Dua for Sustenance (2)

Imam al-Baqir (`a) is reported to have said to Zayd al-Shahham: For sustenance, you may say the following supplicatory prayer in the obligatory prayer while you are in the position of prostration:

يَا خَيْرَ ٱلْمَسْؤُولِينَ

ya khayra almas'ulina

O best of all those whom may be besought

وَيَا خَيْرَ ٱلْمُعْطِينَ

wa ya khayra almu`tina

and O best of all those who may give,

ٱرْزُقْنِي وَٱرْزُقْ عِيَالِي مِنْ فَضْلِكَ

urzuqni warzuq `iyali min fadlika

(please) provide me and my dependants with sustenance out of Your grace,

فَإِنَّكَ ذُو ٱلْفَضْلِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ

fa'innaka dhu alfadli al`azimi

for You verily the Lord of great favoring.