most
exemplary path
and make me live and die in
Thy creed! |
| 18 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
give me to enjoy moderation,
make me into one of
the
people of right behaviour,
the
proofs of right conduct,
and
the servants of righteousness,
and provide me with
triumph
at the place of Return100
and
safety from the Ambush!101 |
| 19 |
O God,
take to Thyself from my soul
what
will purify it
and leave for my soul that of
my soul
that
will set it right,
for my soul will perish
unless
Thou preservest it! |
| 20 |
O God,
Thou art my stores when I
sorrow,
Thou
art my recourse when I am deprived,
from Thee I seek aid when
troubled
and
with Thee is
a
substitute for everything gone by,
a
correction for everything corrupted,
and
a change from everything Thou disapprovest.
So show kindness to me with
well-being
before affliction,
wealth
before asking,
right conduct before misguidance;
suffice me against the burden
of shame toward the servants,
give me security on the Day of
Return,
and grant me excellent right
guidance! |
| 21 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
repel from me through Thy
gentleness,
feed me through Thy favour,
set me right through Thy
generosity,
heal me through Thy
benefaction,
shade me in Thy shelter,
wrap me in Thy good pleasure,
and give me success to reach
the
most guided of affairs when affairs confuse me,
the
purest of works when works seem similar,
and
the most pleasing to Thee of creeds when creeds conflict! |
| 22 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
crown me with sufficiency,
place in me excellent
guardianship,102
give me to guide correctly,
tempt me not with plenty,
grant me excellent ease,
make not my life toil and
trouble,
and refuse not my supplication
in rejection,
for
I make none rival to Thee
and
I supplicate none with Thee as equal! |
| 23 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
hold me back from prodigality,
fortify my provision against
ruin,
increase my possessions
through blessing them,
and set me upon the path of
guidance
through
piety in what I spend! |
| 24 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
spare me the burden of
earning,
and provide for me without
reckoning,
lest
I be distracted from Thy worship through seeking
and
carry the load of earning's ill results! |
| 25 |
O God,
bestow upon me what I seek
through
Thy power
and grant me sanctuary from
what I fear
through
Thy might! |
| 26 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
save my face through ease,
and demean not my dignity
through neediness,
lest
I seek provision from those whom Thou hast provided
and
asks for bestowal from the worst of Thy creatures!
Then I would be tried
by praising him who gave to me
and
afflicted
with
blaming him who held back from me,
while
Thou - not they - art patron of giving and holding back. |
| 27 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household
and provide me with
soundness
in worship,
detachment
in renunciation,
knowledge
put into action,
and
abstinence in measure! |
| 28 |
O God,
seal my term with Thy pardon,
verify my expectation in
hoping for Thy mercy,
smooth my paths to reach Thy
good pleasure,
and make my works good in all
my states! |
| 29 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
incite me to remember Thee
in
times of heedlessness,
employ me in Thy obedience
in
days of disregard,
open a smooth road for me
to
Thy love,
and complete for me thereby
the good
of
this world and the next! |
| 30 |
O God,
and bless Muhammad and his
Household
the
best Thou hast blessed
any
of Thy creatures before him
and
wilt bless
any
of them after him,
and give to us in this World
good,
and in the next world good,
and protect me
through
Thy mercy
from
the chastisement of the Fire!103 |
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