MONDAY DU'A
(prayer)
Praise be to God who called none to witness when He
created the heavens and the earth, and took no assistance when He created
the spirits.Never had He any partner in His Godhead, nor was He
ever helped in His Oneness.Tongues are unable to praise Him to the
fullest extent, reason incapable of knowing His essence, the mighty humble
themselves before His Majesty, their faces bent downward on account of His
dread, and all the great submit to His Glory.Therefore, unto Thee
be all praise in increasing succession and unbroken continuance. And may
His favor be on His apostle eternally, and peace perpetually,
forever.O Lord, let the first part of this my day consist in
amendment, the middle of it in prosperity, and the last of it in
success.And through Thee I seek refuge from a day which begins in
fear, the middle of which causes distress, and which ends in
pain.O Lord, verily I ask Thy pardon for every vow I vowed, every
promise I promised and every covenant I made with Thee, and then failed to
discharge them.And I pray to Thee concerning wrongs done to Thy
creatures; therefore whichever servant of Thine or handmaid of Thine has
suffered from me any wrong which I may have done to his person or
reputation or property or kith or offspring, or any slander whereby I may
have spoken ill of him, or anything I may have imposed on him on account
of inclination, or passion, or force, jealousy, or hypocrisy, or
prejudice; he being absent or present, alive or dead; and, thereafter my
hand become too short and my means too narrow to make amends to him or
obtain his forgiveness; in that case, I beg Thee.... O Thou who art the
Lord of requests (and they are obedient to Thy will and ready to conform
to Thy wish), to confer favor on Muhammad and his Aal (family) and
reconcile him to me by whatever means Thou choosest, and let me have mercy
from Thee; Verily, pardon causes Thee no loss, nor does bounty
injure Thee, O most Merciful.O Lord, grant me on every Monday two
gifts from Thee, viz. good luck to obey Thee at the beginning of the day,
and the blessing of Thy pardon at the end of it.O Thou who art the
only object of worship, and except whom none can forgive sins.