Dua-e-Alqamah
O Allah! O Allah! O Allah!
O He who gives answer to the cries of the persecuted !
O He who pulls out the grief-stricken from agony and anguish!
O He who comes to help those who shed tears in helplessness!
O he who brings relief to those who cry for help!
O He who is close by, nearer than my jugular vein!
O He who makes peace between heart and mind;
O He whom people search in the highest and noblest perspectives;
in true and evident distinctions!
O He who is Beneficent and Merciful in His authority!
O He who knows what the furtive eyes betrays and what the secretive hearts conceal!
O He whom do not deceive those who do everything in secret!
O He whom intermingled voices of the countless callers (supplicants) do not stop from giving answer to each and every one!
O He whom wants and needs of the infinite needy do not put in confusion for attending to one and all separately!
O he whom clamorous determined pleading of petitioners do not upset!
O He who reaches and takes hold of everything that tries to escape!
O He who keeps together and brings into harmony people who know and understand!
O He who examines the souls when they present themselves before Him after death!
O he who, each day, has (new) distinct glory!
O Fulfiller of wants and needs!
O He who gives comfort and respite in distress!
O He who liberally satisfies those who solicit His favours!
O He who stands by and follow close upon those who humble and fervently call on Him!
O He who effectively support those who make sincere efforts
O He who is equal to and can do anything instead of another in the matters concerning all things;
and nothing, in the heavens and the earth, can be out of the reach of or is free from His hold.
I beseech Thee in the name of Muhammad, the last Prophet,
and Ali, the commander of the faithful,
in the name of Fatimah, the daughter of Thy Prophet,
and in the name of Hasan and Husayn.
I direct myself towards Thee, through them, in my address,
I make them my means to You,
I seek their intercession for me with You,
I beseech You in the name of Your duty towards them, I adjure You, and I beg You earnestly,
in the name of the status that they enjoy with You,
the value that they enjoy in Your sight,
in the name of the thing by which You have preferred them over all the other beings,
in the name of Thy name Thou revealed to them in trust,
on account of which Thou chose them in preference over everything found in the heavens and the earths,
and through which You have distinguished them
and demonstrated their distinctive precedence over all the other beings so uniquely
that their completeness surpassed the total achievement of all the people put together;
I request Thee to send blessings on Muhammad and on the children of Muhammad;
to relieve me from my distress,
grief, and agony,
to make up for me all my distressing affairs,
to help me settle my debts,
to safeguard me against poverty,
to safeguard me against scarcity,
to make me dispense with begging from the created beings,
to spare me from the distress of what I anticipate to distress me,
the difficulty of what I anticipate to be difficult for me,
the toughness of what I anticipate to be hard for me (to deal with),
the evil of what I anticipate to be evil,
the conspiracy of whom I anticipate to plot conspiracy (against me),
the tyranny of whom I anticipate to treat me tyrannically,
the injustice of whom I anticipate to be unjust to me
the domination of whom I anticipate to dominate me,
the trickery of whom I anticipate to trick me,
and the authority of whom I anticipate to seize me,
and to ward off from me the trickeries of the deceivers
and the cunning of the devious.
O Allah, stand for me against him who intends evil for me,
intrigue against him who intends to conspire against me,
turn away from me his trickeries, cunning,
influence, and evil desires,
and prevent him against me in any way You choose and at any time You choose.
O Allah, (please) preoccupy him against me
by means of poverty that You never cut down,
ordeals that You never recover,
neediness that You never stop,
ailment that You never heal,
humility that You never change into dignity,
and destitution that You never cut down.
O Allah, (please) strike him with humility in the center of his eyes,
interleave poverty to his own house,
place ailment and disease in his body
so that You will preoccupy him with an engrossing, relentless preoccupation,
make him fail to remember me in the same was as he has failed to remember You,
divert from me his hearing, sight,
tongue, hands,legs,
heart,and all of his organs,
place in him sickness in all these (organs),
and do not heal him so that all these (sicknesses) will preoccupy him relentlessly
from me and from mentioning me.
And spare me, O Savior, from all that which cannot be spared by anyone other than You,
for You are verily the Savior; and there is no savior other than You,
You are verily the Reliever, and there is no reliever other than You,
Verily, You are the provider of Succor, and there is no one else to provide Succor save You,
and You are verily the Shelterer, and there is no shelterer other than You.
Disappointed is he whose shelterer is other than You,
whose recourse to anywhere other than You,
whose resort is anywhere other than You,
whose way out is anywhere other than You,
whose haven is anywhere other than You,
and whose savior from any created being is anyone other than You.
Thou are verily my trust, my hope
my resort, my way out,
my haven, and my savior.
With You do I commence
and through You do I seek success.
through Muhammad and the children of Muhammad
I present myself before Thee, try to draw Thy attention and ask for salvation
So, I beseech You, O Allah! O Allah! O Allah!
Yours is all praise and Yours is all thanks.
thou alone listens to complaints,
Thou alone is called upon for help.
So I beseech Thee, O Allah! O Allah! O Allah!
In the name of Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad
to send blessings on Muhammad and on the children of Muhammad,
and to relieve my distress, grief,
and agony in this situation of mine
in the same way as You have relieved the distress, grief, and agony of Your Prophet
and saved him from the horrors of his enemy.
So, (please) relieve me in the same way as You did to him,
dispel my worries in the same way as You did to him,
let me have enough and be contended as Thou gave him sufficiently.
drive away from me the horror of what I anticipate to horrify me,
the encumbrance of what I anticipate to overburden me,
and the distress of what I anticipate to distress me
without making me suffer any encumbrance due to all that.
And make me leave having all my requests granted
and having all my distresses relieved,
including the affairs of this world and the Hereafter.
O Ameerul-Mu’mineen!
O Abaa Abillah!
I invoke Allah to send blessings on you forever and ever
As long as I am alive and the days and nights follow each other
May Allah not make this pledge of physical and spiritual close association with you (both) the last fulfilment,
and may Allah not separate me and you (both) from one another.
O my Allah let me have as meaningful an existence as Muhammad his descendants had,
and let me die as they departed from this world,
take to and carry out completely their creed;
and raise me for the last judgement along with the people dedicated to them,
and do not cut (us) in two (groups), even for the flash of an eyelid, ever,
either in this world or in the life of the hereafter.
O Ameerul Moomineen!
O Abaa Abillah!
I have come to you to visit you,
making you to be my means to Allah your and my Lord,
turning my face to Him in your names,
and seeking your intercession for me with Allah All-exalted to grant me this request of mine;
so, intercede for me,
since you both enjoy with Allah a praiseworthy position,
an admissible status,
a lofty standing, and a means (of nearness to Him).
I will now leave you
expecting my request to be granted,
settled, and made successful by Allah
on account of your intercession for me with Allah in that;
so, do not let me down
and do not make me leave with disappointment and loss;
rather, make me leave with achievement,
prosperity, success, and response (of my prayers)
by having all my requests granted.
And (please) intercede for me with Allah recurrently.
I direct myself to bring myself over to that which Allah wills and commands.
(because) there is no power and no might save Allah.
relegating all my affairs to Allah,
referring all my power to Allah,
depending upon Allah,
and repeating, ‘Allah is only sufficient to me,’
and ‘May Allah respond to him who prays Him.’
Other than Allah
and other than you all, O my masters, I have nothing to put my hope in.
Only that which my Lord wills shall come to pass,
There is no power and no might save in Allah
Unto you (both) I have come with love and affection,
motivated under Divine incentive
May Allah never decide this time of my visit to you both to be the last.
May I now leave, O my master,
O Commander of the faithful
and you O Abaa Abillah,
O my leader,
My greetings to you both are continuous
as continuous night and day.
May my greetings reach you both (all the time)
and my salutation never be screened from reaching you both,
Allah willing.
I also beseech Him in your names to determine and do that,
for He is verily the owner of praise and the owner of glory.
I am now leaving you both, O my masters,
repenting to and praising Allah,and thanking Him
and hoping Him to respond to me;
I neither despair nor lose hope,
and I intend to come back, return, revisit you both,
while I have never desired to leave you or to abandon visiting you;
rather, I shall return and come back, if Allah wills.
There is no power and no might save in Allah.
O my leaders I long for you and love to be in your company
although the people of this world (may) abandon you both or abandon visiting you.
May Allah never make me fail to attain what I have hoped and desired in visiting you both.
Verily, He is All-nigh, All-responding.