| 20) His Supplication on Noble Moral Traits and Acts Pleasing to God |
| In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful. |
| 1- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, |
| cause my faith to reach the most perfect faith, |
| make my certainty the most excellent certainty, |
| and take my intention to the best of intentions and my works to the best of works! |
| 2- O God, complete my intention through Thy gentleness, |
| rectify my certainty through what is with Thee, |
| and set right what is corrupt in me through Thy power! |
| 3- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, |
| spare me the concerns which distract me, |
| employ me in that about which Thou wilt ask me tomorrow, |
| and let me pass my days in that for which Thou hast created me! |
| Free me from need, expand Thy provision toward me, |
| and tempt me not with ingratitude! |
| Exalt me and afflict me not with pride! |
| Make me worship Thee and corrupt not my worship with self-admiration! |
| Let good flow out from my hands upon the people |
| and efface it not by my making them feel obliged! |
| Give me the highest moral traits |
| and preserve me from vainglory! |
| 4- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, |
| raise me not a single degree before the people |
| without lowering me its like in myself |
| and bring about no outward exaltation for me |
| without an inward abasement in myself to the same measure! |
| 5- O God, bless Muhammad and Muhammad’s Household, |
| give me to enjoy a sound guidance |
| which I seek not to replace, |
| a path of truth from which I swerve not, |
| and an intention of right conduct in which I have no doubts! |
| Let me live as long as my life is a free gift in obeying Thee, |
| but if my life should become a pasture for Satan, |
| seize me to Thyself |
| before Thy hatred overtakes me |
| or Thy wrath against be becomes firm! |
| 6- O God, deposit in me no quality for which I will be faulted, |
| unless Thou settest it right, |
| no flaw for which I will be blamed, unless Thou makest it beautiful, |
| no deficient noble trait, unless Thou completest it! |
| 7- O God, bless Muhammad and Muhammad’s Household and replace for me |
| the animosity of the people of hatred with love, |
| the envy of the people of insolence with affection, |
| the suspicion of the people of righteousness with trust, |
| the enmity of those close with friendship, |
| the disrespect of womb relatives with devotion, |
| the abandonment of relatives with help, |
| the attachment of flatterers with love set right, |
| the rejection of fellows with generous friendliness, |
| and the bitterness of the fear of wrongdoers with the sweetness of security! |
| 8- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, |
| appoint for me a hand against him who wrongs me, |
| a tongue against him who disputes with me, |
| and a victory over him who stubbornly resists me! |
| Give me guile against him who schemes against me, |
| power over him who oppresses me, |
| refutation of him who reviles me, |
| and safety from him who threatens me! |
| Grant me success to obey him who points me straight |
| and follow him who guides me right! |
| 9- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household |
| and point me straight to resist him who is dishonest toward me with good counsel, |
| repay him who separates from me with gentle devotion, |
| reward him who deprives me with free giving, |
| recompense him who cuts me off |
| with joining, oppose him who slanders me with excellent mention, |
| give thanks for good, |
| and shut my eyes to evil! |
| 10- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, |
| adorn me with the adornment of the righteous, |
| and clothe me in the ornaments of the godfearing, through |
| spreading justice, restraining rage, |
| quenching the flame of hate, bringing together the people of separation, |
| correcting discord, |
| spreading about good behaviour |
| covering faults, |
| mildness of temper, |
| lowering the wing, |
| beauty of conduct, gravity of bearing, |
| agreeableness in comportment, precedence in reaching excellence, |
| preferring bounteousness, |
| refraining from condemnation, |
| bestowing bounty on the undeserving, |
| speaking the truth, though it be painful, |
| making little of the good in my words and deeds, though it be much, |
| and making much of the evil in my words and deeds, though it be little! |
| Perfect this for me through lasting obedience, |
| holding fast to the community, |
| and rejecting the people of innovation |
| and those who act in accordance with original opinions! |
| 11- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, |
| appoint for me Thy widest provision in my old age |
| and Thy strongest strength when I am exhausted, |
| try me not with laziness in worship of Thee, |
| blindness toward Thy path, |
| undertaking what opposes love for Thee, |
| joining with him who has separated himself from Thee, |
| and separating from him who has joined himself to Thee! |
| 12- O God, make me leap to Thee in times of distress, |
| ask from Thee in needs, |
| and plead to Thee in misery! |
| Tempt me not to seek help from other than Thee when I am distressed, |
| to humble myself in asking from someone else when I am poor, |
| or to plead with someone less than Thee when I fear, |
| for then I would deserve Thy abandonment, Thy withholding, and Thy turning away, |
| O Most Merciful of the merciful! |
| 13- O God, make |
| the wishing, the doubt, and the envy which Satan throws into my heart |
| a remembrance of Thy mightiness, |
| a reflection upon Thy power, |
| and a devising against Thy enemy! |
| Make everything he causes to pass over my tongue, |
| the indecent or ugly words, the maligning of good repute, the indecent or ugly words, the maligning of good repute, |
| the false witness, |
| the speaking ill of an absent man of faith or the reviling of one present, |
| and all things similar – a speech in praise of Thee, |
| a pursual of eulogizing Thee, |
| an excursion in magnifying Thee, |
| a thanksgiving for Thy favour, |
| an acknowledgement of Thy beneficence, |
| and an enumeration of Thy kindnesses! |
| 14- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, |
| let me not be wronged while Thou canst repel from me, |
| let me not do wrong while Thou art powerful over holding me back, |
| let me not be misguided while Thou art able to guide me, |
| let me not be poor while with Thee is my plenty, |
| let me not be insolent while from Thee comes my wealth! |
| 15- O God, I come to Thy forgiveness, |
| I go straight to Thy pardon, |
| I yearn for Thy forbearance, |
| and I trust in Thy bounty, |
| but there is nothing with me to make me warrant Thy forgiveness, |
| nothing in my works to make me merit Thy pardon, |
| and nothing on my behalf after I judge my soul but Thy bounty, |
| so bless Muhammad and his Household and bestow Thy bounty upon me! |
| 16- O God, make my speech be guidance, |
