Supplication of Maarefat
O Allah, make me recognize You,
because if You do not make me recognize You,
I will not recognize Your Messenger.
O Allah, make me recognize Your Messenger,
because if You do not make me recognize Your Messenger,
I will not recognize Your Argument.
O Allah, make me recognize Your Argument,
because if You do not make me recognize Your Argument,
I will stray off the path to my religion.
O Allah, do not make me die like the death of those who have not recognized Islam
and do not cause my heart to stray off after You have guided me.
O Allah, just as You have guided me to the loyalty of those the obedience to whom You have made incumbent upon me,
that is the loyalty to Your representatives after Your Messenger,
Your peace be upon him and his Household,
and thus I am loyal to Your representatives;
[namely,] the Commander of the Faithful, al-Hasan, al-Husayn,
`Ali, Muhammad, Ja`far,
Musa, `Ali, Muhammad,
`Ali, al-Hasan, and the Argument—the Assumer and well-guided,
Your peace be upon them all,
so also, O Allah, make me steadfast on Your religion,
use me in the obedience to You,
make my heart lenient towards Your representative,
release me from that which You have used as tests for Your creatures,
and make me steadfast on the obedience to Your representative,
whom You have hidden from Your creatures
and he has thus disappeared from [the sights of] Your creatures by Your permission,
waiting for Your command [to reappear],
and You are the most Knower and none can instruct You
of the best time for Your representative to reappear,
and when exactly You allow him to declare his affair
and to disclose his secret.
So, grant me patience to endure that
so that I will not long for hastening that which You have delayed
or delaying that which You would hasten,
I will not disclose that which You have concealed,
I will not investigate that which You have covered,
I will not dispute with You about Your management,
and I will not ask, ‘why’, ‘how’
and ‘what for the Representative is not coming,
after the earth has been filled with injustice.
Instead, I will refer all my affairs to You.
O Allah, I beseech You to allow me to see the Representative,
apparent and prevalent,
although I know for sure that all authority, power,
potency, argument,
volition, might, and strength are Yours [alone].
So, do this to me and to all the believers
so that we will be able to witness Your representative, Your peace be upon him,
while he is evident in claim,
manifest in proof,
guiding from deviation,
and healing from ignorance.
O my Lord, make the looking at him eminent,
make firm his bases,
make us of those whose eyes are delighted by seeing him,
employ us to serve him,
make us die following his creed,
and include us with his group.
O Allah, protect him against the evil of all that which You have created, made,
originated, fashioned, and formed.
Safeguard him from his front and back,
his right and left sides,
and above and beneath him
with Your safeguarding that will never fail to save whomever is safeguarded with it,
and safeguard Your Messenger and Your Messenger’s Successor through safeguarding him,
peace be upon them.
O Allah, extend his lifetime,
increase the period of his life,
help him undertake that which You have entrusted with him and put under his supervision,
and increase Your honor to him.
Verily, he is the guide, the well-guided,
the assumer (of the mission entrusted with him), the rightly guided,
the immaculate, the pious,
the pure, the refined,
the pleased, the satisfied,
the serene, the thankful, and the hard-working.
O Allah, do not deprive us of our strong faith
because of his long-lasting occultation
and disconnection between him and us.
Do not make us forget to mention him [constantly],
to expect him, to believe in him,
to enjoy strong faith in his advent,
to pray You for him, and to invoke Your blessings on him
so that his long-lasting occultation will never make us despair of his advent
and our faith in this will be
just like our faith in the advent of Your Messenger,
Your peace be upon him and his Household,
and [just like our faith in] all that which has been conveyed by him to us through Your Revelation and Divine communication.
O Allah, make our hearts believe in him unshakably
so that You will lead us, at his hands, to the path of true guidance,
the greatest destination,
and the moderate way.
Grant us strength to obey him,
make us firm in supporting him,
and include us with his party, backers,
allies, and those satisfied with his deed.
Do not deprive us of so during our lifetimes
nor at the hour of our death,
but (please) make us die while we carry this faith,
without doubt, breach of our covenant to him,
suspect, or belying him.
O Allah, hasten his Relief,
aid him with victory,
grant his supporters victory,
disappoint those who disappoint him,
doom those who conspire against him and those who contradict him,
make manifest the truth through him,
obliterate injustice through him,
save Your faithful servants from humiliation through him,
refresh the lands through him,
kill the tyrannical chiefs of disbelief through him,
crush the heads of deviation through him,
debase the tyrants and disbelievers through him,
eradicate the hypocrites, the breachers,
and all the dissidents and the atheists
in the east and west of this earth,
on lands, in oceans,
in plains, and in mountains
so that You will not leave of them a single one on earth
and You will keep not even a single trace of them.
Clean Your lands from them,
heal the breasts of Your servants from them,
revive the signs of Your religion that were obliterated,
and rectify Your laws that were altered and Your instructions that were changed,
so that Your religion will be restored, through him and at his hands,
fresh, new, and sound
without any crookedness and without any heresy
so that You will extinguish the fires of the disbelievers through his justice.
He is verily Your servant on whom You have decided for Yourself,
accepted to support Your religion,
chosen on the basis of Your [eternal] knowledge,
preserved against sins,
freed from defects,
apprised of the unseen,
bestowed with Your grace,
purified from filth,
and refined from impurity.
So, O Allah, confer blessings upon him
and upon his forefathers the immaculate Imams
and upon his elite partisans,
make them attain the utmost of their hopes,
and accept this from us to be free
from any doubt, sedition,
ostentation, or showing off,
so that we will not seek through it anyone save You
and we will not aim for anything save Your Face.
O Allah, we complain to You about missing our Prophet,
occultation of our Master,
unbearable vicissitudes of days against us,
befalling of seditious matters,
alliance of our enemies [against us],
the big numbers of our enemies,
and the fewness of us.
O Allah, relieve us from all that
by means of a triumph that You may hasten,
a victory that You may fortify,
and a just leader that You allow to appear.
O God of the Truth, respond to us.
O Allah, we earnestly beseech You
to allow Your Representative to spread Your justice in Your lands
and to kill Your enemies in Your lands,
so that You, O my Lord, will not leave any support [of injustice] but that You demolish it,
any remnant but that You terminate it,
any power but that You enfeeble it,
any probe but that You destroy it,
any sharp sword but that You notch it,
any weapon but that You deactivate it,
any pennon but that You turn it over,
any dominant one but that You kill him,
and any army but that You defeat it.
Throw them, O my Lord, with Your stamping stone,
strike them with Your cutting sword
and Your power that You do not ward off from the offensive people,
and torture Your enemies
and the enemies of Your representative and the enemies of Your Messenger,
Your blessings be upon him and upon his Household,
at the hand of Your representative and the hands of Your faithful servants.
O Allah, suffice Your representative and argument on Your lands
against the terror of his enemy,
deter the conspiracies of those who plot against him,
ward off those who plan against him,
make the disaster of evil to be upon those who intend ill to him,
stop their schemes against him,
make their hearts panic about him,
make their feet convulse,
grasp them gradually and suddenly,
intensify Your torment on them,
disgrace them among Your servants,
curse them in Your lands,
lodge them in the lowest class of Your fire,
encompass them with the most intense of Your punishment,
expose them to fire,
stuff the graves of their dead ones with fire,
and expose them to the heat of Your fire,
for they have ruined the prayers,
followed their lusts,
and misled Your servants.
Therefore, O Allah, revive the Qur'an through Your representative,
make us see his light to be never-ending without any night,
revive the dead hearts through him,
heal the furious breasts through him,
combine the divergent inclinations to the right through him,
and re-establish the broken-down provisions
and the neglected laws through him
so that no item of truth will be undisclosed
and no item of justice unthriven.
And make us, O my Lord, of his supporters,
of the strengtheners of his authority,
of those carrying out his orders,
of those satisfied with his deeds,
of those submissive to his judgments,
and of those who do not need to practice dissimulation before Your creatures any more.
It is You, O my Lord, Who relieve from harms,
respond to the depressed when they supplicate to You,
and save from grave agonies.
So, remove harm from Your representative
and make him a vicegerent on the earth as You have promised him to do.
O Allah, do not include me with the rivals of Muhammad’s Household, peace be upon them,
do not include me with the enemies of Muhammad’s Household, peace be upon them,
and do not include me with those who bear spite and malice against Muhammad’s Household, peace be upon them.
I do seek Your protection against making me so; therefore, protect me against it,
and I take refuge in You against so; therefore, save me against it.
O Allah, send blessings to Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad,
make me of the winners with You through them
in this worldly life and in the Hereafter,
and make me of those brought near to You.
Respond, O Lord of the worlds.