It may be clearly
noted that the AhlulBayt’s Imams are all Infallible; they physically can make
errors or sins but they did not commit any such shortcomings associated with
all human beings. They have prescribed these supplications to guide the
humanity as to how to pray for different occasions in life.
We seek refuge in
You from the instigations of the accursed Shaitan, his trickery and his traps,
from trust in his false hopes, his promises, his delusions, and his snares.
And lest he should
make himself crave to lead us away from Your obedience, and to degrade us
through our disobeying You, and lest what he has shown us as beautiful be
beautiful for us and what he has shown
as detestable weigh down upon us.
O Allah! Drive him
away from us through Your worship, throw him down through our perseverance in
Your love, and place between him and us a covering that he cannot tear away and
a solid barrier he cannot cut through.
O Allah! Bless
Muhammad and his Household, distract Shaitan from us with some of Your enemies,
preserve us from him through Your good guarding, spare us his treachery, turn
his back towards us, and cut off from us his trace.
O Allah! Bless
Muhammad and his Household, give us to enjoy guidance the like of his
misguidance, increase us in piety against his seduction, and make us walk in
reverential fear contrary to his path of ruin.
O Allah! Assign
him no place of entrance in our hearts and do not allow him to make his home in
that which is with us.
O Allah! Cause us
to recognize the falsehood with which he tempts us, and once You have caused us
to recognize it, protect us from it. Make us see what will allow us to outwit
him, inspire us with all that we can make ready for him, awaken us from the
heedless slumber of relying upon him, and help us well, through Your giving
success against him.
O Allah! Saturate
our hearts with the rejection of his works and be gentle to us by destroying
his tricks.
O Allah! Bless
Muhammad and his Household, turn his authority away from us, cut off his hope
from us, and keep him from craving for us!
O Allah! Bless
Muhammad and his Household, and place our fathers, our mothers, our children,
our wives, our siblings, our relatives, and the faithful among our neighbors,
male and female, in a sanctuary unyielding to him, a guarding fortress, and a
defending cave. Clothe them in shields protective against him, and give them
arms that will cut him down.
O Allah! Include
in that everyone who witnesses to You as Lord, devotes himself sincerely to
Your Unity, shows enmity towards him through the reality of servant hood, and
seeks help from You against him through knowledge of divine sciences.
O Allah! Undo what
he ties, unstitch what he sew up, dislocate what he devises, frustrate him when
he makes up his mind, and destroy what he establishes.
O Allah! Rout his
troops, nullify his trickery, make his cave collapse, and rub his nose in the
ground.
O Allah! Place us
in the ranks of his enemies and remove us from the number of his friends, that
we obey him not when he entices us and answer him not when he calls to us. We
command everyone who obeys our command to be his enemy and we admonish everyone
who follows our prohibition not to follow him.
O Allah! Bless
Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets and lord of the emissaries, and the folk of
his house, the good, and the pure. Give refuge to us, our families, our
brothers, and all the faithful, male and female, from that which we seek
refuge, and grant us sanctuary from that through fear of which we seek
sanctuary in You.
Hear our supplication
to You, bestow upon us that of which we have been heedless, and safeguard for
us what we have forgotten. Through all this bring us into the ranks of the
righteous and the degrees of the faithful. Ameen
Translated from Sahifa-e-Sajjadia
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