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Kumayl's Invocation The following invocation is the teaching of Imam Ali
(AS) to one of his students, Kumayl Ibn Ziad, which is usually recited
every Thursday night.

For the Arabic text of this invocation, please see the
book named Keys to Paradise.
For more information please see
the end.
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
O' my God! I ask You, by Your mercy, which covers
everything, by Your power, which overpowers everything, and to
which everything submits and is humble, by Your might, by which You overcome everything, by Your glory, before which nothing stands, by Your magnificence, which fills everything, by Your authority, which rises over everything, by Your face (i. e.
, essence), which remains after
the destruction of everything, by Your names, which fill the essence of everything, by Your knowledge, which encompasses everything, and by the light of Your face (i.e. essence), for which
everything shines.

O' the Light, O' the Most Holy, O' the first of those
who where first, and the last of those who will be last.

O' God! Forgive me (my) sins, which tear apart
modesty.

O' God! Forgive me (my) sins, which bring down
misfortunes.

O' God! Forgive me (my) sins, which change prosperity.

O' God! Forgive me (my) sins, which block out
invocation.

O' God! Forgive me (my) sins, which cut off hopes.

O' God! Forgive me (my) sins, which bring down
distress.

O' God! Forgive me all sins that I have committed and
all mistakes that I have made.

O' God! I approach You by Your remembrance, seek Your
intercession through Yourself, and ask You by Your generosity, to bring me closer to You, to bestow on me the ability to thank You, to inspire me to Your remembrance.

O' God! I ask You as a person who is submissive,
humble, and obedient, to treat me kindly, to have mercy on me, and to make
me satisfied, content with what You have allotted, and humble in all
circumstances.

O' God! I ask You as a person, whose poverty is intense, who presents his need only to You, and whose desire is great for what You have.

O' God! Great is Your authority, exalted is Your
place, unknown is Your plan, clear is Your command, overwhelming is Your
might, continuous is Your power, and escape is impossible from Your domain.

O' God! I can not find anyone, who can forgive my sins, who can cover my ugly misdeeds, nor who can change my misdeeds to good, but You.

There is no God but You, glory and praise be to You.
I have harmed myself, I dared (to sin) because of my
ignorance, and I was confident in Your past remembrance of me, and Your
continuous grace on me.

O' God!

How many ugly deeds You have covered!

How many heavy misfortunes You have lifted!

How many stumblings You have prevented!

How many disliked (objects) You have removed!

How many graceful praises, which I was not worthy of
it, You have made spread!

O' God! My distress is great, my sorry plight exceeded
the limits, my deeds are short, my chains kept me down, and my high desires
withheld me from gaining what was at hand.

The world has deceived me by its illusion, and my soul
by its disloyalty, and my postponement.

O' my Master! I ask You by Your might, not to let my
ugly deeds and acts conceal my invocation from You.

Thus do not
disgrace me by exposing what is secret of my acts which only You are aware of, and do
not rush the punishment of what I have done secretly, such as, my
ugly deeds, my offenses, my continuous negligence, my ignorance, my
numerous whims, and my foolishness.

O' God! By Your might, be compassionate to me in all
circumstances, and have grace on me in all matters.

My God and my Lord! Whom can I ask, beside You, to
remove my disadvantages, and to look into my affairs?

My God and my Protector! You have laid on me rules (to
follow), but I followed my own whims.

I did not take
protection from the sham of my enemy.

Therefore, he was able to deceive me through my
desire, and the divine decree favored him in this matter.

Thus I
have exceeded Your limits by violation of some of Your rules, and disobeyed some of
Your commands.

But Your praise is due on me in all these matters, and
I have no argument against the judgment You passed on me.

Your
judgment and Your test on me became indispensable.

My God! I come to You after my faults and my
wastefulness against myself, while apologizing, repentant, dejected, asking to
discharge me from my sins, asking forgiveness, turning to You, confessing,
yielding, and acknowledging my mistakes.

I do not find any way out from what I have done, nor
any place to refuge to turn to, about my affairs, except Your acceptance of
my apology, and Your entering me in to the range of Your mercy.

O' my God! Then accept my apology, have mercy on my
intense disadvantage, and free me from the solid chains.

O' my Lord! Have mercy on my weak body, the thinness
of my skin, and my delicate bones.

O' He has began my creation, my remembrance, my
upbringing, my welfare and my nourishment, Be generous to me as You were in the beginning, and be
kind to me as You were before.

O' my God, my Master, and my Lord! How could You see
me punished with Your fire, after my belief in Your unity, after my heart recognizing You, after my tongue speaking continuously in Your
remembrance, after my heart has been bound to Your love, after my true confession, and my humble invocation to
Your divinity?

No, How impossible it is!

You are too generous to abandon one whom You have
raised, or to push away (from Your mercy) one whom You have
already brought near, or to drive away one whom You have given shelter, or to leave to misfortune one whom You have enriched
and blessed.

O' my Master, my God! I wish I could know, how would
You impose fire on faces, which fall down prostrating to Your
magnificence, and on hearts, which surely acknowledge Your divinity, and on tongues which have sincerely pronounced Your unity
and thanked You with Your praise, and on minds, which acquired knowledge until became
humble, and on limbs, which hurried to praise You and which
obediently moved to place of Your worship, introducing Your forgiveness, (while)
yielding (to it).

No.
Never! Such a suspicion can never be
directed to You, nor we have heard of such a thing from Your grace.

O' the Most Generous! O' Lord! You know my weakness to
endure a small portion of worldly misfortune, its punishment, and
difficulties, which fall upon its inhabitants, while that is a misfortune and
difficulty whose duration is short.

How then can I bear the
misfortune of the hereafter and the occurrence of its tremendous difficulties while it
is a misfortune whose duration will be long, whose situation will
continue, and there will be no decrease for its inhabitants because it can not
be but from Your wrath, vengeance, and anger for which neither Heavens
nor Earth can stand?

O' my Master! How can I endure it, while I am Your
servant, the weak, the insignificant, the low, the poor, and the humble.

O' my God, my Lord, my Master, and my Protector! About
which should I complain to You, and about what should I outcry and
weep, for the grievous punishment and its intensity, or for the length of misfortune and its duration?

Therefore if You send me to Your enemies for
punishment, gather me with misfortune people, and separate me from those who love
You and those who adore You, Then O' my God, my Master, my Nourisher, my
Lord!

suppose that I would be patient on Your punishment,
how then, would I be patient on my separation from You? and suppose that I would be patient on the heat of Your
fire, how then, would I be deprived of looking into Your honor? or how would I
abide in fire, while I hope for Your forgiveness?

O' my Master and my Protector! Thus, truly I swear by
Your might, that if You leave me with the power of speech, among the
inhabitants of Hell, I would cry to You like those who cry out of hope, I would scream like those who scream for serious help, I would weep like those who have lost (hope), and I would call You saying: O' the Protector of
believers! O' the utmost hope of those who know You! O' the Helper of those who
appeal for help! O' the beloved of trustfuls! O' the Lord of the worlds!
O' my God! Glory and praise be to You.

How
would You hear the voice of a submissive servant, who is imprisoned (within the
fire) because of his disobedience, tasted the flavor of its punishment for
his resistance, blocked within the layers of Hell for his sins and
crimes, while he cries as one who hopes for Your mercy, calls You by the
language of the people who believe in Your unity, and seek refuge to You by Your
divinity!

O' my protector! Then how can (Your servant) remain in
pain while he hopes Your indulgence that was in the past? or, how can the fire hurts him while he has hope in Your
favor and compassion?

or, how can the flames burn him while You hear his voice
and see his place? or, how can the exhaling (of fire) covers him while You
know his weakness? or, how can he be immersed in its layers while You know
his sincerity? or, how can the flames torture him while he calls You
O' my Lord!? or, how possible can it be to leave him in the fire while
he hopes for Your grace to free him?!

No.
Never.
Such an idea can not be
attributed to You, nor it is known of Your grace, nor it is similar to the way You have
treated the believers in Your unity by Your kindness, and Your generosity.

Therefore, I am certainly sure that had You not judged
to punish unbelievers in You, and to leave Your enemies in the fire that
lasts for ever, then You have made the fire totally cool and peaceful, and no
one would have any place in it, neither permanently, nor even for a short
time.

But You have sworn by Your sanctified Names that You
will fill it with all unbelievers, from the unseen (Jin) and mankind, and
that You keep Your enemies there forever.

You, great be Your
praise, have said in the beginning, and by Your generosity extended the grace,
that: Is he who a believer like the one who is not? No, they can not be
alike.

(Quran:
32:18)

O' my Lord and my Master! I ask You, then, by the power, which You have enforced, by Your divine decree, which You have made a
necessity, governed, and overpowered whom You have imposed (the power) on, that, You forgive me at this night, and this moment, all crimes, which I have dealt with, all sins, which I have committed, all ugly deeds, which I have kept secret, all foolishness, which I have done, whether kept it
secret, or disclosed, covered or uncovered, and, all evils, which You have ordered the noble scribes to
record, those whom You authorized to keep what is done by me, and made
them witnesses on me beside my limbs, then, (after all) You are the
observer above them, the witness of what remains hidden from them, and what You
did hide by Your mercy, and (You have) covered by Your grace, and that You increase my share of all good things,
which You have sent down, or good deeds, which You have favored, or Kindness, which You have spread, or means of living, which You have made available, or sins, which You forgive, or mistakes, which You conceal.

O' Lord, O' Lord, O' Lord, my Master, my Protector,
and the Master of my freedom!

O' He who has my forehead in His hands, O' He who knows my disadvantages and my poverty, O' He who is well acquainted with my misery and
neediness, O' Lord, O' Lord, O' Lord!

I ask You by Yourself, by Your Holiness, by Your great
attributes, and names, that, You make my times of days and nights alive by
Your remembrance, and joined to Your service, my deeds accepted by You.

So
that my deeds and my remembrances all become one harmonic effort, and my
(life be in an) eternal state, devoted to Your service.

O' my Master!

O' He only on Him I depend!

O' He only to Him I complain about my situation!

O' Lord, O' Lord, O' Lord!

Strengthen my limbs for Your service, intensify (my) determination through all parts of my
body, grant me eagerness in Your fear, and continuous
service to You, in order to move towards You among those who are first in their
fields, be prompt toward You among those who are first, yearn toward Your nearness among those who are eager, become close to You like the closeness of those who
are sincere, fear You like those who are certain, and join the
believers near You.

O' God!

Whoever wishes me evil, wish him the same, Whoever wants to harm me, harm him, put me among the best of Your servants, the closest in
status to You, the most privileged to You.

Indeed, that can not be attained without Your grace.

Grant me generously by Your generosity, have sympathy for me, by Your glory, protect me by Your mercy.

Make my tongue dedicated to Your remembrance, and my
heart subservient to Your love.

Bestow blessings on me by Your excellent fulfillment, prevent my stumbling, and forgive my lapses.

Indeed You have commanded Your servants to worship
You, ordered them to call upon You, and assured them Your fulfillment(of their
requests).

Therefore, O' Lord! I raise my face to You, and I
extend my hands toward You.

O' Lord! By Your might, then, answer my invocation,
make me attain my request.

By Your grace, do not cut off my hope, and protect me
from the harms from the unseen and the mankind among my enemies.

O' He who is quickly pleased! Forgive he who has
nothing but prayer.
Indeed, You do what You please.

O' He whose Name is remedy, whose remembrance is
healing, and whose obedience is prosperity!

Have mercy on he, whose capital is hope, and whose
weapon is weeping.

O' He who provides complete blessing, and, who removes
misfortunes!

O' the Light of those who are distressed in darkness!

O' He who knows without learning!

Bless Mohammad and The Members of his House, and do
for me what You are worthy of doing.

May Allah bless His Messenger, and the blessed Leaders
among his descendants, and bestow upon them an endless peace and
tranquillity.

Ameen KUMAYL'S LIFE Kumayl b.
Ziyad b.
Naheed b.
Haytham
b.
Sa'd b.
Malik b.
Nakhai
was chief of his tribe in Kufah, Iraq.

He was a reliable
reporter of Hadith, though he did not report much, and a great devotee to worship
of, and service to, Almighty God.

He was born c.
18 A.
H.

, became the
Governor of Heet, Iraq during the time of Imam Ali, c.
35-40 A.
H.

The
Imam used to advise him on the general characteristics of a Muslim ruler.

On one
occasion, the Imam told him, Neglecting the (immediate) duty and being
concerned about what is not (urgent) is the permanent weakness, i.
e.
,
in order to succeed, one must have clear agenda with a list of priorities and focus
on one duty at a time.

In 81 or 88 A.
H.

the tyrant of Iraq,
Hajjaj, killed Kumayl and many other believers for no reason but their faith.

The
shrine of Kumayl is in the suburb of Najaf, Iraq.

(For details see al-Irshad
by Shaykh al-Mufeed, d.
413 Najaf 1962, and Tahdhib al-Tahdhib by Ibn Hajar
al-Asqalani,d.
852, Hyderabad, India, v8, P.
448, 1328.
)

THE INVOCATION'S MERIT Kumayl reports that he was with the commander of
believers, Imam Ali, at Basra Mosque, listening to him who was saying,
Whoever worships (the Almighty) on the night before the middle of Sha'ban
(8th month of Islamic calendar) and recites the Khidr invocation, his wishes
would be fulfilled.

Shaykh al-Tusi, d.
460 A.
H.

, reports
the Kumayl had observed the commander of the believers during his prostration on that night,
reciting this invocation.

Sayyid Ibn Tawus d.
664 A.
H.

adds:
Kumayl further asked the Imam about the merit of the invocation.

Then, Imam replied:
When you (fully) understand the invocation, recite it every night before Friday,
or once every month, or once every year, or once in your lifetime, you will be
protected, helped, blessed, and forgiven (by the Almighty).

(for details see al-Tusi d.
460, Misbah al-Mutahajjid, p.
774, and Ibn
Tawus, d.
664, Iqbal al-Amal, p706.
)

THE ORIGINAL TEXT The Arabic text of Kumayl's Invocation is an excerpt
from the following sources:

1.
Key to Paradise, the concise
edition of Mafathih al-Jinan, by Shaykh Abbas al-Qummi, d.
1359 A.
H.

, edited
by Sayyid Hadi Suhufi, and the calligraphy by Abdul Rahim Afshari in 1381 A.
H.

However,
the original Arabic text has been compared with the following sources:

2.
Misbah al-Mutahajjid, by
Shaykh Muhammad b.
al-Hassan al-Tusi, d.
460 A.
H.

, edited by Haj Ismail Ansari, Qum, Iran,
1401.

This edition is offset of the following:

3.
Lithograph edition dated 1082 A.
H.

,
copyist, Muhammad Yahya b.
Habib Allah.

this was copied from the following:

4.
Manuscript dated 1068 A.
H.

,
Copyist Ahmad b.
Haj Tawwali.

This
has been compared with the following:

5.
Manuscript dated 971 A.
H.

,
Copyist: 'Imam al-Din' Ali al-Sharif al- Istrabadi.

This was copied from the
following:

6.
Manuscript dated 571 A.
H.

,
Copyist: Muhammad b.
Idris al-'Ijli.

This
has been compared with the original manuscript of
al-Misbah written by the author, Shaykh Muhammad b.
al-Hassan Abu
Jafar al-Tusi, d.
460 A.
H.

The chain of documents to Shaykh al-Tusi is mentioned
in al-Mashikha by Shaykh Muhammad Muhsin al-Tehrani, d.
1389 A.
H.

in
Najaf, Iraq, as well as other sources.

In this translation, we have made all possible efforts
to present an English version of Kumayl's Invocation as close as possible to
the original Arabic text, based on the meanings of the equivalent roots in
both Arabic and English lexicons.

WHY INVOCATION?

In Arabia, fourteen centuries ago, a man asked his
friend for a recommendation: what prayer would be the most useful
to the one seeking assurance of God's mercy? This prayer was given in
response.

The man's name was Kumayl, son of Ziad, and his friend was Ali (AS),
the Leader of the Faithful.

Kumayl was a trusted companion of Ali (AS), well-known
for his devotion, and unflinching adherence to his great master.

Kumayl
has transmitted a number of important sayings and teachings of the
Leader of the Faithful.

The famous supplication, known by the title
Du'a-e-Kumayl or supplication of Kumayl, is one of the most important of those
teachings.

The instructions delivered with this prayer emphasize
that it should be recited as frequently as possible.

Faithful
Muslims enjoy a weekly recitation, usually on the evening of Thursdays.

A sincere reading of this prayer can reveal many
things: the Islamic concept of God, His Attributes, man's well-founded
hopes for reply to prayer and a tranquillity of spirit to be obtained
with few other prayers.

O' Nourisher, how can we thank You enough for the kind
permission You have given us, that at any time and under any condition we
can call upon You and You will take our hands.

You have insisted
that at any incident we should come to Your door, saying I will support you and
with My assistance you can overcome your problems.

O' Lord, people are constantly wondering about
invocation, which should be defined as relation with You.

Sometimes
people ask what is invocation (Du'a)? or they often ask What effect does
it have? Sometimes they complain, saying their invocations (Du'a) are not
accepted.

Questions are raised about the invocations (Du'a) by sinless people
and spiritual leaders, and the groans and wailing that accompany
these prayers into Your Holy Presence.

I now ask for help from You,
for Your Aid in expressing this idea to present some points within a concise essay,
hoping to provide a solution to the problems of researchers.

Human beings live in a world with billions of
creatures, known and unknown.

Their numbers seem impossible to know for human
beings.

The span of man's vision is so small that he can not even obtain
knowledge of creatures that are around him.

Sometimes he can not even
perceive them or get information concerning their existence.

With the
recognition of his own knowledge as so insufficient, when he reaches the climax of mental
greatness, he cries out by saying I am uninformed of other than
myself.

How can a human being, a trivial portion of the
Universe live in such a way that he always finds success and prosperity? Every
moment he is surrounded by problems, with heavy waves pushing him through
unbearable ups and downs and blights.

Can a path be found through all
these difficulties? The way that a human being can take to bring himself to the
coast of rescue? And in some manner continue his route and strive for the
development that he desires and find his God by reaching Him and joining
with the Sublime Essence, to grasp the real development that he was
created for?

Yes, the Creator of the World through the power which
He entrusted to human beings directs all them to development.

All
human beings eagerly want to attain such development.

This propensity
that has been instilled in every human heart by the Nourisher pulls man to his Creator
and aids him in heading on the path of development.

The only
way to enhance this inclination is an attempt that must be made, according to the
order of God, for the protection of the relation between the human being and
his Creator.

If this link to God is broken, it is like an
electrical wire that is cut.

The connection between the power plant and the light
bulb does not exist any longer, and therefore the light is extinguished.

When
the connection between man and God is cut, man becomes a corrupt
being and a painful element in the society, and he is only filling space
and making the space tighter for others.

This relation or connection is invocation (Du'a) that
an alive human being offers to his Nourisher.

With an expressive
language, the supplicant presents his inability and helplessness and confesses
to the ability, complete independence and absolute power of his
Nourisher.

Obviously the smaller we see ourselves and the greater
we see Him, the more potential and more ability is there for us realize the
importance of this connection, and we would therefore gain more benefit
from it.

From the Reservoir of Power, humans ask for the fulfillment of
their needs.

As a result of this connection, the invocation (Du'a) adds
to his scientific and moral abilities in every moment.

The
more intensively the human being prays, the more his scientific grasp will be stronger,
with man viewing himself as less and less, and His Creator as stronger
and greater.

As a result of this attempt, it gets to a point that
an advanced human being according to his genuine nature does not
make any hesitation in following the path of Almighty God.

In
every step that he takes towards development, the greatness and grandeur
of the power of the Almighty will become more obvious him, and he will
look at his past from a higher level.

For what he has done he will
sometimes apologize, even if what he has done was his duties.

That is
because he now comprehends its inadequacy.

HE INTERPRETS HIS PAST WORSHIPS
AS SIN and does not see any value for his work when presented to the Great
position of the Lord.

With his elevated view, he perceives his submission to
God's presence as SINFUL and even an action far from politeness.

What is My Performance?

Offering praise in Your Presence is a lack and a sin.

I
am nobody and full of flaws and needs.

Whatever goes from me to
Your Presence is not only valueless but it is a fault due to my weakness and
incapability.

The only way out of this for me is to know myself with my
imperfections and know You by Your Perfection.

With the net of kindness
that you have opened, I can reach complete development and benefit from the Grace
pouring from the Essence of Being.

We strive moment by moment to reach You.

Of
course, in this path all people are not the same, and do not strive in the same
manner.

When the range of our knowledge about ourselves and about the Creator
increases and we do not stray from the path of humanity, we can travel in a
better, easier, and stronger way.

The Prophets and the Imams have reached this point.

Since
they realize the Magnificence of their Lord and comprehend the position
of the Life-Giver, they see themselves, their activities, and their
prostrations and praises so little that THEY INTERPRET THE WORSHIP OF THAT MUCH
AFFLUENCE AND GREATNESS AS SIN, and with supplication and
invocation, they ask for pardon and they hope for forgiveness.

When they
face the divine commandments and consider the Holy Position of the Almighty, they
submit themselves to the Master.

They see this action in front of the
Lord as nothing, and recognize it AS NOT SUITABLE FOR PRAISE.

They hope it
would be accepted by the Generosity and Majesty of the Creator, OTHERWISE IT IS
A SIN TO SUBMIT SUCH INADEQUATE WORSHIP TO THE HOLY PRESENCE OF THE LORD.

Those people like the Prophet Muhammad and his
Ahlul-Bayt realized the Divine position with a much wider view.

Continuously
upon the two wings of knowledge and action, they progressed to a higher and
superior position.

They were at every moment finding out more about the
Magnificence of the Life-Giver of the world, and more about their own
incapability;

consequently better understanding their inadequate
actions in comparison with that much Power and Greatness.

To
compensate for that, they confessed to their sins and asked the Lord for the permission to
apologize with the excuse that they CAN NOT do to the extent of what
Allah deserves, with the hope that He would guide them to a higher and superior
position until they could continue their development process in order to
reach the sublime of morality.

Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (AS) has proclaimed these
instructions for invocation:

First we must testify to the Omnipotence of
Almighty God, then we have to send greetings to the Prophet and his descendants, and
then confess to our sins, flaws, and shortcomings.

Then whatever
we desire we should present before Him.

It should be kept in mind that
first a human being should make an acquaintance with his Lord and confess to His
Grandeur, and then following the method of the Prophet (PBUH&HF) and
the Chaste Leaders (AS), make a connection to him.

He should then get
to know himself, how many imperfections he has that ask the submission of his
worship an impolite act toward Him.

When he finds out about the two
aspects: His ability and his own incapability and how to reach to the Source of
Power, then it is time to share his statements with his Lord.

It is at this time that a human being discovers the
greatness of supplication and the degree of its value.

This
is the way of success in the existing world.

Indeed, supplication or
prayer is recognition of God and recognition of his own, and review and deliberation on
one's past with an expectation to one's future.

The more the human being becomes curious at these
stages and studies the world of nature, the greater will be his
understanding: How great is his Lord and with what ability He has created such a vast
universe and how small and incapable are human beings in such an environment.

He
must realize that he could never be rescued all by himself in this world
which is full of disturbances, except to be under the Guidance of the
Creator of the world and ask assistance from Him.

In that way, he
can attain the position (that according to the tradition) he has been created for.

In
that way, he finds his way to the door of the Prophets and Saints.

With
the help of the Guider of the Righteous, he can continue his development
process.

When he makes progress, he becomes MORE SHAMEFUL OF HIS PAST and
becomes more needful.

With the power from the Hidden Source of the world, he
enters society.

In his life, he overcomes all problems, solving any
thing he faces, with the favor of God.

Under these circumstances
he neither abjects himself to others or is cruel to others.

He is a human
being that on his humanistic path, he benefits from everything and is supported by
the Divine Power.

He is not afraid of anyone except Him, and he is not lax
in action and work and he never fails on any battlefield.

That
is because he sees himself connected to the endless Divine Power, with a world of
strength in the battles of life, and with a tireless power he smoothes
out all unevenness.

It is based on this principle that all Prophets and
purified Imams, at every small or important event were first praying and
begging for help from God, and then they began their task.

The
messenger of Islam first of all worshipped God before he was preparing to go to
battle; he was offering his inability before the Holy Presence of the Almighty and
resorting to the infinite Divine Power; only then, he was entering the
battlefield with good moral, knowing that conditions for the real victory
were His.

Yes, first power must be obtained and then action.

Invocation
can be this power-giver to all human beings.

Regards.

Sundays' Supplication In the name of God, from whom I hope for nothing but His bounty, and from whom I fear nothing but His justice!

I rely only upon His words, and I cling only to His
rope!

O' the pocessor of pardon and prosperity, In You I
seek sanctuary, from oppression and enmity, from the changes of the time and recurrence of
sorrows, from the striking events, and from the expiration of my term (life) before
forgiveness and preparation.

From You I seek guidance wherein is righteousness
and sets me right.

From You I seek help which is linked to success and
favorable response.

To You I tend, for the garment of well-being and its completion, and for the covering of health and its continuity.

To You I seek refuge, O' my Lord, from the
stimulations of Satans, and I seek protection in Your government, from the
injustice of governors.

So accept my past prayers and fasting, and make my
tomorrow and its after, better than my present hour and today!

Exalt me in my clan and my people.

Protect me in my waking and my sleeping.

For You are God, the best guardian, and the most
merciful.

O' God, I quit before You, on this day and the
following Sundays (AHAAD), of associating anything with You (SHIRK) and of heresy
(ILHAAD), and I sincerely devote my supplication to You seeking
for response.

So bless Mohammad and his Household, the best of Your
creatures and the summoners to Your truth, and exalt me with Your exaltation which never suffers from
loss, protect me with Your sight which never falls asleep,
and seal my affairs by cutting me off from everything but
You, and my life with forgiveness! Surely You are the merciful and the
compassionate.

The above piece of supplication was excerpted from a
book named The Psalms of Islam (al-Sahifat al-Sajjadiyya)
by Imam Ali Ibn Husain (al-Sajjad, Zayn al-Abidin), the 4th Imam/successor
and grandson of Prophet (PBUH&HF).

The Psalms of Islam, Arabic-English, Translated by:
William C.

Chittick, Published by: The Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, 1988 ISBN 0-946079-51-X ISBN 0-946079-56-O Mondays' Supplication Praise belongs to God, who allowed none to witness when He created the
heavens and the earth, and who took no assistant when He shaped the spirits (of
people)!

He has no associate in divinity and no support in
unity.

Tongues fall silent in describing the deepness of His
attributes, intellects fail in knowing Him thoroughly, tyrants fall low before His majesty, faces are humbled in fear of Him, and everything mighty is overwhelmed of His might!

Thus praise be to You, again and again, and
continuously!

And His blessings be upon His Messenger endlessly and
everlastingly!

O' God, make the beginning of this day of mine
righteousness, its middle prosperity, and its end success!

And I seek refuge in You from a day whose beginning is
fright, whose middle is anxiety, and whose end is pain!

O' God, I ask forgiveness for every promise I have
promised, then failed to keep.

I ask You concerning Your servants:

If there is any servant from among Your servants or
any handmaid from among Your handmaids, who has against me a complaint because
I have wronged him in respect to himself, his reputation, his property,
his family, evil words I have spoken about him in his absence, an imposition
upon him through inclination, caprice, scorn, zeal, false show,
bigotry, whether he be absent or present, alive or dead, such
that my hand has fallen short in order to find him and ask him for
forgiveness, or my capacity has been too narrow to compensate for him, I ask You, O' He who owns all objects of need which
are granted by His will and hasten to His desire that bless Mohammad and his
Household, and have mercy on me by satisfying (the one I might have
wronged) from me in the manner that You will.

Because forgiveness decreases
You nothing, and grant hurts You nothing, O' Most Merciful of the merciful!

O' God, give me on every Monday (ITHNAIN) two favors
from You:

the opportunity to obey You from its beginning, and the favor of Your forgiveness by its end.

O' He who is the God, and none but him can forgive the
sins!

The above piece of supplication was excerpted from a
book named The Psalms of Islam (al-Sahifat al-Sajjadiyya)
by Imam Ali Ibn Husain (al-Sajjad, Zayn al-Abidin), the 4th Imam/successor
and grandson of Prophet (PBUH&HF).

The Psalms of Islam, Arabic-English, Translated by:
William C.

Chittick, Published by: The Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, 1988 ISBN 0-946079-51-X ISBN 0-946079-56-O Tuesdays' Supplication In the name of God, the all merciful, the
compassionate.

Praise belongs to God, and praise is His right, for He deserves abundant
praise!

I seek refuge in Him from the evil of my soul (nafs),
for surely the soul commands to evil unless my Lord do bestow His Mercy
(to protect my soul) (12:53).

I seek refuge in Him from the evil of Satan who adds
sins to my sin.

I seek protection with him from every wicked tyrant,
unjust king, and conquering enemy.

O God, place me among Your troops, for Your troops are the
only real victorious (37:173), place me in Your party, for People of Your party are
the only prosperous (58:22),and place me among Your friends, for Your friends no fear
shall be upon them, nor shall they sorrow (10:62).

O God set right for me my religion, for it is the protection
(Ismah) of my affair, set right for me my Hereafter, for it is my permanent
residence and to it I could flee from the neighborhood of the vile!

Make life an increase for me in every good and death
an ease for me from every evil!

O God, bless Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets and the
terminator of the number of the messengers, and bless his chaste and pure
Household, and his select Companions, and grant me on the Tuesday three things:

Afflict me no sin unless You have already forgiven, no sorrow unless You have already taken it away, and no enemy unless You have already repelled
him!

By means of in the name of Allah, the best
of the Names, in the name of Lord of earth and heaven, I seek to repulse every hateful thing (makrooh), which
has His anger at its beginning, and I seek to attract every lovable thing (mahboob), which
has His satisfaction at its beginning!

So seal me with forgiveness from You, O Patron of
beneficence!

The above piece of supplication was excerpted from a
book named The Psalms of Islam (al-Sahifat al-Sajjadiyya)
by Imam Ali Ibn Husain (al-Sajjad, Zayn al-Abidin), the 4th Imam/successor
and grandson of Prophet (PBUH&HF).

The Psalms of Islam, Arabic-English, Translated by:
William C.

Chittick, Published by: The Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, 1988 ISBN 0-946079-51-X ISBN 0-946079-56-O