His Supplication upon Completing a Reading of the
Qur'an |
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O God,
Thou hast helped me complete
Thy Book,
which Thou sent down as a
light153 and appointed as
a
guardian over every book Thou hast sent down,154
preferring
it over every narrative
which
Thou hast recounted,155 |
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a
separator, through which Thou hast separated
Thy
lawful from Thy unlawful,156
a
Qur'an, through which Thou hast made plain
the
approaches to Thy ordinances,157
a
book, which Thou hast distinguished very distinctly
for
Thy servants,158
a
revelation, which Thou hast sent down,
a
sending down,
upon
Thy prophet Muhammad159
(Thy
blessings be upon him and his Household). |
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Thou
appointed it
a
light through following which
we
may be guided from the shadows
of
error and ignorance,160
a
healing for him
who
turns ear toward hearing it
with
the understanding of attestation,161
a
just balance
whose
tongue does not incline away from truth,162
a
light of guidance
whose
proof is not extinguished before
the
witnesses,163
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. |
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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! |
| 5 |
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,164
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. |
| 6 |
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! |
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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! |
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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! |
| 9 |
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,165
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! |
| 10 |
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!166 |
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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!167
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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! |
| 13 |
O God,
bless Muhammad and his
Household
and through the Qur'an make
easy for our souls at death
the distress of the driving,168
the effort of the moaning,
and the succession of the rattling,
when souls reach the throats
and it is said, 'Where is the enchanter?';169
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,170
and the graves become the haven
until the appointed time of the Day of Encounter! |
| 14 |
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! |
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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! |
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Whiten our faces
on the day when the faces of wrongdoers are blackened171
during
the Day of Regret and Remorse,
appoint love for us in the
breasts of the faithful,
and make not life for us
troublesome! |
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O God,
bless Muhammad, Thy servant
and Thy messenger,
just as He delivered Thy
message,
executed Thy command,
and counselled Thy servants! |
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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! |
| 19 |
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,172
whiten his face,
complete his light,
and raise his degree! |
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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,173
and give us to drink of his cup! |
| 21 |
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. |
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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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