- Ya muqallib al-qulub, thabbit qalbi 'ala dinik

- Ya muqallib al-qulub, thabbit 'ala'l-haqq

- Ya muqallib al-qulub, thabbit qalbi 'ala ta'atik

- Ya musarrif al-qulub, thabbit qalbi 'ala ta'atik

- Allahuma Ya Musabbib al-Asbab, Ya Mufattih  al-Abwaab, Ya Muqallib al-qulubi wal-absaar, Ya Dalil al-mutahayyirin, Ya Ghiyath al-mustaghathin, Ya Hayyu, Ya Qayyum, Ya Dhul-Jalali wa-l-Ikram! Wa ufawwidu amri il-Allah, inn-Allaha basirun bil-'ibad

- Ya muqallib al-qulub wa 'l-ahwalhawwil halina ila ahsan 'l-hal

"O you,transformer of hearts and spiritual statesmake our states the loveliest of states."

- Allahumma, ya muqallib al-qulub wa’l-absar, thabbit qalbi 'ala dinik.

O Allah, O Controller of the hearts and eyes, let my heart hold fast onto your religion.

This also reminds us of the phrase in the Ratib of imam al-Haddad:

Ya Dha'l-Jalali wa'l-Ikram amitna 'ala dini'l-islam

(Tha Ha: 25-28 )

So this blog will be left quiet for the next 2 weeks. I am leaving the house soon to see my grandparents before I go. The flight is at 4pm so if you need anything before that, my phone would still be working. I would be uncontactable while I'm there (no autoroaming) and so, whatever you need to say, just say it now or forever (2 weeks) keep your silence. Heh.

On a serious note however, do pray for the safety of my team and our health and everything else. It is the month of Rajab, I wanted to post something about it but i hope someone else would do so for the benefit of the rest! Bottomline is: This is Allah's month. (Every month is His la, but this one a bit more special). Istighfar a lot and seek forgiveness. Thats obligatory every other time but make it even more this month. Make dua a lot.
Should I not come back, do know that you guys are close to my heart. If I do leave this world, dua that I meet a good ending (husnul khotimah) and that Allah forgives my sins & purify my heart and that I meet Him in a clean, pure state. Should I come back insyaAllah, i see this 2 weeks as a weaning off from attachments. No telephone, no internet, no family or loved ones, nothing that I am attached too. Withdrawal therapy from this dunya hehe, may I succeed! Amin!

Till we meet again (or not), I Love You. :) May Allah bless all of you.

(I fell in love with this quote when I read it.)

I asked for strength

And Allah gave me difficulties

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I asked for wisdom

And Allah gave me problems to solve

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I asked for prosperity

And Allah gave me muscles and a brain to work

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I asked for courage

And Allah gave me danger to overcome

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I asked for patience

And God placed me in situations where I was forced to wait

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 I asked for love

And Allah gave me troubled people to help

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I asked for favors

And Allah gave me opportunities

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I received nothing I wanted

I received everything I wanted

My prayer has been answered.

What did you ask for?  What did you get?

Allahumma salli 'ala, Sayyidina, Muhammadin an-Nabiyyi al-ummiyyi, Wa 'ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim. (O Allah, send your peace and blessings upon our Master Muhammad, the Unlettered Prophet, and upon his family and companions.) O My Lord, My sins are like The highest mountain; My good deeds Are very few They’re like a small pebble. I turn to You My heart full of shame, My eyes full of tears. Bestow Your Forgiveness and Mercy Upon me. Ya Allah, Send your peace and blessings On the Final Prophet, And his family, And companions, And those who follow him.

]]> http://satmareanca.wordpress.com/?p=372 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:06:27 +0000 satmareanca http://satmareanca.wordpress.com/?p=372 Nu ştiu voi ce faceţi în week-end, dar eu una citesc. Citesc Vânătorii de zmeie. Începutul e promiţător. Văzusem ecranizarea cărţii, care m-a lăsat mută. Melodia din film e dureros de frumoasă. Enjoy!

Voi ce citiţi & ascultaţi în week-end?

I reach the basement and as I set foot on the second last stair it creaks, a sound that resounds in the quiet darkness of the night. I freeze in my tracks.
Inside the prayer room, men and women are already in prayer. I recall that this is the time of the night when Allah SWT comes down to the lower heavens and asks if anyone out there needs forgiveness……. I know He (SWT)  is looking for me and I am for Him (SWT). I am keenly aware that I for one need to be answering that call.

As I go into ruku for my first set of rakaats, my sleep has vanished, my brain is in focus, my heart is in sync and I am supplicating within the realm of the text of the prayer. The indirect light from the stairway lights the entrance of the room, but I see that most supplicants like me prefer to be in the shadows when they invoke their Lord enveloped with a feeling that they are the only one in the room, calling to Him.

Far away somewhere, it feels like from the recesses of the woods comes the call for morning prayer, sweet, eternally hopeful, and unchanged in 1400 years. It gives me a feeling of happiness that I am part of this ongoing flow of believers who came, listened to the call of prayer, answered it and eventually passed away leaving nothing but the marks of their righteous acts for the generations that follow them.

Fajr prayer en jamaat energizes me, the long surah which now I can partially understand rivets me, and humbles me…………and finally we come to the part that I love, the adkaars for the morning, as the early morning light gently and gradually seeps into the room through the skylight, I repeat what Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) repeated sitting on his Musallah and joy fills me at the very thought.
As the adkaars proceed and I am at the last hundred ……I bend my head down and nod off, almost falling over, I realize, that somewhere along the line my focus became fuzzy and either Shaitaan, or my lower Nafs came in to take me on a ride away from my supplications.

Having been sensitized to this fact, I now know that I can be perfectly alert even with less than expected sleep, but on occasions like this when my focus waivers, I feel I can be taken on a journey on a wild horse (My Nafs) who if not consciously and vigilantly kept under control, can take to a wild gallop across dangerous territory, returning from which is tumultuous and arduous.

The sun is now flowing in through the skylights and we stand up for the Ishraaq prayer one by one, and after the Sheikh leaves, we too melt away to our rooms to catch up on a refreshing sleep before the morning session begins.

(Impressions from the retreat on Tazkiyah tun Nafs 08  with Sheikh Mokhtar Magroubi)

How do you keep your focus and concentration after fajr prayer, during your morning adkaars?

" In the silence of quietness we will be pondering, dhikr, dua, supplication,with a playful moment with Allah SWT and it will (Inshallah) change our character"

A retreat in the mountains with Sheikh Mokhtar Magroubi, on the Purification of the Soul

O Allah, forgive Abu Salamah, raise his rank amongst those who are rightly guided, and You be the Caretaker of his descendants after him.  Forgive him and us O Sustainer of the universe, make his grave spacious for him and grant him light in it.

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Note: Whenever someone supplicates this for another Muslim, he may take the name of the demised in place of the name of Abu Salamah.

Our Lord! Forgive us our sins, blot out from us our iniquities, and take to Thyself our souls in the company of the righteous.

(Ali Imran :193)

It is one of those long hot timeless afternoons when you look at the verdant surroundings and wonder what the gardens of jannah will be like? You feel the oppressive heat and pray that you never have to ever be close to the Heat of Hell.
The lethargy of the brain and the exhaustion of emotions allow me to think of the Swat weekend as a movie in slow motion and appreciate and relive those moments of love.

It is true that all one needs is a little bit of love. But the most ambitious want is the desire for the Love of Allah (SWT). He gives out His (SWT) love in many different ways and sometimes through many different people, and almost never from the standard sources that you would most expect it from.

It is when I compartmentalize where, how and what kind of love should come from whom, where and how that disappointments occur. My mother would call these “expectations of affection” She strongly discouraged having expectations from others to return your love.

Her concept of having no expectations from your loved ones was quite foreign to me. In all the education I had received (mostly western thought) there is this give and take of affection, need and want and measured reciprocation.
So it had always perplexed me as how does one give affection in a particular relationship without expecting it back? What I did not know was that she was teaching me the very essence of Islam, which is giving “Fi SabeelAllah” giving for the sake of Allah without asking for reciprocation from the individual to whom it is given.

I realize now that giving affection with an expectation of receiving it back is like giving a gift in the hope of getting it returned to you perhaps even manifold.
Generosity of material goods is quite easy except for the exceptionally stingy. It is when one gives of ones time, ones love and affection without fear of hurt or reciprocation that one unveils the inside of ones heart and makes it transparent to the recipient.
This act of giving of love is usually followed by fear, as the giver and the thoughtless receiver may consider an unveiled transparent heart, which hides nothing, vulnerable to the strike of hurt.

In the give and take of love in contemporary times, what has almost never been placed in the equation is the power of Allah in this exchange.

After studying some of Imam Ghazali’s work on Love of Allah and The Purification of the Heart by Sheikh Magroubi, I understand that if one gives of ones love fi sabeelallah than the love one receives back is from Allah which may be now in this world via his creation, or later through Him (SWT) directly.

When I accept that Allah SWT is in the equation, being transparent with my love becomes easy and without strings attached.

When someone is mean, I must look at my actions for any source of disobedience of Allah for it may be the reason the landscape around me has changed.

The best treatment when things do not go our way in the reciprocation of emotion or otherwise despite an honest effort on our part is Istighfaar.
In reviewing our actions of the day or the week we may obviously find our specific disobedience to Allah SWT or we may not.

The Prophet (PBUH) who was unsullied by such base behavior would do Istighfaar more than seventy times a day. When asked why some one of his purity of stature would need to do Istighfaar he said and I paraphrase…….Do I not want to enter in Jannah to be with my Lord?

A Pearl from RasullAllah (PBUH):
اللَّهُمَّ إنَّكَ تَسمَعُ كَلامِي، و تَرَى مَكَانِي، و تَعْلَمُ سِرِّي و عَلانِيَتي، و لا يَخفَى عَلَيكَ شَيءٌ مِن أَمرِي، و أَنَا البَائِسُ الفَقِير، ﺍﻟﻤُﺴﺘَﻐِﻴﺚُ المُسْتَجِيرُ، والوَجِلُ المُشفِقُ المُقِرُ المُعتََرِفُ إِلَيكَ بِذَنبِهِ، أسأَلُكَ مَسأَلَةَ المِسكِين، وأَبْتَهِلُ إلَيكَ اِبْتِهَالِ المُذْنِبِ الذَلِيل، و أَدْعُوكَ دُعآءَ الخَائِفُ الضَرِيرُ، دُعآءَ مَنْ خَضَعَتْ لَكَ رَقَبَتُهُ، و فَاضَتْ لَكَ عَبْرَتُهُ، و ذَلَّ لَكَ جِسْمُهُ، و رَغَمَ لَكَ أَنْفُهُ. اللَّهُمَّ لا تَجْعَلنِي بِدُعَائِكَ شَقِياً، و كُنْ بِيَ رَؤُوفَاً، يَا خَيرَ المَسْؤُولِينَ، و خَيرَ المُعْطِينَ.

“Allaahumma innaka tasma‘u kalaamee, wa taraa makaanee, wa ta‘lamu sirree wa ‘alaaniyatee, wa laa yakhfaa ‘alayka shay’un min ’amree, wa ’anal-baa’isu al-faqeer, wal-mustaagheethu al-mustajeer, wal-wajilu al-mushfiqu al-muqiru al-mu‘tarifu ilayka bi-dhambih. As’aluka mas’alata al-miskeen, wa’abtahilu ilayka ibtihaal al-mudhnibi idh-dhaleel, wa ad‘ooka du‘aa’ al-khaa’ifu ad-dareer, du‘aa’a man khada‘at laka raqabatuhu, wa dhalla laka jismuhu, wa raghama laka anfuh. Allaahumma laa taj‘alnee bidu‘aa’ika shaqeeyaa, wa kun beeya ra’oofaa, ya khairal-mas’ooleen, wa khairal-mu‘teen.”

“Ô Allaah, You hear my words, and You see my place. You know my secret and manifest. Nothing of me is hidden from You. I am the miserable, poor one appealing for protection. I am the frightened, pitiful one acknowledging and confessing to You his sins.

I beg You the begging of a needy one and I implore you the imploring of a humiliated sinful one. And I pray to you the prayer of the ailing fearful one; a prayer of one whose neck has bowed to You, whose tears of pain have flooded his eyes, whose body has in servitude humbled itself to you and whose pride has been lowered to the ground for you.

Ô Allaah, let not my share in Your prayer be misery, and be compassionate to me, Ô Most-Responsive of those who are asked, and Ô Most-Giving of those who give.”

Personally when the fear of being hurt by a power other than Allah arises in my heart I remind myself of this supplication:

اللّهُـمَّ لا مانِعَ لِما أَعْطَـيْت، وَلا مُعْطِـيَ لِما مَنَـعْت، وَلا يَنْفَـعُ ذا الجَـدِّ مِنْـكَ الجَـد .
“Allaahumma laa maani‘a limaa a‘tayt, wa laa mu‘tiya limaa mana‘t. Wa laa yanfa‘u dhal-jaddi minkal-jadd.”

“Ô Allaah, none can prevent what You have willed to bestow. And none can bestow what You have willed to prevent. And no wealth or majesty can benefit anyone, as from You is all wealth and majesty.”

Going back to Love by the Grace of Allah:
We are at a small college up north where Tariq spent barely a year, the friendships forged in that time have transferred to us as his family, the love of his friends is now showered upon us. I continuously thank Allah SWT that He placed in the hearts of these young people, Tariqs friends, such compassion, love and transparency, so as to envelope us in the clarity of their affection.

It is evening and we are at the coffee shop and meet G who was Tariq's colleague in the school paper, She tells me that it is “Tariq’s doing” that she is going to Morocco to learn Arabic. I look upon this beautiful girl, her clear blue eyes swimming in tears, how Allah SWT has blessed Shireen, Paul and me with her love and compassion.

We start to walk towards the Last Collection and there is E , Tariq’s co host on the radio. He has grown even taller, his face serious and thoughtful, as he speaks of Tariq, another transparent heart reaching out to us with love and affection.

Outside it is raining, thundering and dark though the evening is young. We walk into the auditorium, it looks different from the last time I sat here with Tariq listening to the Dean of students, he relaxed in body, alert in mind drinking in what she was saying and totally immersed in the moment. The day bright and sunshiny, unlike today.

We are seated in the front row; the seats are all filled with graduating students and their loved ones. As Ben begins his talk, walking the path with Tariq by his side, my mind wanders like a lost child between Paul silently sobbing on my right and Shireen dabbing her eyes carefully restrained in her display of emotion on my left.

Ben………..opening a window of Tariq’s life at Swarthmore, sharing him with us, in so many ways. While I am listening to Ben, latching on to the new memories of Tariq, wanting to walk the paths of Swarthmore, hearing Tariq’s laugh as he cracks up on something Ben says, I am once again thrown into the role of the mediator. The role I have played all my life where I have to shelve my own concerns and feelings because others so close to me are in distress……

I am deeply grateful to Allah SWT for Ben, G and all of Tariq’ friends, colleagues and even younger students who came after the presentation to hug me, share some of Tariq’s memories, and tell us how glad and appreciative they were of our presence here.

………….And so the evening passed, a rite of passage for Tariq’s friends to leave Swat and take as a small part of the memory of Swat, something of Tariq, perhaps his characteristic laugh, his humor or his music with them, filtered into the transparency of their hearts like sunshine to bring joy at unexpected moments far away somewhere where life takes them.

…………And after Paul and Shireen left for home that night of the Last Collection, I stayed back to witness the passage of Tariq’s class into adulthood.

Starting with fireworks that night on the Parrish Beach as Tariq affectionately called the lawn in front of Parrish Hall, and ending with a beautiful sparkling morning of grace, beauty and idealism at the Scott Amphitheatre.

As each graduate walked into their own private future, each was blessed by Allah SWT to reach into their core for the hidden gem of purity called ‘fitra’ given by Him, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

The heart of a child innocent of the politics of the times, beats with hope, faith and belief that one day he or she can be like the other children of the world.

While the news is full of the bombings and bulldozing of homes and orchards, ushering in death and disaster in GAZA…....the children do not let go of their hope that perhaps one day they will be able to enjoy a life of safety, reliability, predictability and protection from the horrors of Israeli air strikes, like everyone elsewhere in the world, living in their homes.

Her story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX8QvkYIBi4

His story: (English translation after opening scene)

Palestinian Children at Beit Jala

Dua: May Allah Subhana waataala give us strength and emaan to protect our children and guide our path so that we are neither opressed nor the opressor.

For more information contact the children’s medical rehabilitation unit of MECA or the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance at: www.mecaforpeace.org

Yesterday was the La Fleurette Release Party.  They had about eight Russian River beers on tap, including (to the best of my memory's ability):

• La Fleurette
• Supplication
• Temptation
• Damnation
• Pliny the Elder
• Not sure after that...maybe Blind Pig? 

I was working from Palo Alto yesterday, and couldn't get there until about 7:00pm, even though it started at 6:00pm.  Perhaps Vinnie was there earlier, perhaps not, in either case, I didn't spot him in the massive crowd when I got there.  However, I did spot Brian Hunt from Moonlight wheeling some kegs in and out - I felt bad for the guy, it was a hell of a time to be navigating a hand truck through there.  

I started with the Fleurette, moved on to a Supplication, and tried to order a Pliny the Elder but they had run out by then so Matt picked me up Deschutes Hop Henge instead.  

I really enjoyed the Fleurette again, and drinking it with lots of other people who were excited about it.  One of my roommates initially said he couldn't taste the flowers in it, but after some suggestions (Smell it.  Then take a sip and hold it in your mouth a little bit, don't swallow it right away.  Breath in through your mouth a little, while you have your sip in there.), he got it right away.  I thought it was very floral, just like the first time I had it (click link for review), but that once you've had about half a glass you get habituated to it and it helps to take a break or eat something, to clear away the taste of prior sips, so that you get the full impact of it.  That said, though I think the roses, violets, and pepper all come through in the final taste, you may have to be an expert taster to pick up the elderberries.  What does an elderberry even taste like?  I'm not sure I'd know one if it walked up and bit me in the ankle.  

The major insight of the night for me was that Supplication is a beer I fall in love with over and over again.  Every time I drink it, I have two thoughts:

• (1) "Damn, this is a great beer, I can't believe I haven't had it in weeks." And then..
• (2) "Wow, I never notice about it before that....[fill in the blank]."

It's a beer you can drink several times and rediscover something new about it every time.  This time it was the oakiness. Before, I've always been very focused on the sourness, or the fruited flavor, or the Brett.  This time, the oak seemed very prominent in the taste, and each time I sipped it, it made me a little giddy with happiness.  I think I may be becoming an oak fiend.  

The Hop Henge was an interesting experience.  I had tasted it once before and thought it was a perfectly tasty Imperial IPA.  But taking a sip of it right after the Supplication, it tasted bizarre.  I think it was just the contrast with the extra sour and oaky Supplication, but it tasted soapy.  Not in a "mmm this Bath and Body Works Botanical Enchantment soap smells like a bouquet of dew drenched herbs, maybe basil, and I think cilantro too" kind of way.  No, it was soapy in a "man, I knew I shouldn't have used that kind of language around my mother because now my mouth is painfully, and Zestfully clean" kind of way.  I knew this was about the contrast between the beers, and not the beer itself, so I returned to Rosamunde for a second sausage to give my palate a break.  Though in retrospect, I got the chicken and smoked cherries sausage so it was really only half different from the cherry soured supplication.  Anyway, when I got back, 20 minutes and a sausage later, my beer tasted much better.  I still missed the Pliny, I'm sorry Deschutes, I have to say it, but I haven't met an Imperial IPA that compares to Pliny.  

Wrapping up the night, as my roommate Andre and I were walking home and discussing how I had 2 sausages and 3 beers and he had eaten 1 sausage and drunk 4 beers, it reminded me of the Mickey's-Taco Bell Challenge that my supervisor at work once explained to me.  You have $20, you have to spend it all, and you can only spend it on Taco Bell and Mickey's.  Then you have to consume whatever you bought.  I'm pretty sure in its original context, this was some sort of hazing ritual, and I'm also pretty sure that completing the Mickey's challenge, were I to feel motivated to try, which I definitely don't, would kill me.  I just like the concept of the $20 that can be spent on only two alternatives -- it reminds me of utility curves from economics class, that seemed really abstract at the time, but now we have a prime example of them.  You only have finite amount of space in your stomach, you can fill it with any combination of beer and sausages, what combination do you choose to maximize your satisfaction?  The answer: who knows - but we did go home and watch Thank You For Smoking, which was definitely a satisfying end to a very fun night. 

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AL-WIRDUL `AAM
THE GENERAL LITANY

1. Recite Once :

الرَّجِيْمِ الشَّيْطَانِ مِنَ بِاللهِ أَعُوْذُ

A-`ŪDHU BILLĀHI MINASH SHAYTĀ-NIR RAJĪM

I seek refuge in Allah from Shaytan, the rejected one.

2. Recite Three Times :

الرَّحِيْمِ الرَّحْمنِ اللهِ بِسْمِ

BIS-MIL-LĀHIR RAHMĀ-NIR RAHĪM

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

3. Recite Once :

اللهِ عِنْدَ تَجِدُوْهُ خَيْرٍ مِّنْ لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ تُقَدِّمُوْا مَا وَ
أَجْرًا أَعْظَمَ وَ خَيْرًا هُوَ
اللهَ اسْتَغْفِرُوا وَ
رَّحِيْمٌ غَفُوْرٌ اللهَ إِنَّ

WA MĀ TUQAD-DIMŪ LI-ANFUSIKUM MIN KHAYRIN TAJIDŪHU `INDAL-LĀHI HUWA KHAYRAN WA A`A-ZAMA AJRĀ WAS-TAGH-FIRUL- LĀH INNAL-LĀHA GHAFŪRUR- RAHĪM

"And whatever good you send forth for yourselves, you shall find it with Allah, better and greater in reward. And seek the forgiveness of Allah, for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." [ Surah Al-Muzzammil, 73:20 ]

4. Recite Ninety-Nine Times :

اللهَ أَسْتَغْفِرُ

AS-TAGH-FIRUL- LĀH

I seek the forgiveness of Allah.

5. Recite Once :

الْقَيُّوْمَ الْحَيَّ هُوَ إِلاَّ إِلَهَ لآ الَّذِيْ الْعَظِيْمَ اللهَ أَسْتَغْفِرُ
. إِلَيْهِ وأَتُوْبُ

AS-TAGH-FIRUL- LĀHAL `AZĪMAL- LA-DHĪ LA ILĀHA ILLĀ HUWAL- HAYYAL- QAY-YŪMA WA ATŪBU ILAYH

I seek the forgiveness of Allah, the Most Great, other than whom there is no god, the Living, the Self-subsisting Supporter of all, and I turn to Him in Repentance.

6. Recite Once :

النَّبِيِّ عَلَى يُصَلُّوْنَ مَلاَئِكَتَهُ وَ اللهَ إِنَّ
. تَسْلِيْمًا سَلِّمُوْا وَ عَلَيْهِ صَلُّوْا آمَنُوْا الَّذِيْنَ أَيُّهَا يَا

IN-NALLĀHA WA MALĀ-IKATAHU YUSALLŪNA `ALANNABIY, YĀ AY-YUHAL- LADHĪNA ĀMANŪ ŞALLŪ `ALAYHI WA SALLIMŪ TASLĪMĀ

"Verily Allah and His Angels send blessings on the Prophet: O you who believe, send blessings on him and salute him with all respect." [ Surah Al-Ahzab, 33:56 ]

7. Recite Ninety-Nine Times :

النَّبِيِّ رَسُوْلِكَ وَ عَبْدِكَ مُحَمَّدٍ سَيِّدِنَا عَلَى صَلِّ اَللهُمَّ
. سَلِّمْ وَ صَحْبِهِ وَ آلِهِ عَلَى وَ الأُمِّيِّ

ALLĀHUMMA ŞALLI `ALĀ SAYYIDINĀ MUHAMMADIN `ABDIKA WA RASŪLIKAN- NABI- YIL- UMMIY,
WA `ALĀ ĀLIHI WA SAHBIHI WA SALLIM

O Allah, bless our master Muhammad, Your Servant and Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, and his family and Companions, and grant them peace.

8. Recite Once :

النَّبِيِّ رَسُوْلِكَ وَ عَبْدِكَ مُحَمَّدٍ سَيِّدِنَا عَلَى صَلِّ اَللهُمَّ
بِقَدْرِ تَسْلِيْمًا سَلِّمْ وَ صَحْبِهِ وَ آلِهِ عَلَى وَ الأُمِّيِّ
عَظَمَةِ
. حِيْنٍ وَ وَقْتٍِِ آُلِّ فِيْ ذَاتِكَ

ALLĀHUMMA ŞALLI `ALĀ SAYYIDINAA MUHAMMADIN `ABDIKA WA RASŪLIKAN- NABI- YIL- UMMIY,
WA `ALĀ ĀLIHI WA SAHBIHII WA SALLIM TASLĪMAN BIQADRI `AŻAMATI DHĀTIKA FĪ KULLI WAQTIN WA HĪN

O Allah, bless our master Muhammad, Your Servant and Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, and his family and Companions, and grant them peace, as greatly as the greatness of Your Being, at every moment and time.

9. Recite Once :

. الله إِلاَّ إِلَهَ لاَ أَنَّهُ فَاعْلَمْ

FA`LAM ANNAHU LĀ ILĀHA IL-LAL-LĀH

"Know, therefore, that there is no god but Allah." [ Surah Muhammad, 47:19 ]

10. Recite Ninety-Nine Times :

. الله إِلاَّ إِلَهَ لاَ

LĀ ILĀHA IL-LAL-LĀH

There is no god but Allah.

11. Recite Once :

اللهُ صَلَّى اللهِ رَسُوْلُ مُحَمَّدٌ سَيِّدُنَا اللهُ إِلاَّ إِلَهَ لاَ
عَلَيْهِ
. سَلَّمْ وَ صَحْبِهِ وَ آلِهِ عَلَى وَ

LĀ ILĀHA IL-LAL-LĀHU SAYYIDUNĀ MUHAMMAD UR RASŪLUL-LĀH, ŞALLAL-LĀHU `ALAYHI WA `ALĀ ĀLIHI
WA SAHBIHI WA SALLAM

There is no god but Allah, our Master Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, may the blessings of Allah be upon him and his family and his Companions, and may He grant them peace.

12. Recite Three Times : (Suratul Ikhlas)

الرَّحِيْمِ الرَّحْمنِ اللهِ بِسْمِ
أَحَدٌ اللهُ هُوَ قُلْ
الصَّمَدُ اَللهُ
يُوْلَدْ لَمْ وَ يَلِدْ لَمْ
أَحَدٌ آُفُوًا لَّهُ يَكُنْ لَمْ وَ

BISMIL-LĀHIR- RAHMĀ-NIR RAHĪM QUL HUWAL- LĀHU AHAD, ALLĀHUŞ- ŞAMAD, LAM YALID WA LAM YŪLAD, WA LAM YAKUL- LAHŪ KUFUWAN AHAD

"Say: He is Allah, the One; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begets not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him." [ Surah Al-Ikhlas, 112: 1-4 ]

13. Recite Once : (Suratul Fatihah)

الرَّحِيْمِ الرَّحْمنِ اللهِ بِسْمِ
يَوْمِ مالِكِ الرَّحِيْمِ اَلرَّحْمنِ الْعَالَمِيْنَ رَبِّ لِلَّهِ اَلْحَمْدُ
الدِّيْنِ
الْمُسْتَقِيْمَ الصِّرَاطَ اهْدِنَا نَسْتَعِيْنُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ إِيَّاكَ
عَلَيْهِمْ الْمَغْضُوْبِ غَيْرِ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنْعَمْتَ الَّذِيْنَ صِرَاطَ
. آمِيْن . الضَآلِّيْنَ وَلاَ

BISMIL-LĀHIR- RAHMĀ-NIR RAHĪM ALHAMDU LIL-LĀHI RABBIL- `ĀLAMĪN, AR-RAHMĀ-NIRRAHĪM, MĀLIKI YAWMID- DĪN, IY-YĀKA NA`BUDU WA IYYĀKA NASTA`ĪN, IH-DINAŞ- ŞIRĀTAL MUSTAQĪM, ŞIRĀTAL LADHĪNA AN`AMTA `ALAYHIM, GHAYRIL MAGH-DŪBI `ALAYHIM WA LAD-DĀLLĪN. AMEEN.

In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All Praise is for Allah, Lord of the Worlds. Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Master of the Day of Judgement. You (alone) we worship; And You (alone) we ask for help.
Guide us to the Straight Path. The Path of those upon whom You Have bestowed Your Grace, Not (the Path) of those who earn Your anger (wrath), Nor of those who go astray. [ Surah Al-Fatihah, 1:1-7 ]

14. Make Du`ā' for yourself, your parents, your Sheikh, your fellow Brethren on this Path, and all Muslims.

Seeking refuge from four things

On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (May Allah be pleased with him) it is related that the Prophet (Peace be upon him) used to say,

“O Allah, I seek refuge in you from four things: Knowledge which does not benefit, a heart which is not submissive, a soul which has an insatiable (i.e. greedy, never satisfied) appetite, and a supplication which is not heard.”

[Abu Dawood]

Sahife Sajjadia
By Imam Zain-al-Abideen

God,
I ask from Thee the best in Thy knowledge,
so bless Muhammad and his Household
and decree for me the best!

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God,
I ask from Thee the best in Thy knowledge,
so bless Muhammad and his Household
and decree for me the best!

Inspire us with knowledge to chose the best
and make that a means to
being pleased with what Thou hast decreed for us
and submitting to what Thou hast decided!
Banish from us the doubt of misgiving
and confirm us with the certainty of the sincere!

Visit us not with incapacity
to know what Thou hast chosen, lest we
despise Thy measuring out,
dislike the place of Thy good pleasure,
and incline toward that which is
further from good outcome
and nearer to the opposite of well-being!

Make us love what we dislike
in Thy decree
and make easy for us what we find difficult
in Thy decision!

Inspire us to yield
to that which Thou bringest upon us by Thy will,
lest we
love the delay of what Thou hast hastened
and the hastening of what Thou hast delayed,
dislike what Thou lovest,
and choose what Thou dislikest!

Seal us with that which is most praised in outcome
and most generous in issue!
Surely Thou givest generous gain,
bestowest the immense,
dost what Thou wilt,
and Thou art powerful over everything.

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