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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.

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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

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KUMAYL'S LIFE

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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