- Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H): Whenever one of you is needy and brings that to other people, he will not be satisfied. and Whenever someone is needy and brings that to Lord, he shall give him what he wants. sooner or later.
- Imam Sadiq (As.): Whenever you had tenderness in your heart, Pray. because your heart doesn't get tender unless it's pure.
- I told to Imam Baqir (A.S): “What is the meaning of “truly, Ibrahim was awwah and patient”? He replied: “Awwah means (the one who is) praying (to) and wailing (for God) a lot.””
- “Two people, who have acted alike, enter the heaven, but one of them sees the other one in a higher place. Then, he says: O’ Lord! How come has he a superior place in comparison to me while we acted alike? God the Almighty replies: “because he asked Me (whatever he needed) and you did not do that”.
- “The most knowledgeable person to God is the one who asks more from Him”
- “Whoever prays a lot, the angels say: this voice is familiar (to us) and this is the prayer which is accepted and this is the need which is provided”
- “There is no servant who goes to a land and opens their hands and praises God and prays, unless God fills the land with his rewards, whether it is vast or tiny”
- If you knew god the way you should’ve known, Mountains definitely will be moved by your prayers.
- Crying out of fear of god is the key to his mercy, it’s a sign for his acceptance and it’s a door to answering (your prayers)
- Pray to god and believe in his answeres. But understand that god wont accept prays from an unwitting oblivious heart.
Forty Four: His Supplication for the Coming of the Month of Ramadan
Forty Four: His Supplication for the Coming of the Month of Ramadan
الْحَمْدُ لِلّهِ الّذِي هَدَانَا لِحَمْدِهِ، وَ جَعَلَنَا مِنْ أَهْلِهِ لِنَكُونَ لِإِحْسَانِهِ مِنَ الشّاكِرِينَ، وَ لِيَجْزِيَنَا عَلَى ذَلِكَ جَزَاءَ الْمُحْسِنِينَ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلّهِ الّذِي حَبَانَا بِدِينِهِ، وَ اخْتَصّنَا بِمِلّتِهِ، وَ سَبّلَنَا فِي سُبُلِ إِحْسَانِهِ لِنَسْلُكَهَا بِمَنّهِ إِلَى رِضْوَانِهِ، حَمْداً يَتَقَبّلُهُ مِنّا، وَ يَرْضَى بِهِ عَنّا وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلّهِ الّذِي جَعَلَ مِنْ تِلْكَ السّبُلِ شَهْرَهُ شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ، شَهْرَ الصّيَامِ، وَ شَهْرَ الْإِسْلَامِ، وَ شَهْرَ الطّهُورِ، وَ شَهْرَ التّمْحِيصِ، وَ شَهْرَ الْقِيَامِ الّذِي أُنْزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ، هُدًى لِلنّاسِ، وَ بَيّنَاتٍ مِنَ الْهُدَى وَ الْفُرْقَانِ فَأَبَانَ فَضِيلَتَهُ عَلَى سَائِرِ الشّهُورِ بِمَا جَعَلَ لَهُ مِنَ الْحُرُمَاتِ الْمَوْفُورَةِ، وَ الْفَضَائِلِ الْمَشْهُورَةِ، فَحَرّمَ فِيهِ مَا أَحَلّ فِي غَيْرِهِ إِعْظَاماً، وَ حَجَرَ فِيهِ الْمَطَاعِمَ وَ الْمَشَارِبَ إِكْرَاماً، وَ جَعَلَ لَهُ وَقْتاً بَيّناً لَا يُجِيزُ جَلّ وَ عَزّ أَنْ يُقَدّمَ قَبْلَهُ، وَ لَا يَقْبَلُ أَنْ يُؤَخّرَ عَنْهُ. ثُمّ فَضّلَ لَيْلَةً وَاحِدَةً مِنْ لَيَالِيهِ عَلَى لَيَالِي أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ، وَ سَمّاهَا لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ، تَنَزّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَ الرّوحُ فِيهَا بِإِذْنِ رَبّهِمْ مِنْ كُلّ أَمْرٍ سَلَامٌ، دَائِمُ الْبَرَكَةِ إِلَى طُلُوعِ الْفَجْرِ عَلَى مَنْ يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ بِمَا أَحْكَمَ مِنْ قَضَائِهِ. اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ أَلْهِمْنَا مَعْرِفَةَ فَضْلِهِ وَ إِجْلَالَ حُرْمَتِهِ، وَ التّحَفّظَ مِمّا حَظَرْتَ فِيهِ، وَ أَعِنّا عَلَى صِيَامِهِ بِكَفّ الْجَوَارِحِ عَنْ مَعَاصِيكَ، وَ اسْتِعْمَالِهَا فِيهِ بِمَا يُرْضِيكَ حَتّى لَا نُصْغِيَ بِأَسْمَاعِنَا إِلَى لَغْوٍ، وَ لَا نُسْرِعَ بِأَبْصَارِنَا إِلَى لَهْوٍ وَ حَتّى لَا نَبْسُطَ أَيْدِيَنَا إِلَى مَحْظُورٍ، وَ لَا نَخْطُوَ بِأَقْدَامِنَا إِلَى مَحْجُورٍ، وَ حَتّى لَا تَعِيَ بُطُونُنَا إِلّا مَا أَحْلَلْتَ، وَ لَا تَنْطِقَ أَلْسِنَتُنَا إِلّا بِمَا مَثّلْتَ، وَ لَا نَتَكَلّفَ إِلّا مَا يُدْنِي مِنْ ثَوَابِكَ، وَ لَا نَتَعَاطَى إِلّا الّذِي يَقِي مِنْ عِقَابِكَ، ثُمّ خَلّصْ ذَلِكَ كُلّهُ مِنْ رِئَاءِ الْمُرَاءِينَ، وَ سُمْعَةِ الْمُسْمِعِينَ، لَا نُشْرِكُ فِيهِ أَحَداً دُونَكَ، وَ لَا نَبْتَغِي فِيهِ مُرَاداً سِوَاكَ. اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ قِفْنَا فِيهِ عَلَى مَوَاقِيتِ الصّلَوَاتِ الْخَمْسِ بِحُدُودِهَا الّتِي حَدّدْتَ، وَ فُرُوضِهَا الّتِي فَرَضْتَ، وَ وَظَائِفِهَا الّتِي وَظّفْتَ، وَ أَوْقَاتِهَا الّتِي وَقّت وَ أَنْزِلْنَا فِيهَا مَنْزِلَةَ الْمُصِيبِينَ لِمَنَازِلِهَا، الْحَافِظِينَ لِأَرْكَانِهَا، الْمُؤَدّينَ لَهَا فِي أَوْقَاتِهَا عَلَى مَا سَنّهُ عَبْدُكَ وَ رَسُولُكَ صَلَوَاتُكَ عَلَيْهِ وَ آلِهِ فِي رُكُوعِهَا وَ سُجُودِهَا وَ جَمِيعِ فَوَاضِلِهَا عَلَى أَتَمّ الطّهُورِ وَ أَسْبَغِهِ، وَ أَبْيَنِ الْخُشُوعِ وَ أَبْلَغِهِ وَ وَفّقْنَا فِيهِ لِأَنْ نَصِلَ أَرْحَامَنَا بِالْبِرّ وَ الصّلَةِ، وَ أَنْ نَتَعَاهَدَ جِيرَانَنَا بِالْإِفْضَالِ وَ الْعَطِيّةِ، وَ أَنْ نُخَلّصَ أَمْوَالَنَا مِنَ التّبِعَاتِ، وَ أَنْ نُطَهّرَهَا بِإِخْرَاجِ الزّكَوَاتِ، وَ أَنْ نُرَاجِعَ مَنْ هَاجَرَنَا، وَ أَنْ نُنْصِفَ مَنْ ظَلَمَنَا، وَ أَنْ نُسَالِمَ مَنْ عَادَانَا حَاشَى مَنْ عُودِيَ فِيكَ وَ لَكَ، فَإِنّهُ الْعَدُوّ الّذِي لَا نُوَالِيهِ، وَ الْحِزْبُ الّذِي لَا نُصَافِيهِ وَ أَنْ نَتَقَرّبَ إِلَيْكَ فِيهِ مِنَ الْأَعْمَالِ الزّاكِيَةِ بِمَإ؛ععّّ تُطَهّرُنَا بِهِ مِنَ الذّنُوبِ، وَ تَعْصِمُنَا فِيهِ مِمّا نَسْتَأْنِفُ مِنَ الْعُيُوبِ، حَتّى لَا يُورِدَ عَلَيْكَ أَحَدٌ مِنْ مَلَائِكَتِكَ إِلّا دُونَ مَا نُورِدُ مِنْ أَبْوَابِ الطّاعَةِ لَكَ، وَ أَنْوَاعِ الْقُرْبَةِ إِلَيْكَ. اللّهُمّ إِنّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِحَقّ هَذَا الشّهْرِ، وَ بِحَقّ مَنْ تَعَبّدَ لَكَ فِيهِ مِنِ ابْتِدَائِهِ إِلَى وَقْتِ فَنَائِهِ مِنْ مَلَكٍ قَرّبْتَهُ، أَوْ نَبِيٍّ أَرْسَلْتَهُ، أَوْ عَبْدٍ صَالِحٍ اخْتَصَصْتَهُ، أَنْ تُصَلّيَ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ أَهّلْنَا فِيهِ لِمَا وَعَدْتَ أَوْلِيَاءَكَ مِنْ كَرَامَتِكَ، وَ أَوْجِبْ لَنَا فِيهِ مَا أَوْجَبْتَ لِأَهْلِ الْمُبَالَغَةِ فِي طَاعَتِكَ، وَ اجْعَلْنَا فِي نَظْمِ مَنِ اسْتَحَقّ الرّفِيعَ الْأَعْلَى بِرَحْمَتِكَ. اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ جَنّبْنَا الْإِلْحَادَ فِي تَوْحِيدِكَ، وَ الْتّقْصِيرَ فِي تَمْجِيدِكَ، وَ الشّكّ فِي دِينِكَ، وَ الْعَمَى عَنْ سَبِيلِكَ، وَ الْإِغْفَالَ لِحُرْمَتِكَ، وَ الِانْخِدَاعَ لِعَدُوّكَ الشّيْطَانِ الرّجِيمِ اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ إِذَا كَانَ لَكَ فِي كُلّ لَيْلَةٍ مِنْ لَيَالِي شَهْرِنَا هَذَا رِقَابٌ يُعْتِقُهَا عَفْوُكَ، أَوْ يَهَبُهَا صَفْحُكَ فَاجْعَلْ رِقَابَنَا مِنْ تِلْكَ الرّقَابِ، وَ اجْعَلْنَا لِشَهْرِنَا مِنْ خَيْرِ أَهْلٍ وَ أَصْحَابٍ. اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ امْحَقْ ذُنُوبَنَا مَعَ امّحَاقِ هِلَالِهِ، وَ اسْلَخْ عَنّا تَبِعَاتِنَا مَعَ انْسِلَاخِ أَيّامِهِ حَتّى يَنْقَضِيَ عَنّا وَ قَدْ صَفّيْتَنَا فِيهِ مِنَ الْخَطِيئَاتِ، وَ أَخْلَصْتَنَا فِيهِ مِنَ السّيّئَاتِ. اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، وَ إِنْ مِلْنَا فِيهِ فَعَدّلْنَا، وَ إِنْ زُغْنَا فِيهِ فَقَوّمْنَا، وَ إِنِ اشْتَمَلَ عَلَيْنَا عَدُوّكَ الشّيْطَانُ فَاسْتَنْقِذْنَا مِنْهُ. اللّهُمّ اشْحَنْهُ بِعِبَادَتِنَا إِيّاكَ، وَ زَيّنْ أَوْقَاتَهُ بِطَاعَتِنَا لَكَ، وَ أَعِنّا فِي نَهَارِهِ عَلَى صِيَامِهِ، وَ فِي لَيْلِهِ عَلَى الصّلَاةِ وَ التّضَرّعِ إِلَيْكَ، وَ الْخُشُوعِ لَكَ، وَ الذّلّةِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ حَتّى لَا يَشْهَدَ نَهَارُهُ عَلَيْنَا بِغَفْلَةٍ، وَ لَا لَيْلُهُ بِتَفْرِيطٍ. اللّهُمّ وَ اجْعَلْنَا فِي سَائِرِ الشّهُورِ وَ الْأَيّامِ كَذَلِكَ مَا عَمّرْتَنَا، وَ اجْعَلْنَا مِنْ عِبَادِكَ الصّالِحِينَ الّذِينَ يَرِثُونَ الْفِرْدَوْسَ هُمْ فِيهَا خَالِدُونَ، وَ الّذِينَ يُؤْتُونَ مَا آتَوْا وَ قُلُوبُهُمْ وَجِلَةٌ، أَنّهُمْ إِلَى رَبّهِمْ رَاجِعُونَ، وَ مِنَ الّذِينَ يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ وَ هُمْ لَهَا سَابِقُونَ. اللّهُمّ صَلّ عَلَى مُحَمّدٍ وَ آلِهِ، فِي كُلّ وَقْتٍ وَ كُلّ أَوَانٍ وَ عَلَى كُلّ حَالٍ عَدَدَ مَا صَلّيْتَ عَلَى مَنْ صَلّيْتَ عَلَيْهِ، وَ أَضْعَافَ ذَلِكَ كُلّهِ بِالْأَضْعَافِ الّتِي لَا يُحْصِيهَا غَيْرُكَ، إِنّكَ فَعّالٌ لِمَا تُرِيدُ.
Praise belongs to God who guided us to His praise
and placed us among the people of praise,
that we might be among the thankful for His beneficence
and that He might recompense us for that
with the recompense of the good-doers!
And praise belongs to God who
showed favour to us through His religion,
singled us out for His creed,
and directed us onto the roads of His beneficence,
in order that through His kindness we might travel upon them
to His good pleasure,
a praise which He will accept from us
and through which He will be pleased with us!
And praise belongs to God who appointed among those roads His month,
the month of Ramadan,
the month of fasting,
the month of submission,
the month of purity,
the month of putting to test,
the month of standing in prayer,
in which the Qur'an was sent down as guidance to the people,
and as clear signs of the Guidance and the Separator!175
He clarified its excellence over other months
by the many sacred things and well-known excellencies
which He placed therein,
for He made unlawful in it what He declared lawful in others
to magnify it,
He prohibited foods and drinks in it
to honour it,
and He appointed for it a clear time which He
(majestic and mighty is He)
allows not to be set forward
and accepts not to be placed behind.
Then He made one of its nights surpass the nights
of a thousand months
and named it the Night of Decree;
in it the angels and the Spirit descend
by the leave of their Lord upon every command,
a peace176 constant in blessings
until the rising of the dawn
upon whomsoever He will of His servants
according to the decision He has made firm.
O God,
bless Muhammad and his Household,
inspire us
with knowledge of its excellence,
veneration of its inviolability,
and caution against what Thou hast forbidden within it,
and help us to fast in it
by our restraining our limbs
from acts of disobedience toward Thee
and our employing them
in that which pleases Thee,
so that we lend not our ears to idle talk
and hurry not with our eyes to diversion,
we stretch not our hands toward the forbidden
and stride not with our feet toward the prohibited,
our bellies hold only what Thou hast made lawful
and our tongues speak only what Thou
hast exemplified,
we undertake nothing but what brings close to
Thy reward
and pursue nothing but what protects from
Thy punishment!
Then rid all of that from the false show of the false showers
and the fame seeking of the fame seekers,
lest we associate therein anything with Thee
or seek therein any object of desire but Thee!
O God,
bless Muhammad and his Household,
in it make us attend
to the appointed moments of the five prayers within
the bounds Thou hast set,
the obligations Thou hast decreed,
the duties Thou hast assigned,
and the times Thou hast specified;
and in the prayers make us alight in the station of
the keepers of their stations,
the guardians of their pillars,
their performers in their times,
as Thy servant and Thy messenger set down in his Sunna
(Thy blessings be upon him and his Household)
in their bowings, their prostrations, and all their
excellent acts,
with the most complete and ample ritual purity
and the most evident and intense humility!
Give us success in this month to
tighten our bonds of kin with devotion and gifts,
attend to our neighbours with bestowal and giving,
rid our possessions from claims,
purify them through paying the alms,
go back to him who has gone far from us,
treat justly him who has wronged us,
make peace with him who shows enmity toward us
(except him who is regarded as an enemy
in Thee and for Thee,
for he is the enemy whom we will not befriend,
the party whom we will not hold dear),
and seek nearness to Thee through blameless works
which will purify us from sins
and preserve us from renewing faults,
so that none of Thy angels will bring for Thee
the kinds of obedience and sorts of
nearness-seeking
unless they be less than what we bring!177
O God,
I ask Thee by the right of this month
and by the right of him who worships Thee within it
from its beginning to the time of its passing,
whether angel Thou hast brought nigh to Thee,
prophet Thou hast sent,
or righteous servant Thou hast singled out,
that Thou bless Muhammad and his Household,
make us worthy of the generosity Thou hast promised
Thy friends,
make incumbent for us
what Thou hast made incumbent
for those who go to great lengths in obeying Thee,
and place us in the ranks of those
who deserve through Thy mercy the highest elevation!
O God,
bless Muhammad and his Household,
turn us aside from
deviation in professing Thy Unity,
falling short in magnifying Thee,
in Thy religion,
blindness toward Thy path,
heedlessness of Thy inviolability,
and being deceived by Thy enemy, the accursed Satan!
O God,
bless Muhammad and his Household,
and when in every night of this month's nights
Thou hast necks
which Thy pardon will release
and Thy forgiveness disregard,
place our necks among those necks
and place us among the best folk and companions
of this our month!
O God,
bless Muhammad and his Household,
efface our sins
along with the effacing of its crescent moon,
and make us pass forth from the ill effects of our acts
with the passing of its days,
until it leaves us behind,
while within it Thou hast purified us of offenses
and rid us of evil deeds!
O God,
bless Muhammad and his Household,
and should we go off to one side in this month,
set us aright;
should we swerve,
point us straight;
and should Thy enemy Satan enwrap us,
rescue us from him!
O God,
fill this month with our worship of Thee,
adorn its times with our obedience toward Thee,
help us during its daytime with its fast,
and in its night with prayer and pleading toward Thee,
humility toward Thee,
and lowliness before Thee,
so that its daytime may not bear witness
against our heedlessness,
nor its night against our neglect!
O God,
make us like this in the other months and days
as long as Thou givest us life,
and place us among Thy righteous servants,
those who shall inherit Paradise,
therein dwelling forever,178
those who give what they give,
while their hearts quake,
that they are returning to their Lord,179
those who vie in good works,
outracing to them!180
O God,
bless Muhammad and his Household
in every time, in all moments, and in every state,
to the number that Thou hast blessed whomsoever
Thou hast blessed
and to multiples of all that, through multiples
which none can count but Thee!
Surely Thou art Accomplisher of what Thou desirest.