Forty: His Supplication when Death was Mentioned
Forty: His Supplication when Death was Mentioned
اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ اكْفِنَا طُولَ الْأَمَلِ، وَ قَصّرْهُ عَنّا بِصِدْقِ الْعَمَلِ حَتّى لَا نُؤَمّلَ اسْتِتْمَامَ سَاعَةٍ بَعْدَ سَاعَةٍ، وَ لَا اسْتِيفَاءَ يَوْمٍ بَعْدَ يَوْمٍ، وَ لَا اتّصَالَ نَفَسٍ بِنَفَسٍ، وَ لَا لُحُوقَ قَدَمٍ بِقَدَمٍ وَ سَلّمْنَا مِنْ غُرُورِهِ، وَ آمِنّا مِنْ شُرُورِهِ، وَ انْصِبِ الْمَوْتَ بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا نَصْباً، وَ لَا تَجْعَلْ ذِكْرَنَا لَهُ غِبّاً وَ اجْعَلْ لَنَا مِنْ صَالِحِ الْأَعْمَالِ عَمَلًا نَسْتَبْطِئُ مَعَهُ الْمَصِيرَ إِلَيْكَ، وَ نَحْرِصُ لَهُ عَلَى وَشْكِ اللّحَاقِ بِكَ حَتّى يَكُونَ الْمَوْتُ مَأْنَسَنَا الّذِي نَأْنَسُ بِهِ، وَ مَأْلَفَنَا الّذِي نَشْتَاقُ إِلَيْهِ، وَ حَامّتَنَا الّتِي نُحِبّ الدّنُوّ مِنْهَا فَإِذَا أَوْرَدْتَهُ عَلَيْنَا وَ أَنْزَلْتَهُ بِنَا فَأَسْعِدْنَا بِهِ زَائِراً، وَ آنِسْنَا بِهِ قَادِماً، وَ لَا تُشْقِنَا بِضِيَافَتِهِ، وَ لَا تُخْزِنَا بِزِيَارَتِهِ، وَ اجْعَلْهُ بَاباً مِنْ أَبْوَابِ مَغْفِرَتِكَ، وَ مِفْتَاحاً مِنْ مَفَاتِيحِ رَحْمَتِكَ أَمِتْنَا مُهْتَدِينَ غَيْرَ ضَالّينَ، طَائِعِينَ غَيْرَ مُسْتَكْرِهِينَ، تَائِبِينَ غَيْرَ عَاصِينَ وَ لَا مُصِرّينَ، يَا ضَامِنَ جَزَاءِ الْمُحْسِنِينَ، وَ مُسْتَصْلِحَ عَمَلِ الْمُفْسِدِينَ.
O God,
Bless Muhammad and his Household, spare us drawn out expectations and cut them short in us through sincerity of works, that we may not hope expectantly for completing an hour after an hour, closing a day after a day, joining a breath to a breath, or overtaking a step with a step! Keep us safe from the delusions of expectations, make us secure from their evils, set up death before us in display. and let not our remembering of it come and go! Appoint for us from among the righteous works a work through which we will feel the homecoming to Thee as slow and crave a quick joining with Thee, so that death may be our intimate abode with which we are intimate, our familiar place toward which we yearn, and our next of kin whose coming we love! When Thou bringest it to us and sendest it down upon us, make us happy with it as a visitor, comfort us with its arrival, make us not wretched through entertaining it, degrade us not through its visit, and appoint it one of the gates to Thy forgiveness and the keys to Thy mercy! Make us die guided, not astray, obedient, not averse, repentant, not disobedient or persisting, O He who guarantees the repayment of the good-doers and seeks to set right the work of the corrupt!
Al-Sahifa Al-Sajjadiyyah, p. 172
