دعاء الاعتصام
Dua al-I'tisam
36 verses Source: Mafatih al-Jinan
This translation was machine-assisted and is awaiting scholarly review. The Arabic above is the authoritative text.
- 1
اصْبَحْتُ ٱللَّهُمَّ مُعْتَصِماً بِذِمَامِكَ وَجِوَارِكَ ٱلْمَنِيعِ
O Allah, I have begun this morning([1]) seeking refuge with Your invulnerable security and vicinity
- 2
ٱلَّذِي لاَ يُطَاوَلُ وَلاَ يُحَاوَلُ
that is neither touched nor caught
- 3
مِنْ شَرِّ كُلِّ غَاشِمٍ وَطَارِقٍ
against the evil of all oppressive and domineering ones
- 4
مِنْ سَائِرِ مَنْ خَلَقْتَ وَمَا خَلَقْتَ
among all Your animate and inanimate creatures
- 5
مِنْ خَلْقِكَ ٱلصَّامِتِ وَٱلنَّاطِقِ
both the silent and the speaking,
- 6
في جُنَّةٍ مِنْ كُلِّ مَخُوفٍ
being in protection against all terrifying things,
- 7
بِلِبَاسٍ سَابِغَةٍ حَصِينَةٍ
being in the complete and immunizing garb,
- 8
وَهِيَ وَلاَءُ اهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكَ
which is my loyalty to the Household of Your Prophet
- 9
مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّىٰ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ
Muhammad, may Allah bless him and his Household,
- 10
مُحْتَجِزاً مِنْ كُلِّ قَاصِدٍ لِي إِلَىٰ اذِيَّةٍ
veiling myself against all those who intend harm to me
- 11
بِجِدَارٍ حَصِينٍ
behind an impervious wall,
- 12
ٱلإِخْلاَصِ فِي ٱلِٱعْتِرَافِ بِحَقِّهِمْ
which is my sincerity in the profession of their (Divinely commissioned) right (of leadership)
- 13
وَٱلتَّمَسُّكِ بَحَبْلِهِمْ جَمِيعاً
and my adherence to the Rope of all of them,
- 14
مُوقِناً انَّ ٱلْحَقَّ لَهُمْ وَمَعَهُمْ
and bearing with certainty that the truth is theirs, with them,
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وَمِنْهُمْ وَفِيهِمْ وَبِهِمْ
from them, in them, and amid them.
- 16
اوَالِي مَنْ وَالَوْٱ
I thus accede to those whom they accept,
- 17
وَاعَادِي مَنْ عَادَوْٱ
provoke the animosity of those whom they antagonize,
- 18
وَاجَانِبُ مَنْ جَانَبُوٱ
and depart those whom they depart.
- 19
فَصَلِّ عَلَىٰ مُحَمَّدٍ وَآلِهِ
So, (please) send blessings upon Muhammad and his Household
- 20
وَاعِذْنِي ٱللَّهُمَّ بِهِمْ
and, O Allah, protect me, in the names of them,
- 21
مِنْ شَرِّ كُلِّ مَا اتَّقيهِ يَا عَظِيمُ
against the evil of all that which I fear, O All-great.
- 22
حَجَـزْتُ ٱلاعَادِيَ عَنِّي بِبَدِيعِ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلارْضِ
I am restraining the enemies against me through the Originator of the heavens and the earth:
- 23
«إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا مِنْ بَيْنِ ايْديهِمِ سَدّاً
"And We have set a bar before them
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وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ سَدّاً
and a bar behind them,
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فَاغْشَيْنَاهُمْ فَهُمْ لاَ يُبْصِرُونَ.»
and (thus) have covered them so that they see not."
- 26
الَّلهُمَّ انِّي اسْالُكَ بِحَقِّ هٰذِهِ ٱلتُّربَةِ ٱلْمُبَارَكَةِ
O Allah, I beseech You in the name of this blessed dust,
- 27
وَبِحَقِّ صَاحِبِهَا
in the name of its owner,
- 28
وبِحَقِّ جَدِّهِ وَبِحَقِّ ابِيهِ
in the name of his grandfather, in the name of his father,
- 29
وبِحَقِّ امِّهِ وبِحَقِّ اخِيهِ
in the name of his mother, in the name of his brother,
- 30
وَبِحَقِّ وُلْدِهِ ٱلطَّاهِرِينَ
and in the name of his immaculate sons
- 31
ٱجْعَلْهَا شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ
to make it curative of every malady,
- 32
وَامَاناً مِنْ كُلِّ خَوْفٍ
security against every fear,
- 33
وَحِفْظاً مِنْ كُلِّ سُوءٍ
and safeguard against every evil.
- 34
اَللَّهُمَّ ٱجْعَلْهُ رِزْقاً وَاسِعاً
O Allah, (please) render this to be liberal sustenance,
- 35
وَعِلْماً نَافِعاً
advantageous knowledge,
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وَشِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ وَسُقْمٍ
and curative from all maladies and diseases.