
His Supplication in the Morning and Evening
(Supplication - 6)

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
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Praise belongs to
God, who
created night and
day through
His strength,
set them
apart through
His power, and
appointed for
each a
determined
limit and
a drawn-out period.
He makes each of the two enter into its
companion, and
makes its companion enter into
it, as an
ordainment from Him for His
servants in
that through which He feeds
them and
with which He makes them grow.
He created for them the
night, that
they might rest in it from
tiring
movements and
wearisome
exertions and
He made it a garment for
them that
they might be
clothed in
its ease and its
sleep, that
it might be for them refreshment and
strength, that
they might reach therein pleasure and passion.
He created for them the daytime, giving
sight, that
they might seek within it of His bounty, find
the means to His
provision, and
roam freely in His
earth, searching
for that through
which to
attain the immediate in their life in this
world and
to achieve the deferred in their life to come. |
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Through all of this He sets right their
situation, tries
their records, and
watches their state
in the
times for obeying
Him, the way stations of His
obligations, and
the places of His
ordinances, that
He may repay those who do evil with what they have
done and
repay those who do good with goodness.
O
God,
to
Thee belongs
praise for
the sky Thou hast split into dawn for us, giving
us to enjoy thereby the brightness of
daytime, showing
us sought-after
nourishments, and
protecting us from the striking of blights.
In the morning we and all things, every one, rise for
Thee, the
heaven and the
earth and
what Thou hast scattered in
each, the
still and the
moving, the
resident and the
journeying, what
towers up in the air and what hides under the ground.
We rise in the morning in Thy
grasp:
Thy
kingdom and authority contain
us and
Thy will embraces
us. We move
about by Thy
command and
turn this way and that through Thy governing.
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We own
nothing of the
affair except
what Thou hast
decreed and
nothing of the
good except
what Thou hast given.
This is a
fresh, new
day, over
us a ready
witness.
If
we do
good, it
will take leave from us with
praise, and
if we do
evil, it
will part from us in blame.
O
God,
bless
Muhammad and his
Household, provide
us with the day's good
companionship and
preserve us against parting from it
badly by
doing a
misdeed or
committing a sin, whether small or great!
Make our
good deeds within it
plentiful empty
us therein of evil
deeds, and
fill what lies between its two sides for
us with
praise and
thanksgiving, wages
and
stores, bounty
and beneficence!
O
God,
ease
our burden on the Noble Writers, fill
our pages for
us with
our good
deeds, and
degrade us not before
them with
our evil works! |
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O
God,
appoint
for us in each of the day's
hours a
share from Thy
servants, a
portion of giving thanks to
Thee, and
a truthful witness among Thy angels!
O
God,
bless
Muhammad and his
Household and
safeguard us from before us and behind
us, from
our right hands and our left
hands and
from all our directions, a
safeguarding that will preserve from disobeying
Thee, guide
to obeying
Thee, and
be employed for Thy love!
O
God,
bless
Muhammad and his
Household and
give us success in this day of
ours, this
night of
ours, and
in all our
days, to
employ the
good, stay
away from the
evil, give
thanks for favors, follow
the Sunna's
norms, avoid
innovations, enjoin
good behavior, forbid
the
disapproved, defend
Islam, diminish
falsehood and abase
it, help
the truth and exalt
it, guide
the
misguided, assist
the
weak,
and reach out to the troubled!
O
God,
bless
Muhammad and his
Household and
make
this the
most fortunate day we have
known, the
most excellent companion we have
accompanied, and
the best time in which we have lingered! |
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Place us
among the
most satisfied of all Thy
creatures whom
night and day have passed
by, the
most thankful of
them for
the favors Thou hast
done, the
firmest of
them in
the laws Thou hast set down in the Shari'a, and
the most unyielding of
them toward
the prohibited
acts against
which Thou hast cautioned!
O
God,
I call
Thee to
witness
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and Thou art sufficient witness
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and I
call Thy heaven and Thy earth to
witness and
Thy angels and Thy other creatures who inhabit
them in
this my
day, this
my
hour,
this
my
night, and
this my resting
place,
that
I bear
witness that
Thou art
God,
other
than whom there is no
god,
Upholding
justice,
Equitable
in judgment,
Clement
to the servants,
Master
of the kingdom,
Compassionate
to the creatures, and
that Muhammad is Thy servant and Thy
messenger, Thy
chosen from among Thy
creatures. Thou
didst charge him with Thy
message and
he delivered
it; Thou
didst command him to counsel his
community and
he counseled it. |
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O
God,
so
bless Muhammad and his
Household more
than Thou hast blessed any of Thy
creatures! Give
him for our sake the best Thou hast given any of Thy
servants, and
repay him on our behalf better and more
generously than
Thou hast repaid any of Thy
prophets on
behalf of his community!
Thou art All-kind with
immensity,
the
Forgiver of the
great,
and
Thou art more
merciful
than
every possessor of
mercy!
So
bless Muhammad and his
Household, the
good, the pure, the chosen, the most distinguished! |
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