Islam Guidance

42-His Supplication upon Completing a Reading of the Qur'an

His Supplication upon Completing a Reading of the Qur'an

1  O God,
          Thou hast helped me complete Thy Book,
          which Thou sent down as a light  and appointed as
           a guardian over every book Thou hast sent down,
           preferring it over every narrative
            which Thou hast recounted,

2             a separator, through which Thou hast separated
           Thy lawful from Thy unlawful,
           a Qur'an, through which Thou hast made plain
            the approaches to Thy ordinances,
            a book, which Thou hast distinguished very distinctly
            for Thy servants,
           a revelation, which Thou hast sent down,
           a sending down,
            upon Thy prophet Muhammad
             (Thy blessings be upon him and his Household).
3            Thou appointed it
           a light through following which
           we may be guided from the shadows
           of error and ignorance,
           a healing for him
           who turns ear toward hearing it
          with the understanding of attestation,
          a just balance
          whose tongue does not incline away from truth,
          a light of guidance
          whose proof is not extinguished before
          the witnesses,
            and a guidepost of deliverance, so that
            he who repairs straightway to its prescription
            will not go astray
           and he who clings to its preservation's handhold
            will not be touched by the hands of disasters.
4  O God,
          since Thou hast given us help to recite it
          and made smooth the roughness of our tongues
          through the beauty of its expression,
          place us among those who
          observe it as it should be observed,
         serve Thee by adhering in submission
          to the firm text of its verses,
          and seek refuge in admitting both its ambiguous parts
          and the elucidations of its clear signs!
5  O God,
          Thou sent it down upon Thy prophet Muhammad
            (God bless him and his household) in summary form,
          Thou inspired him with the science of its wonders
          to complement it,
          Thou made us the heirs of its knowledge
           as interpreters,
           Thou made us to surpass
           him who is ignorant of its knowledge,
          and Thou gave us strength over it
            to raise us above those not able to carry it.
6  O God,
          just as Thou hast appointed our hearts
          as its carriers
          and made known to us through Thy mercy
           its nobility and excellence,
          so also bless Muhammad, its preacher,
          and his Household, its guardians,
          and place us among those who confess that it has come from Thee,
           lest doubt about attesting to it assail us,
          or deviation from its straightforward path shake us!
7  O God,
          bless Muhammad and his Household
           and make us one of those who
          hold fast to its cord,
          seek haven from its ambiguities in its
           fortified stronghold,
           rest in the shadow of its wing,
           find guidance in the brightness of its morning,
           follow the shining of its disclosure,
           acquire light from its lamp,
           and beg not guidance from any other!
8  O God,
          just as through it
          Thou hast set up Muhammad as a guidepost to point to Thee
           and through his Household
          Thou hast made clear Thy good pleasure's roads to Thee,
           so also bless Muhammad and his Household
           and make the Qur'an
            our mediation to the noblest stations
            of Thy honour,
           a ladder by which we may climb
             to the place of safety,
              a cause for our being repaid
            with deliverance at the Plain of Resurrection,
             and a means whereby we may reach
            the bliss of the House of Permanence!
9  O God,
          bless Muhammad and his Household,
          lessen for us through the Qur'an the weight of heavy sins,
          give to us the excellent qualities of the pious,
          and make us follow the tracks of those who stood before Thee
         in the watches of the night and the ends of the day,
           such that Thou purifiest us from every defilement
          through its purification
          and makest us to follow the tracks of those
           who have taken illumination from its light
          and whom expectation has not distracted from works,
          cutting them off through its delusions' deceptions!
10  O God,
           bless Muhammad and his Household
          and appoint the Qur'an
          for us an intimate
           in the shadows of nights
          and a guardian
          against the instigations of Satan
          and confusing thoughts,
          for our feet an obstruction
          from passing to acts of disobedience,
           for our tongues a silencer without blight
          preventing a plunge into falsehood,
           for our limbs a restrainer
          from committing sins,
          and for the scrutiny of heedfulness
          rolled up in heedlessness
         an unroller,
        such that Thou attachest to our hearts
          the understanding of the Qur'an's wonders
           and its restraining similitudes
           which immovable mountains in all their solidity
           were too weak to carry!
11  O God,
           bless Muhammad and his Household
           and through the Qur'an
           make permanent the rightness
           of our outward selves,
                veil the ideas of confusing thoughts
                 from the soundness of our innermost minds,
                 wash away the dirt of our hearts
                 and the ties of our heavy sins,
                 gather our scattered affairs,
                  quench the thirst of our burning heat
                  in the standing place of the presentation to Thee,
                  and clothe us in the robes of security
                 on the Day of the Greatest Terror at our uprising!
12  O God,
           bless Muhammad and his Household
           and through the Qur'an
           redress our lack - our destitution in poverty -
           drive toward us the comforts of life
           and an abundance of plentiful provisions,
           turn aside blameworthy character traits
           and base moral qualities,
           and preserve us from the pit of unbelief
           and the motives for hypocrisy,
          such that the Qur'an may be
          for us at the resurrection a leader
           to Thy good pleasure and Thy gardens,
           for us in this world a protector
           against Thy displeasure and transgressing
           Thy bounds
            and for what is with Thee a witness
            by its declaring lawful the lawful
            and its declaring unlawful the unlawful!
13  O God,
           bless Muhammad and his Household
          and through the Qur'an make easy for our souls at death
           the distress of the driving,
           the effort of the moaning,
           and the succession of the rattling,
          when souls reach the throats
          and it is said, 'Where is the enchanter?';
           when the angel of death discloses himself
           to seize them from behind the veils of unseen things,
           letting loose at them from the bow of destinies
           the arrows of the terror of lonesome separation,
           and mixing for them from sudden death
          a cup poisoned to the taste;
           and when departure and release for the hereafter come close to us,
          works become collars around the necks,
           and the graves become the haven
          until the appointed time of the Day of Encounter!
14  O God,
           bless Muhammad and his Household,
           make blessed for us the arrival at the house of decay
           and the drawn out residence between the layers of the earth,
           appoint the graves, after separation from this world,
           the best of our waystations,
           make roomy for us through Thy mercy the narrowness of our tombs,
           and disgrace us not among those present at the Resurrection
          through our ruinous sins!
15  Through the Qur'an
           have mercy upon the lowliness of our station
           at the standing place of presentation to Thee,
           make firm the slips of our feet
           during the shaking of the bridge across hell
           on the day of passage over it,
           illuminate the darkness of our graves
           before the Uprising,
           and deliver us from every distress on the Day of Resurrection
           and from the hardships of terrors on the Day of Disaster!
16  Whiten our faces
          on the day when the faces of wrongdoers are blackened
           during the Day of Regret and Remorse,
           appoint love for us in the breasts of the faithful,
           and make not life for us troublesome!
17  O God,
          bless Muhammad, Thy servant and Thy messenger,
          just as He delivered Thy message,
          executed Thy command,
          and counselled Thy servants!
18  O God,
          on the Day of Resurrection make our Prophet
            (Thy blessings be upon him and his Household)
             the nearest of the prophets to Thee in seat,
            the ablest of them before Thee with intercession,
            the greatest of them with Thee in measure,
            and the most eminent of them with Thee in rank!
19  O God,
           bless Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad,
           ennoble his edifice,
           magnify his proof,
           make weighty his balance,
           accept his intercession,
           bring near his mediation,
           whiten his face,
           complete his light,
           and raise his degree!
20  Make us live according to his Sunna,
           make us die in his creed,
           take us on his road,
          make us travel his path,
          place us among the people who obey him,
           muster us in his band,
           lead us to up his pool,
          and give us to drink of his cup!
21  And bless Muhammad and his Household,
           with a blessing
          through which Thou wilt take him to the most excellent
            of Thy good, Thy bounty, and Thy generosity
            for which he hopes!
           Thou art Possessor of boundless mercy
           and generous bounty.
22  O God,
           repay him for
           Thy messages which he delivered,
           Thy signs which he passed on,
           the good counsel he gave to Thy servants,
           and the struggle he undertook in Thy way,
           with the best Thou hast repaid any of Thy angels brought nigh
           and Thy prophets sent out and chosen!
           And upon him and his Household,
         the good, the pure,
         be peace, God's mercy, and His blessings!

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