Duas from book THE LIFE OF IMAM AL-HASAN AL-ASKARI Study And AnalysisQunut ,Dua in morning ,Amulet, Dua for relief from Oppressor His Qunut In his prayer, Imam Abu Muhammad (a.s.) recited this du’a, “O You, Whose light covers darkness, O You, by Whose holiness rugged mountain passes are lit, O You, to Whom all the inhabitants of the earth and the heavens submit, O You, to Whom every insolent tyrant surrender with obedience, O You the Aware of hidden consciences, You are Merciful to everything and Aware of everything, forgive those who repent and follow Your path, protect them from the torment of Fire, give them soon Your victory that You have promised them of and You do not fail the promise! Devastate the people of evil and take them to the worst abode in the worst punishment and the ugliest retreat. O Allah, You know the secrets of creatures, and are aware of their consciences. You are in need of nothing except that You carry out what You have promised of. You do not uncover the hidden secrets of Your people. O my Lord, You know what I conceal and what I show of my behaviors, movements, and all my emotions. O my Lord, You see the sufferings of the people of Your obedience and what they meet from Your enemies, and You are generous and not stingy in Your blessings, and the more efforts require more reward. You have ordered Your people of supplication if they turn to You sincerely and this requires the more of Your favors. These forelocks and necks are submissive to You subserviently acknowledging Your deity, invoking on You with their hearts, and looking forward to Your prompt rewarding, and what You willed took place and what You will shall take place. You are the called upon, the hoped for, and the asked that no taker whatever great he is shall decrease You(r favors), and no asker whatever he insists and invokes shall weary You. Your kingdom shall not come to an end, and Your eternal glory shall remain forever, and nothing in the ages is out of Your will a bit. You are Allah, there is no god but You the Merciful, the Mighty. O Allah, assist us by Your assistance, suffice us with Your protection, and give us what You give those who hold fast by Your rope, who shade themselves under Your shade…’[1]
[1] Dala’il
al-Imama, p.227.
[2] Qunut is a supplication recited in the prayer.[1] Muhaj ad-Da’awat, p.62-63. |
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His Du’a In The Morning“O You, the greater than every great, Who have no partner and no vizier, O You, the Creator of the sun and the lighting moon, the shelter to the resorting fearful, the Liberator of tied captives, the nourisher of young babies, the setter of broken bones, the Merciful to the old, the light of light, the Manager of affairs, the Resurrector of those in graves, the Healer of chests, the Maker of shadow and hot, the Aware of all in chests, the Revealer of the Book, light, the great Qur'an, and
the Book of Psalms, O You, Whom angels glorify in the morning
and night, O You, the Permanent and Eternal, the Bringer forth
of plants in the early morning and afternoon, the Enlivener of
the dead, the Resurrector of decayed bones, the Hearer of
sounds, the Everlasting, the Dresser of bones that decay after
death! O You, Whom nothing distracts from any other thing, Who
do not change from a state to another, Who do not need to move
or advance, Whom no affair prevents from any other affair, Who
cancel for charity and supplication what has been determined and
affirmed in the Heaven of bad judgment, Whom no place can
include or encompass, Who put remedy in what You like of things,
Who keep alive from serious disease with the least of
nourishment, Who remove by the least of remedy the worst of
diseases, O You, Who if promise, carry out, if threaten, pardon,
O You, Who possess the needs of requesters, Who know what is
there inside the consciences of the silent, O You, the Most
Magnificent, the Generous in pardoning, O You, Who have a face
that does never become old, Who have infinite sovereignty, Who
have inextinguishable light, Whose throne is over everything,
Whose authority is over the land and the sea, Whose wrath is in
the Hell, Whose mercy is in the Paradise, Whose promises are
true, Whose favors are uncountable, Whose mercy is wide, O You,
the Helper of the callers for help, the Responder to the call of
the compelled, O You, Who are in the high view and Your creation
is in the low view, O You, the Lord of the mortal souls, the
Lord of the worn bodies, the most perceptive of seers, the most
hearing of hearers, the promptest of accounters, the wisest of
judges, the Most Merciful of the merciful, the Giver of gifts,
the Releaser of captives, the Lord of glory, the One of piety
and forgiveness, O You, Whose limit cannot be perceived, Whose
number cannot be counted, Whose aid does not cease, I bear
witness, and the witness to me is honor and supply, and from me
obedience and submission, and by which I hope deliverance on the
day of sigh and regret,
that You are Allah; there is no god but You alone with no
partner, and that Muhammad is Your slave and messenger, Your
blessing be on him and on his progeny, and that he has informed
and carried out on behalf of You what was his duty to You, and
that You always create, provide with livelihood, give, deny,
exalt, humble, enrich, impoverish, disappoint, help, pardon,
show mercy, forgive, overlook what You know, do not wrong,
straiten, enlarge, omit, fix, initiate, reproduce, enliven and
make die; have mercy on Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad and
guide me from You, give me from Your favor, spread on me from
Your mercy, and send down to me from Your blessings, for You
often have accustomed me to good and favor, given me too much,
and uncovered my ugly deeds.
O Allah, have blessings on Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad
and hasten my deliverance, forgive my slips, pity my loneliness,
take me to the best of Your worships, gift me with healthiness
from my illness, plenty of my supplies, inclusive soundness in
my body, insight in my religion, and help me to ask you for
forgiveness before death comes and hoping stops, and help me
bear death and its distress, grave and its loneliness, the
scales and their lightness, the sirat[1] and
its slip, the Day of Resurrection and its terror. I ask You for
the acceptance of deeds before death, and ask You for strength
in my hearing and sight for the doing of the best of that You
have taught and made me understand. You are the lofty Lord, and
I am the humble slave, and how great difference there is between
us! O You, Compassionate, Benefactor, of Glory and Honor, have
blessings on Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad the good, the
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The Imam’s Amulet
Imam Abu Muhammad (a.s.) suffered different kinds of oppression and cruelty during the reign of al-Mutawakkil and other Abbasid kings whom the imam was contemporary with. Therefore, he resorted to Allah to protect him from their plots and save him from their evils. He armed himself with this du’a: “I have charmed myself with the charm of Allah; the light by which He has hidden from eyes, and taken precaution for my self, family, children, properties, and all that under my charge by the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful, and sought refuge for myself and all that from what I fear and beware of with Allah Who (there is no god but Him, the Everliving, the Eternal. Slumber does not overtake Him nor sleep; whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His, who is he that can intercede with Him but by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot comprehend anything out of His knowledge except what He pleases, His knowledge extends over the heavens and the earth, and the preservation of them both tires Him not, and He is the Most High, the Great),[1] (And who is more unjust than he who is reminded of the signs of his Lord, then he turns away from them and forgets what his two hands have sent before? Surely We have placed veils over their hearts lest they should understand it and a heaviness in their ears; and if you call them to the guidance, they will not ever follow the right course in that case),[2] (Have you seen him who makes his desire his god, and Allah sends him astray purposely, and seals up his hearing and his heart, and sets on his sight a covering? Then who will lead him after Allah (has condemned him)? Will ye not then heed?),[3] (These are they on whose hearts and their hearing and their eyes Allah has set a seal, and these are the heedless ones),[4] (And when you recite the Qur’an, We place between you and those who do not believe in the hereafter a hidden barrier. And We have placed coverings on their hearts and a heaviness in their ears lest they understand it, and when you mention your Lord alone in the Qur’an they turn their backs in aversion),[5] and may Allah have blessings on Muhammad and on his pure progeny…”[6] This du’a shows the extent of the fears the imam (a.s.) felt from the Abbasids, and therefore, he resorted to Allah to save him and his family from their (the Abbasid’s) oppression and plotting. He also charmed himself from the Abbasids by this du’a: “O You, my means at my distress, O You, my succor at my grief, O You, my relief at my loneliness, guard me by Your eye that does not sleep, and shield me by Your shelter that is unreachable.’[1]
[1] Maqatil
at-Talibiyeen, p.604.
[1] Qur'an,
2:255.
[2] Qur'an, 18:57. [3] Qur'an, 54:23. [4] Qur'an, 16:108. [5] Qur'an, 17:45-46. [6] Muhaj ad-Da’awat, p.44-45.
[1] Muhaj
ad-Da’awat, p.45.
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Persecuting The People Of Qum
The Abbasids persecuted the people of Qum and treated them with oppression and terror. They appointed Musa bin Yahya, who was wicked and unjust, as wali over them. He was impolite, immoral, and inhuman that people desisted from him. He treated people in a very bad way and exaggerated in oppressing them until the notables of Qum resorted to Imam Abu Muhammad (a.s.) complaining to him at what that tyrant did to them. The imam prayed Allah the Almighty to save them from the evil of that mean, oppressive wali, and taught them this du’a and asked them to recite it in the qunut of their prayers so that Allah might relieve them from this calamity: “Praise be to Allah as gratefulness to his blessings, calling for His more, imploring His livelihood, being loyal to Him and not to other than Him, and refraining from disbelieving in Him and denying His might and exaltedness, a praise of one who knows that all the blessings he has are from his Lord, and the punishments that afflict him are for the wrongs his hands have committed, and the blessings of Allah be on Muhammad His slave and messenger, and the best of His creation, and the means of believers towards His mercy, and (blessings be) on his pure progeny who are his guardians. O Allah, You have called (Your people) for Your favor, and ordered (them) to supplicate You, and You have insured response to Your people. You have not disappointed whoever resorted to You with a wish and turned to You with a need. You have not let any asking hand come back empty from Your gift or desperate of Your donation. Was there any traveler who traveled to You and did not find You near, or a comer who came to You and You put obstacles between You and him?! Was there any insister on asking You that the flow of Your favor did not include him…? O Allah, I come to You with my wish, the hand of my request knocks at the door of Your favor, my heart invokes You with the reverence of submission, and I found You the best intercessor for me with You. You know my request before it comes to my mind or gets in my imagination. O Allah, so complete my du’a by Your response to me and meet my request by the satisfying of my wish! O Allah, the aberration of seditions has included us, the haze of confusion has overcome us, meanness and lowness have fought with us, the untrustworthy on Your religion have ruled over us, the wicked, who have annulled Your rule, have extorted our affairs and tried to damage Your people and corrupt Your land. O Allah, our wealth is appropriated after it was distributed (among all), and our rule has become domination after it was shura (consultation) and monarchy after it was the nation’s option; amusements and musicals have been bought by the shares of orphans and widows, non-Muslims rule over the believers, and sinners have been entrusted with their (people’s) affairs, and no protector protected them from a danger, and no guardian looked at them with the eye of mercifulness, and no kind one satisfied the thirsty hearts from a famine, and so they are weak and hungry in a home of loss, captives of wretchedness, inheritors of melancholy, meanness… O Allah, the plant of falseness has come to harvest, reached its full, its stick has become firm…its branches have gone high and fixed. O Allah, bring, from the truth, its reaper to reap it, break its stock, smash its branches, cut off its hump, and amputate its extents, so that falseness, with its ugly picture, disappears, and truth, with its beautiful dress, appears. O Allah, let no pillar of oppression, but You tear it down, no shield, but You expose it, no unity, but You separate it, no heavy force, but You slight it, no high rank, but You make it low, no post of a banner, but You turn it over, and no lively thing, but You perish it. O Allah, cover his[1] sun, put out his light, efface his mention, hit, by the truth, his head, scatter his armies, and frighten the hearts of his people! O Allah, do not let a remainder of him, unless it is annihilated, nor a structure unless it is torn down, nor a unity unless it is broken, nor an arm unless it is disabled, nor a boundary unless it is violated, nor a flagpole unless it is overthrown! O Allah, show us his supporters scattered after affinity, separate after unity, and disgraced after their domination over the nation! O Allah, bring us the day of justice, and show it to us eternal with no darkness in it, and pure light with no mix with it, and make its goodness fall down on us, and its blessing come down on us, and avenge on his[2]opponent, and support him over his enemy! O Allah, show the truth,[3] and make it shine in the dusk of darkness, and ambiguity of confusion!
[1] The
unjust ruler.
[2] The awaited savior. [3] He meant by “the truth” the savior who would rule with justice, and remove all kinds of oppression.
O Allah, enliven by it the dead hearts, unite by it the separate desires and different opinions, establish by it the annulled penalties and neglected rulings, satiate by it the hungry stomachs, relieve by it the weak and tired bodies, as You made us mention it, and put into our mind Your supplicating, made us successful in calling for it, and keeping the people of ignorance away from it, house in our hearts its love, and eagerness to it, and expecting it to establish its ceremonies! O Allah, give us best certainty on it, O You, the Achiever of good wills, the Attainer of delayed hopes. O Allah, refute the fabricators who fabricate against You in it, and confute the suspicions of the desperate of Your mercy and desperate of it! O Allah, make us a means of its means, a figure of its figures, a fort of its forts, and brighten our faces with its bright, honor us by its support, and make our intention good… O Allah, You have made us know our selves, and see our defects that we fear not to be able to respond to You, while You favor those who do not deserve, and bestow on requesters before they request, so give us due to Your generosity and favor, for You do what You like, and determine as You want, and we have resorted to You, and repented of our sins. O Allah,…and the caller for You, the doer of justice from Your people, the poor to Your mercy, and the needy to Your help on Your obedience…You have given him your blessing, dressed him with the dresses of Your honor, thrown on him the love of Your obedience, fixed his love in the hearts, made him successful to do Your command that the people of his time are indifferent of, made him a resort to the wronged of Your people, and a support to those who do not find a supporter save You, and a restorer of what has been annulled of the verdicts of Your Book, and a builder of what has been ruined of the laws of Your religion, and the rulings of Your Prophet, Your blessing, peace, and mercy be on him and on his progeny. O Allah, make him safe from the plotting of enemies…and take him to the best that You have taken the doers of Your justice from among the successors of prophets. O Allah, degrade by him whoever does not turn back to Your love, and whoever bears enmity against him, and shoot by Your deadly stone whoever incites against Your religion by degrading him and scattering his power… O Allah, as he has made himself as a target to the far for the sake of You, and sacrificed his soul to defend the believers, and resist the evil of suspicious apostates until he shall remove spread disobediences, and show what ulama have left behind their backs whereas they have covenanted to declare it for people and not to conceal it, and he shall call for the obedience of You alone, without making a partner to You from Your creation that his command may be over Yours…O Allah, assist him by Your victory, enable him in what he is unable in, increase his power from Your assistance… O Allah, honor him with the doing of Your command to see the standing of Reckoning as it is, delight Your Prophet (Your blessings be on him) by seeing him and whoever follows him in his mission, reward him with the best for doing Your command, take him closer to You in his life, and pity our wretchedness…O Allah, make him safe from what is feared for him, drive away from him the arrows of plotting that the people of grudge throw at him and at the participant in his matter and his assistants on the obedience of Allah Whom You have made as his fort, resort, and comfort and who leave their families and children and country, give up comfortable beds and ease, stop their trades, harm their livings…and rejected the transient pleasures of this world. O Allah, keep them in Your safety and protection, defend them against whoever has enmity against them from Your people, suffice them and provide them with Your help, assistance, and victory, defeat, by their right, the falseness of whoever wants to put out Your light. O Allah, fill by them every horizon and every country with justice, fairness, mercifulness, and virtue, and thank them due to Your generosity and bounty with what You have bestowed on the doers of justice from Your people, and saved for them from Your reward that might raise in degrees, You do whatever You like, and determine whatever You want…’[1] |