His Supplication when Death was Mentioned His Supplication when Someone's Death was Announced to him or when he Remembered Death 1 O God,           Bless Muhammad and his Household,           spare us drawn out expectations                     and cut them short in us through sincerity of works,           that we may not hope expectantly for                     completing an hour after an hour,                     closing a day after a day,                     joining a breath to a breath,                     or overtaking a step with a step! 2           Keep us safe from the delusions of expectations,                     make us secure from their evils,                     set up death before us in display.                     and let not our remembering of it come and go! 3           Appoint for us from among the righteous works a work                     through which we will feel the homecoming to Thee as slow                               and crave a quick joining with Thee,                     so that death may be                               our intimate abode with which we are intimate,                               our familiar place toward which we yearn,                               and our next of kin whose coming we love! 4           When Thou bringest it to us                     and sendest it down upon us,           make us happy with it as a visitor,                     comfort us with its arrival,                     make us not wretched through entertaining it,                     degrade us not through its visit,                     and appoint it one of the gates to Thy forgiveness                               and the keys to Thy mercy! 5           Make us die                     guided, not astray,                     obedient, not averse,                     repentant, not disobedient or persisting,           O He who guarantees the repayment of the good-doers                     and seeks to set right the work of the corrupt!