Ziyara / Supplication

Arbaeen Supplication

It is a supplication narrated by Sheikh Tusi in Kitab al-Tahdhib by Safwan Jammal. Imam Sadiq (a.s.) told me about Arbaeen supplication: When a significant part of the day is over, read this supplication:

Peace be upon the intimate servant of Allah and His most-beloved.
Peace be upon the friend of Allah and His elite.
Peace be upon the choice of Allah and son of His choice.
Peace be upon al-Husayn the wronged and martyred.
Peace be upon the captive of agonies and victim of the shed tears.
O Allah, I do bear witness that he is verily Your intimate servant and son of Your intimate servant,
Your choice and son of Your choice,
and the winner of Your honoring.
You have honored him with martyrdom,
endued him with happiness,
privileged him with legitimate birth,
and made him a master among the masters,
a leader among the leaders,
a treasure among the treasures,
and gave him the inheritance of the prophets
and made him a proof over Your creation from among the successors.
So he was sincere in supplication
and generous in advice
and put his heart, mind, soul and life at Your disposal
to liberate Your servants from ignorance
and confusion of misguidance
and he was confronted by those whom the world had deceived
and who sold their share for the lowest price
and bought their hereafter for the cheapest value
and became arrogant and rebellious in their desires
and angered You and angered Your prophet,
and obeyed from among Your servants the people of enmity and hypocrisy
and the bearers of burdens who deserve the fire [of hell].
So he fought them for Your sake patiently and expectantly
until his blood was spilled in Your obedience
and his sanctity was violated.
O Allah, so curse them a severe curse
and punish them with a painful punishment.
Peace be upon you, O son of the messenger of Allah.
Peace be upon you, O son of the master of the successors.
I bear witness that you are the trustee of Allah and son of His trustee,
you lived happily and died praiseworthily
and departed as a martyr and wronged one.
And I bear witness that Allah will fulfill His promise to you
and destroy those who wronged you
and punish those who killed you.
And I bear witness that you are verily a light in the lofty loins
and pure wombs [that were never] defiled by impurities
nor were you covered by the darknesses of its clothes.
And I bear witness that you are one of the pillars of religion
and one of the signs of guidance
and one of the strong ropes
and one of the proofs over the people of this world.
And I bear witness that I believe in you
and I am certain about your return
by my religion’s laws and my deeds’ conclusions
and my heart is at peace with your heart
and my affair follows your affair
and my support for you is ready
until Allah permits you to appear.
So with you, with you, not with your enemy.
May Allah’s blessings be upon you and upon your souls and bodies [or forms] and your witnesses and absent ones
and your apparent and hidden ones.
Amen, Lord of the worlds.

Munajat al-kha’ifin in English

In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.

My God, what thinkest You? Will You chastise me after my faith in You?

Drive me far away after my love for You?

Deprive me while I hope for Your mercy and forgiveness?

Forsake me while I seek sanctuary in Your pardon?

How could Your generous face disappoint me?!

I wish that I know –

Did my mother bear me for wretchedness?

Did she nurture me for suffering?

If such, then I wish that she had not borne me and had not nurtured me!

I wish that I had knowledge – Have You appointed me one of the people of felicity?

Have You singled me out for Your nearness and neighbourhood?

Then would my eyes be gladdened, and in that my soul reach serenity.

My God, do You blacken faces which fall down in prostration before Your mightiness?

Do You strike dumb tongues which speak in laudation of Your glory and majesty?

Do You seal hearts which harbour Your love?

Do You deafen ears which take pleasure in hearing Your remembrance according to Your will?

Do You manacle hands which expectations have raised to You in hope of Your clemency?

Do You punish bodies which worked to obey You

until they grew thin in struggling for You?

Do You chastise legs which ran to worship You?

My God, lock not toward those who profess Your Unity the doors of Your mercy,

and veil not those who yearn for You from looking upon the vision of Your beauty!

My God, a soul which You has exalted by its professing Your Unity –

how will You burn it in the heat of Your fires?

My God, a heart which has been knotted by its love for You—

how will You burn it in the heat of Your fires?

My God, give me sanctuary from Your painful wrath and Your mighty anger!

O All-loving, O All-kind!

O Compassionate, O Merciful!

O Compeller, O Subduer!

O All-forgiver, O All-covering!

Deliver me through Your mercy from the chastisement of the Fire

and the disgrace of shame

when the good are set apart from the evil,

forms are transformed, terrors terrify,

the good-doers are brought near, the evildoers taken far,

and every soul is paid in full what it has earned, and they shall not be wronged

Ziyara / Supplication

Munajat al-ta’ibin in English

In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.

My God, offenses have clothed me in the garment of my lowliness,

separation from You has wrapped me in the clothing of my misery!

My dreadful crimes have deadened my heart,

so bring it to life by a repentance from You! O my hope and my aim!

O my wish and my want!

By Your might, I find no one but You to forgive my sins

and I see none but You to mend my brokenness!

I have subjected myself to You in repeated turning,

I have humbled myself to You in abasement.

If You cast me out from Your door, in whom shall I take shelter?

If You repell me from Your side, in whom shall I seek refuge?

O my grief at my ignominy and disgrace!

O my sorrow at my evil works and what I have committed!

I ask You, O Forgiver of great sins,

O Mender of broken bones,

to overlook my ruinous misdeeds

and cover my disgraceful secret thoughts!

At the witnessing place of the Resurrection, empty me not of the coolness of Your pardon and forgiveness,

and strip me not of Your beautiful forbearance and covering!

My God, let the cloud of Your mercy cast its shadow upon my sins

and send the billow of Your clemency flowing over my faults!

My God, does the fugitive servant return to anyone other than his Master?

Or does anyone grant him sanctuary from his Master’s wrath other than his Master Himself?

My God, if remorse for sins is a repentance,

I – by Your might – am one of the remorseful!

If praying forgiveness for offenses is an alleviation,

I am one of those who pray forgiveness!

To You I return that You may be well pleased!

My God, through Your power over me, turn toward me,

through Your clemency toward me, pardon me,

and through Your knowledge of me, be gentle toward me!

My God, You are He who has opened a door to Your pardon and named it ‘repentance’,

for You said, Repent to God with unswerving repentance.

What is the excuse of him who remains heedless of entering the door after its opening?

My God, though the sins of Your servant are ugly,

Your pardon is beautiful.

My God, I am not the first to have disobeyed You, and You turned toward him,

or to have sought to attain Your favour, and You were munificent toward him.

O Responder to the distressed!

O Remover of injury!

O Great in goodness!

O Knower of everything secret!

O Beautiful through covering over!

I seek Your munificence and Your generosity to intercede with You,

I seek Your side and Your showing mercy to mediate with You,

so grant my supplication,

disappoint not my hope in You,

accept my repentance,

and hide my offense,

through Your kindness and mercy,

O Most Merciful of the merciful

Ziyara / Supplication

Supplication of Imam ‘Ali (a) in the Mosque of Kufa in English

In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.
O Allah, I ask You for protection on the day when property will not avail, nor sons except he who comes with a heart free (from evil) (Qur’an 26:88) And I ask You for protection on the day when the unjust one will bite his hands saying: O would that I had taken a way with the messenger(Qur’an 25:27)
And I ask You for protection on the day when the guilty shall be recognized by their marks so they shall be seized by the forelocks and the feet (Qur’an 55:41). And I ask You for protection on the day when a father shall not give any satisfaction for his son nor shall the child give any satisfaction for his father, Surely the promise of Allah is true (Qur’an 31:33)
And I ask You for protection on the day when the unjust shall not benefit from their excuse and for them is curse and for them is the evil abode (Qur’an 40:52) And I ask You for protection on the day when no soul shall control anything for (another) soul and the command on that day shall be entirely Allah’s (Qur’an 82:19)
And I ask You for protection on the day when a man shall flee from his brother, and his mother, his father, his spouse, and his children, each one of them on that day will have a concern which will occupy him (Qur’an 80:34) And I ask You for protection on the day when the guilty will wish to redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by (sacrificing) his children, and the near of kin who gave him shelter and all those that are in the earth (wising) that this might deliver him by no means!
My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Master and I am the Slave, and who else can be merciful to the slave except the Master? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Owner and I am the one owned by You, and who else can be merciful to the owned except the owner? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Mighty and I am the low, and who else can be merciful to the low except the Mighty?
My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Creator and I am the creature, and who else can be merciful to the creature except the Creator? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Glorious and I am the miserable, and who else can be merciful to the miserable except the Glorious? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Powerful and I am the weak, and who else can be merciful to the weak except the Powerful?
My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Wealthy and I am the Poor, and who else can be merciful to the poor except the Wealthy? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Bestower and I am the beggar, and who else can be merciful to the beggar except the Bestower?
My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Living and I am the dead, and who else can be merciful to the dead except the Living? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Eternal and I am the transient, and who else can be merciful to the transient except the Eternal? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Permanent and I am the short-lived, and who else can be merciful to the short-lived except the Permanent?
My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Provider and I am the blessed, and who else can be merciful to the blessed except the Provider? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Generous and I am the miser, and who else can be merciful to the miser except the Generous? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Healer and I am the afflicted, and who else can be merciful to the afflicted except the Healer?
My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Great and I am the insignificant, and who else can be merciful to the insignificant except the Great? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Leading and I am the straying, and who else can be merciful to the straying except the Leading? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Merciful and I am the one shown mercy, and who else can be merciful to the one shown mercy except the Merciful? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Authority and I am the tried, and who else can be merciful to the tried except the Authority?
My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Guide and I am the confused, and who else can be merciful to the confused except the Guide? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Forgiver and I am the sinner, and who else can be merciful to the sinner except the Forgiver? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Victor and I am the defeated, and who else can be merciful to the defeated except the Victor? My Lord, O my Lord, You are the Nourisher and I am the nourished, and who else can be merciful to the nourished except the Nourisher?
My Lord, O my Lord, You are the High-handed and I am the humble, and who else can be merciful to humble the except the High-handed My Lord, O my Lord, have mercy on me by Your mercy, and be pleased with me by Your Generosity and Your Magnanimity and Your Grace, O the Generous, and Beneficent, O the Almighty and the Benefactor, By your Mercy, O the most Merciful of the Merciful.

Ziyara / Supplication

Al-Sha’baniyya Supplication in English

In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.

O Allah, bless Muhammad and his family, and hear my supplication when I supplicate to You, and hear my call when I call You, and turn to me when I whisper to You; because I had escaped to You and I stand before You, in need to You, imploring You, hoping the reward You have for me; and You know what is in my heart, and You are aware of my wish, and You know me; and my route and my destination, and what I want to start my speech with, and what I want to utter my requests, and what I hope for my destination, are not hidden to You.

And O my master, Your decisions about what will be on me, till the end of my life, my hidden and my public, are applied to me. And my gain and my loss, and my advantage and my disadvantage are in Your hand, not in hand of anyone other than You. O my God, if You deprive me, then who will provide sustenance to me? And if You forsake me, then who will help me? O my God, I seek Your protection from Your anger and the arrival of Your wrath. O my God, if I was not befitting Your mercy, but You befit to endow me with Your vast munificence. O my God, it’s like I am standing before You, shaded by my complete reliance on You, then You said what is befitting You, and covered me with Your forgiveness. O my God, if You forgive, then who is better suited than You to that?

And if my time is close and my deeds haven’t made me close to You, so I made the confession of sin my means toward You. O my God, I oppressed to my soul by my attention to it (that I let it do what it wants), so woe to it if You don’t forgive it.

O my God, Your kindness to me never ceased in my lifetime, so don’t discontinue Your kindness in my death. O my God, how I despair of Your good care of me after my death, when You did not guard me but beautifully in my life. O my God, guard my affairs as befits You and turn to me with Your munificence, to a sinner that his ignorance had drowned him. O my God, You have concealed sins for me in the world and I am in more need for its conceal by You for me in the other world; when You don’t reveal them for anyone of Your righteous servants, so don’t disgrace me in the day of resurrection in the presence of the leaders of the witnesses.

O my God, Your endowment extended my wishes, and Your forgiveness is better than my deeds. O my God, so delight me with Your encounter, in the day in which You will judge between Your servants. O my God, my excuse to You, is the excuse of the one who is not needless of the acceptance of his excuse, so accept my excuse, O the most munificent one whom the sinners excuse to. O my God, don’t reject my wish, and don’t disappoint my request, and don’t cut my hope and asking from Yourself.

O my God, if You wanted my shame, You wouldn’t guide me, and if You wanted my disgrace You wouldn’t secure me. O my God, I don’t believe You will disappoint me in a request that I spent my life requesting it from You. O my God, so the praise is for You permanently, permanently, perpetually, eternally, growing and not diminishing, as You like and please.

O my God, if You hold me because of my crimes, I hold to Your forgiveness; and if You hold me because of my sins, I hold to Your pardon, and if You enter me to the fire I will inform its inmates that I love You. O my God, if my deeds are little compared to Your true obedience, but my wish is great compared to the true hope for You. O my God, how I return disappointed from Your presence, deprived, while my good thought about Your endowment was that You will return me with salvation, forgiven.

O my God, I spent my life in the greed of neglecting You, and decayed my youth in the drunkenness of divergence from You. Then, O my God, I don’t wake up in the days of my dare against You and my going in the way of Your anger.

O my God, I am Your servant and the child of Your servant, standing in front of You, relying on Your munificence to You. O my God, I am a servant dissociating to You from what I have been confronting You because of my low shame from Your vision, and I request Your forgiveness because forgiveness is a description of Your munificence.

O my God, I don’t have the strength to move from disobeying You, except when You woke me up to Your love, and I was as You wanted me to be, then I thanked You for entering me to Your munificence, and purifying my hearth from the filth of neglecting You.

O my God, look upon me the looking upon whom You called him and he answered You, and appointed him with Your help and he obeyed You. O the near one who doesn’t avoid the daring against him, and O the generous who is not stingy with the one who hopes his reward. O my God, grant me a heart which its passion approaches it to You; and a tongue which truth is raised to You; and a vision which rightfulness brings it near You.

O my God, the one who is known by You is not unknown, and the one who seeks Your shelter is not forsaken, and the one who You turn to, is not a slave. O my God, indeed the one who seeks way by You is enlightened, and indeed the one who holds fast to You is assisted. And I have took Your shelter, O my God, so don’t disappoint my hope from Your mercy and don’t ban me from Your kindness.

O my God, place me, among Your loyal people, in the position of someone who hopes for the excess of Your love. And, O my God, inspire me the passion to Your remembrance with Your remembrance, and put my effort in the happiness of achieving Your attributes, and Your holy place. O my God, I invoke You by Yourself that You join me to the place of the people obedient to You, and to the nice abode of Your pleasure, because I can neither defend nor I can benefit myself.

O my God, I am Your weak sinner servant, and Your penitently returning slave, so don’t make me one of whom You turned Your face against, and their oblivion banned them from Your forgiveness. O my God, grant me the perfect separation (from everything) towards You, and illuminate the eyes of our hearts with the light of their looking at You, till the eyes of the hearts rip the veils of light, and reach the core of magnificence, and our souls become suspended in the majesty of Your holiness; and O my God, make me one of whom You called and he answered You, and You noted him and he thunderstruck by Your majesty, then You whispered to them secretly and they worked for You openly.

O my God, I have not dominated the disappointment of despairs over my good thought and my hope haven’t been cut from Your beautiful munificence. O my God, if the sins have lowered me before You, but forgive me for my nice reliance on You. O my God, if my faults have reduced me from the beauties of Your attention, but the certainty to the munificence of Your favor, have wakened me. O my God, if the negligence have made me oblivious of the preparation for Your encounter, but the knowledge about the munificence of Your bounties, have wakened me. O my God, if Your great punishment invites me to the fire, but Your sincere reward have invited me to the paradise.

O my God, so I ask You, and pray to You, and turn to You, and I ask You to bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, and that You make me one of who continues Your remembrance, and who do not break Your covenant, and who do not neglect Your thanking, and who do not belittle Your order. And, O my God, attach me to the most delight majesty of Yours, so I know You, and perverse from everything other than You, and I be fearful of You, and be attentive to You, O the owner of the majesty and munificence; and may Allah bless Muhammad, His Prophet and his pure family and greets them, a great greeting.

Ziyara / Supplication