cause my faith to reach the most perfect faith,

make my certainty the most excellent certainty,

and take my intention to the
best of intentions and my works
to the best of works!

O God, complete my intention
through Thy gentleness,

rectify my certainty through
what is with Thee,

and set right what is corrupt
in me through Thy power!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

spare me the concerns which distract me,

employ me in that about which Thou wilt
ask me tomorrow,

and let me pass my days in that
for which Thou hast created me!

Free me from need,

expand Thy provision toward me,

and tempt me not with ingratitude!

Exalt me and afflict me not with pride!

Make me worship Thee and corrupt not
my worship with self-admiration!

Let good flow out from my hands
upon the people and efface it not
by my making them feel obliged!

Give me the highest moral traits
and preserve me from vainglory!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

raise me not a single degree
before the people without
lowering me its like in myself and
bring about no outward exaltation
for me without an inward abasement
in myself to the same measure!

O God, bless Muhammad and Muhammad's Household,

give me to enjoy a sound guidance
which I seek not to replace,

a path of truth from which I swerve not,

and an intention of right conduct
in which I have no doubts!

Let me live as long as my life is
a free gift in obeying Thee,

but if my life should become
a pasture for Satan,

seize me to Thyself before Thy
hatred overtakes me or Thy wrath
against be becomes firm!

O God, deposit in me no quality for
which I will be faulted,

unless Thou settest it right,

no flaw for which I will be blamed,

unless Thou makest it beautiful,

no deficient noble trait,

unless Thou completest it!

O God, bless Muhammad and Muhammad's
Household and replace for me the
animosity of the people of
hatred with love,

the envy of the people of
insolence with affection,

the suspicion of the people of
righteousness with trust,

the enmity of those close
with friendship,

the disrespect of womb relatives
with devotion,

the abandonment of relatives
with help,

the attachment of flatterers
with love set right,

the rejection of fellows
with generous friendliness,

and the bitterness of the fear of
wrongdoers with the sweetness of security!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

appoint for me a hand against him
who wrongs me,

a tongue against him
who disputes with me,

and a victory over him
who stubbornly resists me!

Give me guile against him
who schemes against me,

power over him who oppresses me,

refutation of him who reviles me,

and safety from him who threatens me!

Grant me success to obey him who points
me straight and follow him who guides me right!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household
and point me straight to resist him
who is dishonest toward me with good counsel,

repay him who separates from me
with gentle devotion,

reward him who deprives me
with free giving,

recompense him who cuts me
off with joining,

oppose him who slanders me
with excellent mention,

give thanks for good,

and shut my eyes to evil!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

adorn me with the adornment
of the righteous,

and clothe me in the ornaments
of the godfearing,

through spreading justice,

restraining rage,

quenching the flame of hate,

bringing together
the people of separation,

correcting discord,

spreading about good behaviour,

covering faults,

mildness of temper,

lowering the wing,

beauty of conduct,

gravity of bearing,

agreeableness in comportment,

precedence in reaching excellence,

preferring bounteousness,

refraining from condemnation,

bestowing bounty on the undeserving,

speaking the truth,

though it be painful,

making little of the good
in my words and deeds,

though it be much,

and making much of the evil
in my words and deeds,

though it be little!

Perfect this for me through
lasting obedience,

holding fast to the community,

and rejecting the people of innovation
and those who act in accordance
with original opinions!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

appoint for me Thy widest
provision in my old age and Thy
strongest strength when I am exhausted,

try me not with laziness in worship of Thee,

blindness toward Thy path,

undertaking what opposes love for Thee,

joining with him who has
separated himself from Thee,

and separating from him who
has joined himself to Thee!

O God, make me leap to Thee
in times of distress,

ask from Thee in needs,

and plead to Thee in misery!

Tempt me not to seek help from
other than Thee when I am distressed,

to humble myself in asking from
someone else when I am poor,

or to plead with someone less
than Thee when I fear,

for then I would deserve Thy abandonment,

Thy withholding,

and Thy turning away,

O Most Merciful of the merciful!

O God, make the wishing,

the doubt,

and the envy which Satan throws into my
heart a remembrance of Thy mightiness,

a reflection upon Thy power,

and a devising against Thy enemy!

Make everything he causes
to pass over my tongue,

- the indecent or ugly words,

the maligning of good repute,

the false witness,

the speaking ill of an absent man
of faith or the reviling of one present,

and all things similar
- a speech in praise of Thee,

a pursual of eulogizing Thee,

an excursion in magnifying Thee,

a thanksgiving for Thy favour,

an acknowledgement of Thy beneficence,

and an enumeration of Thy kindnesses!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

let me not be wronged while Thou
canst repel from me,

let me not do wrong while Thou
art powerful over holding me back,

let me not be misguided while
Thou art able to guide me,

let me not be poor while
with Thee is my plenty,

let me not be insolent while
from Thee comes my wealth!

O God, I come to Thy forgiveness,

I go straight to Thy pardon,

I yearn for Thy forbearance,

and I trust in Thy bounty,

but there is nothing with me
to make me warrant Thy forgiveness,

nothing in my works to make
me merit Thy pardon,

and nothing on my behalf after I
judge my soul but Thy bounty,

so bless Muhammad and his Household
and bestow Thy bounty upon me!

O God, make my speech be guidance,

inspire me with reverential fear,

give me success in that which is most pure,

and employ me in what is
most pleasing to Thee!

O God, let me tread the
most exemplary path and make
me live and die in Thy creed!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

give me to enjoy moderation,

make me into one of the
people of right behaviour,

the proofs of right conduct,

and the servants of righteousness,

and provide me with triumph at
the place of Return and safety
from the Ambush!

O God, take to Thyself from
my soul what will purify it
and leave for my soul that of
my soul that will set it right,

for my soul will perish
unless Thou preservest it!

O God, Thou art my stores when I sorrow,

Thou art my recourse when I am deprived,

from Thee I seek aid when
troubled and with Thee is a
substitute for everything gone by,

a correction for everything corrupted,

and a change from everything
Thou disapprovest.

So show kindness to me with
well-being before affliction,

wealth before asking,

right conduct before misguidance;

suffice me against the burden of
shame toward the servants,

give me security on the Day of Return,

and grant me excellent right guidance!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

repel from me through Thy gentleness,

feed me through Thy favour,

set me right through Thy generosity,

heal me through Thy benefaction,

shade me in Thy shelter,

wrap me in Thy good pleasure,

and give me success to reach the
most guided of affairs when affairs
confuse me,

the purest of works when works seem similar,

and the most pleasing to Thee of
creeds when creeds conflict!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

crown me with sufficiency,

place in me excellent guardianship,

give me to guide correctly,

tempt me not with plenty,

grant me excellent ease,

make not my life toil and trouble,

and refuse not my supplication in rejection,

for I make none rival to Thee and I
supplicate none with Thee as equal!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

hold me back from prodigality,

fortify my provision against ruin,

increase my possessions through blessing them,

and set me upon the path of guidance
through piety in what I spend!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

spare me the burden of earning,

and provide for me without reckoning,

lest I be distracted from Thy
worship through seeking and carry
the load of earning's ill results!

O God, bestow upon me what I seek
through Thy power and grant me
sanctuary from what I fear through Thy might!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

save my face through ease,

and demean not my dignity through neediness,

lest I seek provision from those
whom Thou hast provided and asks for
bestowal from the worst of Thy creatures!

Then I would be tried by praising
him who gave to me and afflicted with
blaming him who held back from me,

while Thou - not they - art patron
of giving and holding back.

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household
and provide me with soundness in worship,

detachment in renunciation,

knowledge put into action,

and abstinence in measure!

O God, seal my term with Thy pardon,

verify my expectation in hoping for Thy mercy,

smooth my paths to reach Thy good pleasure,

and make my works good in all my states!

O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,

incite me to remember Thee in times of heedlessness,

employ me in Thy obedience in days of disregard,

open a smooth road for me to Thy love,

and complete for me thereby the good of
this world and the next!

O God, and bless Muhammad and his Household
the best Thou hast blessed
any of Thy creatures before
him and wilt bless any of them after him,

and give to us in this World good,

and in the next world good,

and protect me through Thy mercy from
the chastisement of the Fire!