Dua for Healing (4)

Fourth: Quoted from `Uddat al-Da`i, Imam al-Sadiq (`a) — When you are ailed, go outdoors, raise your hands towards the sky, and say the following supplicatory prayer:

اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ عَيَّرْتَ أَقْوَاماً فِي كِتَابِكَ

allahumma innaka `ayyarta aqwaman fi kitabika

O Allah! Having rebuked some people in Your Book,

فَقُلْتَ: ﴿قُلِ ٱدْعُوٱ ٱلَّذِينَ زَعَمْتُمْ مِنْ دُونِهِ

faqulta qul id`u alladhina za`amtum min dunihi

You said, “Say, ‘Call on those whom you assert besides Him.

فَلاَ يَمْلِكُونَ كَشْفَ الضُّرِّ عَنْكُمْ وَلاَ تَحْوِيلاًَ﴾

fala yamlikuna kashfa alddurri `ankum wa la tahwilan

They shall not control the removal of distress from you nor its transference.’”

فَيَا مَنْ لاَ يَمْلِكُ كَشْفَ ضُرِّي وَلاَ تَحْوِيلَهُ عَنِّي أَحَدٌ غَيْرُهُ

fayaman la yamliku kashfa durri wa la tahwilahu `anni ahadun ghayruhu

O He save Whom no one controls the removal of distress nor its transference,

صَلِّ عَلَىٰ مُحَمَّدٍ وَآلِهِ

salli `ala muhammadin wa alihi

(please) bless Muhammad and his Household,

وَٱكْشِفْ ضُرِّي

wakshif durri

remove my distress,

وَحَوِّلْهُ إِلَىٰ مَنْ يَدْعُو مَعَكَ إِلٰهاً آخَرَ

wa hawwilhu ila man yad`u ma`aka ilahan akhara

and transfer it to one who calls on another deity besides You,

فَإِنِّي أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلٰهَ غَيْرُكَ

fa'inni ashhadu an la ilaha ghayruka

for I bear witness that there is no god save You.