ٌ.PrPraise is due to Allah, the First without anyone before Him, the Last without anyone after Him, the One Whom visions fall short of seeing, Whose Attributes are too feeble to describe. He initiated creation with His power manifestly, forming them according to His will greatly: They cannot postpone what He advanced to them, nor can they advance whatever He deems to lag behind them. For each of their souls He made a known sustenance allotted from His sustenance which is never diminished by anyone who wants to decrease it, nor does it increase if anyone wishes to increase it.

Praise is due to Allah: If He withholds from His servants the knowledge of how to praise Him for the successive boons with which He tests them, for all His visible blessings, they would have dealt with His boons without praising Him, they would have seen an expanse of His sustenance without thanking Him. Had they been as such, they would have exited the limits of humanity up to the extent of bestiality and they would have become just as He described in His Glorious Book: “They are like cattle. Nay! They even more straying.”

Praise is due to Allah Who guided us to repentance of which we could not have benefited had it not been due to His favor. Had we uphold, due to His favor, only repentance, He would have fared beautifully with us, His goodness to us would have been great, His favor to us would have been magnanimous. But such is not His way with regard to repentance for those who came before us. He removed from our shoulders that which we cannot bear. He has not imposed on us save what we are able to do. He has not mandated on us anything except what is easy, leaving no excuse for any of us nor a pretext. Therefore, whoever among us who perishes does so because he abandoned repentance, and whoever earns happiness is one who desires it (repentance).

Praise is due to Allah by everything with which He is praised by the lowest rank of His angels and by the greatest of His creation. He pleases those who praise Him, a praise that surpasses all other praise, similar to the way our Lord has praised all His creation. Praise further belongs to Him wherever there is a blessing with which He has blessed us, a blessing for us and for all His servants, the past ones and the present, as many times as there are things in His knowledge, in place of each one of which multiple manifolds, for eternity, forever, till the Judgment Day, a praise that has no end, nor is there a count for it, nor is there a limit for its end, nor is there an end for its duration.

Praise is due to Allah Who has blessed us with Muhammed, His Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah with him and his progeny, from among all past nations and previous centuries, through His might before which nothing stands, no matter how great it may be, and nothing escapes it no matter how minute it may be. He sealed through us all those whom He created, making them witnesses against anyone who denies this blessing, rendering us through His boon many more than those who are few.

6.  Lord! Bless Muhammed, Your custodian over Your revelation, the choicest from among Your creation, the one whom You particularly chose from among Your servants, the Imam of mercy, the leader to goodness, the key to bliss, just as he dedicated himself solely to fulfill Your command, thus exposing his body to peril, fighting while seeking Your Pleasure his family and severing while bringing to life Your creed his relationship with kit and kin, till he achieved his objective with regard to Your foes, invading them in their own homes, attacking them in their quarters till Your affair manifested itself and Your word rose high though the polytheists were avert thereto.

O One the wonders of Whose greatness never end! Bless Muhammed and his progeny and shield us from disbelieving in Your Greatness. O One the duration of Whose domain never ends, bless Muhammed and his progeny and emancipate us from Your wrath. And O the treasures of Whose mercy are never exhausted, bless Muhammed and his progeny and allot for us a share of Your mercy.

O One from seeing Him visions are never severed, bless Muhammed and his progeny and bring us closer to You. And O One compared to thoughts of Whom all other thoughts minimize, bless Muhammed and his progeny and bestow Your honors on us. O One with Whom all hidden reports are revealed, bless Muhammed and his progeny and do not subject us to exposure with You.

Lord! Make us independent of the gifts of those who gift through Your own gift, spare us the loneliness of those who sever their ties by maintaining Your tie with us, so we may not desire anyone while You grant us, nor do we miss anyone due to Your favors. O Lord! Bless Muhammed and his progeny and make plans in our favor rather than against us, guide us and do not abandon us.

Lord! Bless Muhammed and his progeny and save us from Your wrath, protect us, guide us to Your paths, do not distance us from You, surely one whom You thus protect is safe, one whom You guide knows, and one whom You bring closer to You wins. Lord! Bless Muhammed and his progeny and spare us the edge of time’s calamities, the evil of Satan’s traps and the bitterness of the might of the man of power.

Lord! Those who are contented are satisfied through Your might, so bless Muhammed and his progeny and meet our needs, for those who give do so due to the favor of Your endeavor; so bless Muhammed and his progeny and grant us; surely those the guided ones are guided through the light of Your countenance. Bless Muhammed and his progeny, then, and do guide us.
 

Lord! Those whom You befriend are not harmed by the betrayal of those who betray; those whom You grant do not fall short on account of those who withhold; those whom You guide are not tempted by the misguidance of those who misguide. So, bless Muhammed and his progeny and fortify us with Your Exaltation from the schemes of (some of) Your servants. Make us, through Your outpuring, in need of none save You, and guide us to the paths of righteousness through Your guidance.

Lord! Bless Muhammed and his progeny and make our hearts safe by remembering Your greatness, the symmetry of our bodies by appreciating Your blessing, the eloquence of our tongue by describing Your boons. Lord! Bless Muhammed and his progeny and count us among Your callers who call others towards You, Your guides who guide others towards You, and make us among those who are elite with You, O most Merciful One!

Lord! Spare the revered scribing angels the trouble of having to record our ill deeds, fill our books of deeds for us with our good deeds, and do not shame us with them because of our wrongdoings. Lord! Allot for us in each hour a portion of worshiping You, a share of thanking You, and a truthful witness from among Your angels.

Lord! Bless Muhammed and his progeny and safeguard us from before us, behind us, on their right and on their left and from all our sides, a safeguarding that protects us against disobeying You, a guidance to obeying You, a means to earn Your love.

Lord! Bless Muhammed and his progeny and enable us this day and night and in all our days to do what is good, to abandon what is evil, to express gratitude for the blessings, to follow the paths of the Sunnah, to avoid innovations, to enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong, to protect Islam, to look down at falsehood and to humiliate it, to support and back what is right, to guide one who is misled, to help the weak and to offer relief to one who is a dire need for it.

Lord! Bless Muhammed and his progeny and make our day the most blessed which we have ever seen, the best companion whom we accompanied, the best time that shaded us, and count us among those who are the most pleased from among those who went through the night and the day from among all Your creation, the most grateful for Your blessings, the most straight due to the legislation which you enacted and among those who are the most cautious with regard to Your warnings.

Lord! I plead to You to bear witness, and You suffice as the witness, and I implore Your heavens and earth and all Your angels and other creation whom You permit to live in them on this day, at this time, in this night, at this place, that I testify that You are Allah besides Whom there is no other god, standing with justice, fair in ruling, affectionate towards the servants, owner of the domain, merciful towards the creation, and that Muhammed is Your servant, messenger and the best of Your creation. You made him the bearer of Your message, so he fulfilled it, and You ordered him to advise his nation, so he advised it.

Lord! Bless Muhammed and his progeny more than You blessed any of Your creation, and grant him the best of what You have given any of Your servants. Reward him on our behalf in the best and the most generous rewards which You awarded any of Your prophets on behalf of his nation. You are the One Who grants boons, Who forgives the great sins; You are the most Merciful of any merciful one; so bless Muhammed and his good, pure, choicest and most righteous progeny.

ًو السلام عليكم