Salwat for Shaban
O Allah: (please do) send blessings upon Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad—
the tree of Prophethood;
and the trustees of the (Divine) Mission;
and the frequently visited by the angels;
and the core of knowledge;
and the Household of the Divine Revelation.
O Allah: (please do) send blessings upon Muhammad and the Family of Muhammad—
the sailing ships through the abysmal waves.
He who embarks on them will be saved
but he who abandons them will be drowned.
He who precedes them will miss the Right Path
and he who misses them will lose,
but he who adheres to them will win.
O Allah: (please do) send blessings upon Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad—
the impregnable shelter;
and the succorers of the helpless, distressed ones;
and the haven of the fugitives;
and the asylum of those who seek refuge.
O Allah: (please do) send blessings upon Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad
so much blessings that please them
and settle all (our) duties towards Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad
by Your might and power; O the Lord of the worlds.
O Allah: (please do) send blessings upon Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad—
the pure, the pious, the righteous
whose rights have been made incumbent upon us by You
and the obedience to whom has been deemed obligatory upon us by You and whose (divinely commissioned) leadership has been (also) deemed obligatory upon us by You.
O Allah: (please do) send blessings upon Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad;
and fill in my heart with the obedience to You;
and do not disgrace me by acts of disobedience to You;
and grant me the feeling of sympathy towards those whom You have decided to straiten their sustenance
by means of Your favors that You have decided to make expansive for me
and by means of that with which You have covered me out of Your fairness;
and make me live under Your shade.
This is the month of Your Prophet and the Master of Your Messengers.
It is Sha`ban, which You have encompassed with Your mercy and pleasure,
and on which the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him and his Family—used to observe fasting painstakingly and used to spend it with acts of worship
on all of its days and nights
on account of Your honoring and dignifying this month, up to his death.
O Allah: (please do) help us follow the example of him (i.e. the Holy Prophet as regards the honoring of this month)
and help us attain nearness to him.
O Allah: (please do) decide him as my interceder (before You) whose intercession for me is acceptable
and as my clear path toward You;
and make me follow him until I meet You on the Resurrection Day enjoying Your pleasure with me
and Your overlooking my sins
and thus You will confer upon me with Your mercy and pleasure
and allow me to reside in the Eternal Abode and the Place of the Righteous.