Sahifa Sajjadiya 42: Upon Completing a Reading of the Qur'an

أَللَّهُمَّ إنَّكَ أَعَنْتَنِي عَلَى خَتْمِ كِتَابِكَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلْتَهُ نُوراً وَجَعَلْتَهُ مُهَيْمِناً عَلَى كُلِّ كِتَاب أَنْزَلْتَهُ، وَفَضَّلْتَهُ عَلَى كُلِّ حَدِيث قَصَصْتَهُ، وَفُرْقاناً فَرَقْتَ بِهِ بَيْنَ حَلالِكَ وَحَرَامِكَ، وَقُرْآناً أَعْرَبْتَ بِهِ عَنْ شَرَائِعِ أَحْكَامِكَ، وَكِتَاباً فَصَّلْتَهُ لِعِبَادِكَ تَفْصِيلاً، وَوَحْياً أَنْزَلْتَهُ عَلَى نَبِيِّكَ مُحَمَّد صَلَوَاتُكَ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ تَنْزِيلاً، وَجَعَلْتَهُ نُوراً نَهْتَدِي مِنْ ظُلَمِ الضَّلاَلَةِ وَالْجَهَـالَةِ بِـاتِّبَاعِـهِ، وَشِفَـاءً لِمَنْ أَنْصَتَ بِفَهْم التَّصْدِيقِ إلَى اسْتِمَاعِهِ، وَمِيزَانَ قِسْط لاَ يَحِيْفُ عَنِ الْحَقِّ لِسَانُهُ، وَنُورَ هُدىً لاَ يُطْفَأُ عَنِ الشَّاهِدِينَ بُرْهَانُهُ، وَعَلَمَ نَجَاة لاَ يَضِلُّ مَنْ أَمَّ قَصْدَ سُنَّتِهِ وَلاَ تَنَالُ أَيْدِي الْهَلَكَاتِ مَنْ تَعَلَّقَ بِعُرْوَةِ عِصْمَتِهِ، أَللَّهُمَّ فَإذْ أَفَدْتَنَا الْمعُونَةَ عَلَى تِلاَوَتِهِ، وَسَهَّلْتَ جَوَاسِيَ أَلْسِنَتِنَا بِحُسْنِ عِبَارَتِهِ، فَاجْعَلْنَا مِمَّنْ يَرْعَاهُ حَقَّ رِعَايَتِهِ، وَيَدِينُ لَكَ بِاعْتِقَادِ التَّسْلِيْمِ لِمُحْكَمِ آياتِهِ، وَيَفْزَعُ إلى الإِقْرَارِ بِمُتَشَابِهِهِ وَمُوضَحَاتِ بَيِّناتِهِ. أللَّهُمَّ إنَّكَ أَنْزَلْتَهُ عَلَى نَبِيِّكَ مُحَمَّد صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ مُجْمَلاً، وَأَلْهَمْتَهُ عِلْمَ عَجَائِبِهِ مُكَمَّلاً، وَوَرَّثْتَنَا عِلْمَهُ مُفَسَّراً، وَفَضَّلْتَنَا عَلَى مَنْ جَهِلَ عِلْمَهُ، وَقَوَّيْتَنَا عَلَيْهِ لِتَرْفَعَنَا فَوْقَ مَنْ لَمْ يُطِقْ حَمْلَهُ. أللَّهُمَّ فَكَمَا جَعَلْتَ قُلُوبَنَا لَهُ حَمَلَةً، وَعَرَّفْتَنَا بِرَحْمَتِكَ شَرَفَهُ وَفَضْلَهُ، فَصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد الْخَطِيْبِ بِهِ، وَعَلَى آلِهِ الْخُزّانِ لَهُ، وَاجْعَلْنَا مِمَّنْ يَعْتَرِفُ بِأَنـَّهُ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ حَتَّى لاَ يُعَارِضَنَا الشَّكُّ فِي تَصْدِيقِهِ وَلاَ يَخْتَلِجَنَا الزَّيْغُ عَنْ قَصْدِ طَرِيقِهِ. أللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِـهِ، وَاجْعَلْنَا مِمَّنْ يَعْتَصِمُ بِحَبْلِهِ، وَيَـأْوِي مِنَ الْمُتَشَـابِهَاتِ إلَى حِرْزِ مَعْقِلِهِ، وَيَسْكُنُ فِي ظِـلِّ جَنَاحِهِ، وَيَهْتَدِي بِضَوْءِ صَباحِهِ، وَيَقْتَدِي بِتَبَلُّج إسْفَارِهِ، وَيَسْتَصْبحُ بِمِصْباحِهِ، وَلا يَلْتَمِسُ ألْهُدَى فِي غَيْرِهِ. أللَّهُمَّ وَكَمَا نَصَبْتَ بِهِ مُحَمَّداً عَلَماً لِلدَّلالَةِ عَلَيْكَ، وَأَنْهَجْتَ بِآلِهِ سُبُلَ الرِّضَا إلَيْكَ. فَصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ وَاجْعَلِ القُرْآنَ وَسِيلَةً لَنَا إلَى أَشْرَفِ مَنَازِلِ الْكَرَامَةِ، وَسُلَّماً نَعْرُجُ فِيهِ إلَى مَحَلِّ السَّلامَةِ، وَسَبَباً نُجْزَى بِهِ النَّجاةَ فِي عَرْصَةِ الْقِيَامَةِ، وَذَرِيعَةً نُقْدِمُ بِهَا عَلَى نَعِيْمِ دَارِ الْمُقَامَةِ. أللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ وَاحْطُطْ بالْقُرْآنِ عَنَّا ثِقْلَ الأوْزَارِ، وَهَبْ لَنَا حُسْنَ شَمَائِلِ الأَبْرَارِ وَاقْفُ بِنَا آثَارَ الَّذِينَ قَامُوا لَكَ بِهِ آنَاءَ اللَّيْلِ وَأَطْرَافَ النَّهَارِ حَتَّى تُطَهِّرَنَا مِنْ كُلِّ دَنَس بِتَطْهِيرِهِ، وَتَقْفُوَ بِنَا آثَارَ الَّذِينَ اسْتَضَـآءُوْا بِنُورِهِ، وَلَمْ يُلْهِهِمُ الأَمَلُ عَنِ الْعَمَـل فَيَقْطَعَهُمْ بِخُدَعِ غُرُورِهِ. أَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ واجْعَلِ القُرْآنَ لنا فِي ظُلَمِ اللَّيالِي مُونِساً وَمِنْ نَزَغَاتِ الشَّيْطَانِ وَخَطَرَاتِ الْوَسَاوِسِ حَارِساً، وَلأقْدَامِنَا عَنْ نَقْلِهَا إلَى الْمَعَاصِيْ حَابِساً، وَلأِلْسِنَتِنَا عَنِ الْخَوْضِ فِي الباطِلِ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَا آفَة مُخْرِساً، وَلِجَوَارِحِنَا عَنِ اقْتِرَافِ الآثامِ زَاجِراً، وَلِمَا طَوَتِ الغَفْلَةُ عَنَّا مِنْ تَصَفُّحِ الاعْتِبَارِ نَاشِراً حَتَّى تُوصِلَ إلَى قُلُوبِنَا فَهْمَ عَجَائِبِهِ وَزَوَاجِرَ أَمْثَـالِهِ الَّتِي ضَعُفَتِ الْجِبَالُ الرَّوَاسِي عَلَى صَلاَبَتِهَا عَنِ احْتِمَالِهِ. اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ وَأَدِمْ بِالْقُرْانِ صَلاَحَ ظاهِرِنا، وَاحْجُبْ بِهِ خَطَراتِ الْوَسَاوِسِ عَنْ صِحَّةِ ضَمَائِرِنَا، وَاغْسِلْ بِهِ دَرَنَ قُلُوبِنَا وَعَلاَئِقَ أَوْزَارِنَا، وَاجْمَعْ بِهِ مُنْتَشَرَ أُمُورِنَا، وَأَرْوِ بِهِ فِي مَـوْقِفِ الْعَرْضِ عَلَيْكَ ظَمَأ هَوَاجِرِنَا، وَاكْسُنَا بِهِ حُلَلَ الأَمَانِ يَوْمَ الْفَزَعِ الأكْبَرِ فِي نشُورِنَا. أللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ وَاجْبُرْ بِالْقُرْآنِ خَلَّتَنَا مِنْ عَدَمِ الإمْلاَقِ، وَسُقْ إلَيْنَا بِهِ رَغَدَ الْعَيْشِ وَخِصْبَ سَعَةِ الأرْزَاقِ، وَجَنِّبْنَا بِهِ الضَّرَائِبَ الْمَذْمُومَةَ وَمَدَانِيَ الأخْلاَقِ، وَاعْصِمْنَا بِهِ مِنْ هُوَّةِ الكُفْرِ وَدَوَاعِـي النِّفَاقِ حَتَّى يَكُوْنَ لَنَا فِي الْقِيَامَةِ إلَى رِضْوَانِكَ وَجِنَانِكَ قَائِداً وَلَنَا فِي الدُّنْيا عَنْ سَخَطِكَ وَتَعَدِّي حُدُودِكَ ذَائِداً، وَلِمَا عِنْدَكَ بِتَحْلِيلِ حَلاَلِهِ وَتَحْرِيم حَرَامِهِ شَاهِداً. أللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ وَهَوِّنْ بِالْقُرْآنِ عِنْدَ الْمَوْتِ عَلَى أَنْفُسِنَا كَرْبَ السِّيَاقِ، وَجَهْدَ الأنِينِ، وَتَرادُفَ الْحَشَارِجِ إذَا بَلَغَتِ ألنُّفُوسُ التَّراقِيَ وَقِيلَ مَنْ رَاق وَتَجَلَّى مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ لِقَبْضِهَا مِنْ حُجُبِ الْغُيُوبِ، وَرَمَاهَا عَنْ قَوْسِ الْمَنَايَا بِأَسْهُمِ وَحْشَةِ الْفِرَاقِ، وَدَافَ لَهَا مِنْ ذَعَافِ الْمَوْتِ كَأْساً مَسْمُومَةَ الْمَذَاقِ، وَدَنا مِنَّا إلَى الآخِرَةِ رَحِيلٌ وَانْطِلاَقٌ، وَصَارَتِ الأعْمَالُ قَلاَئِـدَ فِي الأَعْنَاقِ، وَكَانَتِ الْقُبُورُ هِيَ الْمَأوَى إلَى مِيقَاتِ يَوْمِ التَّلاَقِ. أللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ وَبَارِكْ لَنَا فِي حُلُولِ دَارِ البِلَى وَطُولِ الْمُقَامَـةِ بَيْنَ أَطْبَـاقِ الثَّـرى، وَاجْعَلِ القبُورَ بَعْدَ فِرَاقِ الدُّنْيَا خَيْرَ مَنَازِلِنَا، وَافْسَحْ لَنَا بِرَحْمَتِكَ فِي ضِيقِ مَلاَحِدِنَا، وَلا تَفْضَحْنَا فِي حَاضِرِي الْقِيَامَةِ بِمُوبِقَاتِ آثامِنَا، وَارْحَمْ بِالْقُرْانِ فِيْ مَوْقِفِ الْعَرْضِ عَلَيْكَ ذُلَّ مَقَامِنَا، وَثَبِّتْ بِهِ عِنْدَ اضْطِرَابِ جِسْرِ جَهَنَّمَ يَوْمَ الْمَجَازِ عَلَيْهَـا زَلَلَ أَقْدَامِنَا، وَنَوِّرْ بِهِ قَبْلَ الْبَعْثِ سُدَفَ قُبُورنا، وَنَجِّنَا بِهِ مِنْ كُلِّ كَرْب يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ وَشَدَائِدِ أَهْوَالِ يَوْمِ الطَّامَّةِ وَبَيِّضْ وُجُوهَنَا يَوْمَ تَسْوَدُّ وُجُوهُ الظَّلَمَةِ فِي يَوْمِ الْحَسْرَةِ وَالنَّدَامَةِ، وَاجْعَلْ لَنَا فِي صُدُورِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وُدّاً، وَلاَ تَجْعَلِ الْحَيَاةَ عَلَيْنَا نَكَداً. أللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد عَبْدِكَ وَرَسُولِكَ كَمَا بَلَّغَ رِسَالَتَكَ، وَصَدَعَ بِأَمْرِكَ، وَنَصَحَ لِعِبَادِكَ. أللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْ نَبِيَّنا صَلَواتُكَ عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَى آلِهِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ أَقْرَبَ النِّبِيِّينَ مِنْكَ مَجْلِساً، وَأَمْكَنَهُمْ مِنْكَ شَفَاعَةً، وَأَجَلَّهُمْ عِنْدَكَ قَدْراً، وَأَوْجَهَهُمْ عِنْدَكَ جَاهَاً. أللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِ مُحَمَّد وَشَرِّفْ بُنْيَانَهُ، وَعَظِّمْ بُرْهَانَهُ، وَثَقِّلْ مِيزَانَهُ، وَتَقَبَّلْ شَفَاعَتَهُ وَقَرِّبْ وَسِيلَتَهُ، وَبَيِّضْ وَجْهَهُ، وَأَتِمَّ نُورَهُ، وَارْفَعْ دَرَجَتَهُ، وَأَحْيِنَا عَلَى سُنَّتِهِ، وَتَوَفَّنَا عَلَى مِلَّتِهِ، وَخُذْ بِنَـا مِنْهَاجَـهُ، وَاسْلُكْ بِنَا سَبِيلَهُ، وَاجْعَلْنَا مِنْ أَهْلِ طَاعَتِهِ، وَاحْشُرْنَا فِي زُمْرَتِهِ، وَأَوْرِدْنَا حَوْضَهُ، وَاسْقِنَا بِكَأسِهِ. أللَّهُمَّ وَصَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّد وَآلِهِ صَلاةً تُبَلِّغُهُ بِهَا أَفْضَلَ مَا يَأْمُلُ مِنْ خَيْرِكَ وَفَضْلِكَ وَكَرَامَتِكَ إنَّكَ ذُوْ رَحْمَة وَاسِعَة وَفَضْل كَرِيم. أللَّهُمَّ اجْزِهِ بِمَا بَلَّغَ مِنْ رِسَالاتِكَ وَأَدَّى مِنْ آيَاتِكَ وَنَصَحَ لِعِبَادِكَ وَجَاهَدَ فِي سَبِيلِكَ أَفْضَلَ مَا جَزَيْتَ أَحَداً مِنْ مَلائِكَتِكَ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ وَأَنْبِيَائِكَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ الْمُصْطَفَيْنَ. وَالسَّلاَمُ عَلَيْهِ وَعَلَى آلِهِ الطَّيِّبِينَ الطَّاهِرِينَ وَرَحْمَةُ الله وَبَرَكَاتُهُ.

1.O God, You hast helped me complete Your Book, 2.which You sent down as a light and appointed as a guardian 3.over every book You hast sent down, 4.preferring it over every narrative which You hast recounted, 5.a separator, through which You hast separated Your lawful from Your unlawful, 6.a Qur'an, through which You hast made plain the approaches to Your ordinances, 7.a book, which You hast distinguished very distinctly for Your servants, 8.a revelation, which You hast sent down, a sending down, upon Your prophet Muhammad (Your blessings be upon him and his Household). 9.You appointed it a light through following which we may be guided from the shadows of error and ignorance, 10.a healing for him who turns ear toward hearing it with the understanding of attestation, 11.a just balance whose tongue does not incline away from truth, 12.a light of guidance whose proof is not extinguished before the witnesses, 13.and a guidepost of deliverance, so that he who repairs straightway to its prescription will not go astray 14.and he who clings to its preservation's handhold will not be touched by the hands of disasters. 15.O God, since You hast given us help to recite it 16.and made smooth the roughness of our tongues through the beauty of its expression, 17.place us among those who observe it as it should be observed, 18.serve You by adhering in submission to the firm text of its verses, 19.and seek refuge in admitting both its ambiguous parts and the elucidations of its clear signs! 20.O God, You sent it down upon Your prophet 21.Muhammad (God bless him and his household) in summary form, 22.You inspired him with the science of its wonders to complement it, 23.You made us the heirs of its knowledge as interpreters, 24.You made us to surpass him who is ignorant of its knowledge, 25.and You gave us strength over it to raise us above those not able to carry it. 26.O God, just as You hast appointed our hearts as its carriers 27.and made known to us through Your mercy its nobility and excellence, 28.so also bless Muhammad, its preacher, 29.and his Household, its guardians, 30.and place us among those who confess that it has come from You, 31.lest doubt about attesting to it assail us, 32.or deviation from its straightforward path shake us! 33.O God, bless Muhammad and his Household 34.and make us one of those who hold fast to its cord, 35.seek haven from its ambiguities in its fortified stronghold, 36.rest in the shadow of its wing, 37.find guidance in the brightness of its morning, 38.follow the shining of its disclosure, 39.acquire light from its lamp, 40.and beg not guidance from any other! 41.O God, just as through it You hast set up Muhammad as a guidepost to point to You 42.and through his Household You hast made clear Your good pleasure's roads to You, 43.so also bless Muhammad and his Household 44.and make the Qur'an our mediation to the noblest stations of Your honour, 45.a ladder by which we may climb to the place of safety, 46.a cause for our being repaid with deliverance at the Plain of Resurrection, 47.and a means whereby we may reach the bliss of the House of Permanence! 48.O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, 49.lessen for us through the Qur'an the weight of heavy sins, 50.give to us the excellent qualities of the pious, 51.and make us follow the tracks of those who stood before You 52.in the watches of the night and the ends of the day, 53.such that You purifiest us from every defilement through its purification 54.and makest us to follow the tracks of those who have taken illumination from its light 55.and whom expectation has not distracted from works, cutting them off through its delusions' deceptions! 56.O God, bless Muhammad and his Household 57.and appoint the Qur'an for us an intimate in the shadows of nights 58.and a guardian against the instigations of Satan and confusing thoughts, 59.for our feet an obstruction from passing to acts of disobedience, 60.for our tongues a silencer without blight preventing a plunge into falsehood, 61.for our limbs a restrainer from committing sins, 62.and for the scrutiny of heedfulness rolled up in heedlessness an unroller, 63.such that You attachest to our hearts the understanding of the Qur'an's wonders 64.and its restraining similitudes which immovable mountains in all their solidity 65.were too weak to carry! 66.O God, bless Muhammad and his Household 67.and through the Qur'an make permanent the rightness of our outward selves, 68.veil the ideas of confusing thoughts from the soundness of our innermost minds, 69.wash away the dirt of our hearts and the ties of our heavy sins, 70.gather our scattered affairs, 71.quench the thirst of our burning heat in the standing place of the presentation to You, 72.and clothe us in the robes of security on the Day of the Greatest Terror at our uprising! 73.God, bless Muhammad and his Household 74.and through the Qur'an redress our lack - our destitution in poverty 75.drive toward us the comforts of life and an abundance of plentiful provisions, 76.turn aside blameworthy character traits and base moral qualities, 77.and preserve us from the pit of unbelief and the motives for hypocrisy, 78.such that the Qur'an may be for us at the resurrection a leader to Your good pleasure and Your gardens, 79.for us in this world a protector against Your displeasure and transgressing Your bounds 80.and for what is with You a witness by its declaring lawful the lawful and its declaring unlawful the unlawful! 81.O God, bless Muhammad and his Household 82.and through the Qur'an make easy for our souls at death the distress of the driving, 83.the effort of the moaning, and the succession of the rattling, 84.'when souls reach the throats' (ref.75:26) "and it is said, 'Where is the enchanter"? (75:27)'; 85.when the angel of death discloses himself to seize them from behind the veils of unseen things, 86.letting loose at them from the bow of destinies the arrows of the terror of lonesome separation, 87.and mixing for them from sudden death a cup poisoned to the taste; 88.and when departure and release for the hereafter come close to us, 89.works become collars around the necks, 90.and the graves become the haven until the appointed time of the Day of Encounter! 91.O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, 92.make blessed for us the arrival at the house of decay 93.and the drawn out residence between the layers of the earth, 94.appoint the graves, after separation from this world, the best of our waystations, 95.make roomy for us through Your mercy the narrowness of our tombs, 96.and disgrace us not among those present at the Resurrection through our ruinous sins! 97.Through the Qur'an have mercy upon the lowliness of our station at the standing place of presentation to You, 98.make firm the slips of our feet during the shaking of the bridge across hell 99.on the day of passage over it, 100.illuminate the darkness of our graves before the Uprising, 101.and deliver us from every distress on the Day of Resurrection 102.and from the hardships of terrors on the Day of Disaster! 103.Whiten our faces on the day when the faces of wrongdoers are blackened 104.during the Day of Regret and Remorse, 105.appoint love for us in the breasts of the faithful, 106.and make not life for us troublesome! 107.O God, bless Muhammad, Your servant and Your messenger, 108.just as He delivered Your message, executed Your command, and counselled Your servants! 109.O God, make our Prophet (Your blessings be upon him 110.and his Household) on the Day of Resurrection the nearest of the prophets to You in seat, 111.the ablest of them before You with intercession, the greatest of them with You in measure, 112.and the most eminent of them with You in rank! 113.O God, bless Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad, ennoble his edifice, 114.magnify his proof, make weighty his balance, 115.accept his intercession, bring near his mediation, 116.whiten his face, complete his light, 117.and raise his degree! Make us live according to his Sunna 118.make us die in his creed, take us on his road, 119.make us travel his path, place us among the people who obey him, 120.muster us in his band, 121.lead us to up his pool, and give us to drink of his cup! 122.And bless Muhammad and his Household, 123.with a blessing through which You wilt take him to the most excellent 124.of what He hopes of Your good, Your bounty, and Your generosity! 125.You art Possessor of boundless mercy and generous bounty. 126.O God, repay him for Your messages which he delivered, 127.Your signs which he passed on, the good counsel he gave to Your servants, 128.and the struggle he undertook in Your way, with the best You hast repaid 129.any of Your angels brought nigh and Your prophets sent out and chosen! 130.And upon him and his Household, the good, the pure, be peace, 131.God's mercy, and His blessings!