His Supplication for the People of the Frontiers |
| 1 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
fortify the frontiers of the
Muslims through Thy might,
support their defenders
through Thy strength,
and lavish upon them gifts
through Thy wealth! |
| 2 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
increase their number,
hone their weapons,
guard their territory,
defend their midst,
unite their throng,
arrange their affair,
send them supplies in a steady
string,
undertake Thyself to suffice
them with provisions,
support them with victory,
help them with patience,
and give them subtlety in
guile!122 |
| 3 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
give them the knowledge of
that of which they are ignorant,
teach them what they do not
know,
and show them what they do not
see! |
| 4 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household,
make them forget when they
meet the enemy
to remember this cheating and delusive world of theirs,
erase from their hearts the
thought of enchanting possessions,
place the Garden before their
eyes,
and display to their sight
that part of it
which Thou hast prepared for them
- the homes of everlastingness and mansions of honour,
the beautiful houris,
the rivers gushing forth with all sorts of drinks,
the
trees hanging, low with all kinds of fruits -
lest any of them think of
turning his back
or suggest to himself to flee
his opponent! |
| 5 |
O God,
defeat their enemy through
that,
trim their nails from them,
separate them from their
weapons,
pull out the firm ties from
their hearts,
keep them far away from their
stores,
bewilder them in their roads,
turn them astray from their
direction,
cut off reinforcements from
them,
chop them down in numbers,
fill their hearts with terror,
hold back their hands from
stretching forth,
tie back their tongues from
speaking,
scatter by them the ones
behind them123
make them a lesson for those
beyond them,
and through their degradation
cut
off the hopes of those who come after them! |
| 6 |
O God,
make the wombs of their women
barren,
dry up the loins of their men,
cut off the breeding of their
mounts and their cattle,
and permit not their sky to
rain
or
their earth to grow! |
| 7 |
O God, through that
strengthen the prowess124 of the People of Islam,
fortify their cities,
increase their properties,
give them ease
from
their fighting
to
worship Thee
and
from their warfare
to
be alone with Thee,
so that none will be
worshipped
in
the regions of the earth but Thee
and no forehead of theirs may
be rubbed in dust
for
less than Thee! |
| 8 |
O God,
send out the Muslims of every
region on raids against
the
idolaters who face them!
Reinforce them with angels in
ranks from Thee,
till
the idolaters are routed by them to the end of the land,
slain
in Thy earth or taken captive,
or
till they admit that Thou art God,
other than whom there is no god,
Thou
alone, who hast no associate! |
| 9 |
O God,
include in this Thy enemies in
the regions of the lands,
the
Indians, the Byzantines, the Turks,
the
Khazars, the Abyssinians, the Nubians,
the
Zanjis, the Slavs, the Daylamites,
and
the rest of the idol-worshipping nations,
those
whose names and attributes are concealed,
but whom Thou countest in Thy cognizance
and
overseest through Thy power! |
| 10 |
O God,
distract the idolaters from
reaching for the borders of the Muslims
through the idolaters,
bar them from cutting them
down
through being cut down,
and hold them back from
massing together against them
through dissension! |
| 11 |
O God,
empty their hearts of
security
and
their bodies of strength,
distract their hearts from
thinking of stratagems,
make their limbs too feeble
for clashing with men,
make them too cowardly for
contending with champions,
send against them a troop of
Thy angels
with some of Thy severity
as Thou didst on the Day of Badr,125
so that through it Thou
mayest
cut off their roots,
harvest their thorns,
and disperse their number! |
| 12 |
O God,
mix their waters with
pestilence
and
their foods with maladies,
hurl down their cities,
harass
them with peltings,
hinder them through drought,
place their supplies in the
most ill-omened part of Thy earth
and the farthest from them,
bar them from its fortresses,
and strike them with constant
hunger and painful illness! |
| 13 |
O God,
if a warrior from the people
of Thy creed
wars
against them
or a struggler from the
followers of Thy prescriptions
struggles
against them
so
that Thy religion may be the highest,
Thy
party the strongest,
and
Thy share the fullest,
cast ease to him,
arrange
his affair,
attend
to him by granting success,
select
for him his companions,
strengthen
his back,
lavish
upon him livelihood,
give
him enjoyment of joyous vitality,
cool
for him the heat of yearning,
give
him sanctuary from the gloom of loneliness,
make
him forget the remembrance of wife and child, |
| 14 |
pass
along to him an excellent intention,
attend to him with well-being,
make safety his companion,
release him from cowardice,
inspire
him with boldness,
provide him with strength,
support him with help,
teach him right conduct and the norms of the Sunna,
point him straight in judgement,
remove from him hypocrisy,
purify him from seeking fame,
and make his thinking and remembrance,
his departing and his staying,
be
in Thee and for Thee! |
| 15 |
When
he stands in ranks before Thy enemy and his enemy,
make them few in his eye,
diminish their importance in his heart,
give him a turn to prevail over them,
not them a turn to prevail over him!
But if Thou sealest him with felicity
and decreest for him martyrdom,
then let it be after
he has exterminated Thy enemies by slaying,
captivity has afflicted them,
the borders of the Muslims are secure,
and Thy enemy has turned his back in flight! |
| 16 |
O God,
and if a Muslim should
take
the place of a warrior or a soldier in his home,
attend to those left behind in his absence,
help him with a portion of his property,
assist him with equipment,
hone
him for the struggle,
send along with him a supplication for his purpose,
or guard his honour in his absence,
reward him with the like of
his reward
measure for measure,
like
for like,
and recompense him for his
act with an immediate compensation
through which he will hasten to
the profit of what he has sent forth
and
the joy of what he has given,
till
the present moment takes him to
the
bounty Thou hast granted to him
and
the generosity Thou hast prepared for him! |
| 17 |
O God,
and if the affair of Islam
should worry a Muslim
and the alliance of the
idolaters' against Islam
should grieve him,
so that he has the intention
to go to war
and
is about to enter the struggle,
but frailty keeps him seated,
neediness
keeps him waiting,
a
mishap delays him,
or
an obstruction prevents him from his wish,
write his name
among
the worshipers,
make incumbent for him
the
reward of the strugglers,
and place him among the ranks
of
the martyrs and the righteous! |
| 18 |
O God,
bless Muhammad, Thy slave and
Thy messenger,
and
the Household of Muhammad,
with a blessing high above all
other blessings,
towering
beyond all other salutations,
a blessing whose end is never
reached
and whose number is never cut off,
like the most perfect of Thy
blessings that has passed
to any one of Thy friends!
Thou art All-kind, Praiseworthy,
the Originator who takes back
again,
Accomplisher of what Thou
desirest. |
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