Dua Ahd
Imam Saadiq (a.s) narrates that “one who recites this supplication for 40
mornings; he will be accounted amongst the helpers of Imam Mahdi (a.t.f.s). And
if he happens to die before the reappearance of Imam Mahdi (a.t.f.s), Allah will
raise him up from his rave so that he may assist the holy Imam (a.t.f.s).For
every word that he recites in this supplication, Allah will grant him 1000 good
deeds and will erase from his scroll of deeds 1000 sins”.
As the title suggests, this supplication is of allegiance (ahad) to the holy
Imam (a.t.f.s). Its recitation every morning ensures the renewal of this
covenant. The reciter finds himself under the leadership of Imam (a.t.f.s).The
reciter beseeches All to include him among the helpers and aides of Imam (a.t.f.s)
and to grant him the opportunity to attain martyrdom in his presence. Also, he
requests Allah that should he die before the reappearance of Imam (a.t.f.s).
Allah should raise him up from his grave so that he may assist him (a.t.f.s) in
his mission.
There is a fervent appeal to Allah to grant him the honour of seeing Imam (a.t.f.s).
In this there is also an acknowledgement that the difficulties of this nation
can be solved only by the reappearance of Imam (a.t.f.s) and that believers see
it as being close while others deem it to be distant.
O Allah! Lord of the
Great Light, Lord of the Elevated Throne, Lord of
the tumultuous seas, and the revealer of the Tawrah,
Injeel, and Zaboor, Lord of the shadows and the
warmths, And the revealer of the Great Quran. Lord
of the proximate angels and prophets and messengers.
O Allah I beseech thee, for the sake of Your Nobel
Visage. And for the sake of Your Enlightening
Visage, and Your ever existing kingdom. O Ever
Living! O Controller! I beseech Thee in Your Name
which lits the heavens and the earths; and in Your
Name, by which the ancient and the latter ones
become upright. O Ever living who has before every
living being. O Ever Living Who shall (exist) after
every living being. O Ever Living Who existed when
there was no life. O Giver of life to dead. O One
Who causes death to the living one. O Ever Living.
There is no god except Thou. O Allah send our master
the leader, the guide, the guided, the upriser with
Your command. Blessings of Allah be on him and his
pure forefathers from all the believing men and
believing women. In the easts of the earth and it's
wests, in its plains and its mountains, its lands
and its seas, from me and my parents. Blessings,
which are the weight of Allah's throne and ink of
His words, and whatever His knowledge enumerates and
His book encompases. O Allah renew for him my
covenant, pledge and allegiance on my neck in the
morning of this day of mine and whatever days (of my
life) I live. I shall never turn away from it nor
let it ever vanish. O Allah appoint me among his
helpers, aides, and his protectors. Those who hasten
to fulfill his commands and obey his orders. Those
who are his supporters and compete with each other
to (fulfill) his intention and seek martyrdom in his
presence. O Allah! If death occurs between me and
him (before the reappearance) (death) which you have
made obligatory and decreed for your servants, then
raise me from my grave, wrapped in my shroud, my
sword unsheathed, my spear bared, answering the call
of the caller in cities as well as deserts. O Allah!
Show me the rightly guided face of (Imam a.s.), the
praiseworthy moon (referring to the face of Imam a.s.)
and enlighten my vision by looking at him. And
hasten his reappearance, make his arrival smooth,
vasten his path, make me tread on his way and
implement his authority and strengthen his back. O
Allah inhabit Your cities through him and give life
to Your servants due to him for surely You have said
and Your word is truth, "Corruption will become
rampant in land and on sea because of the evil which
men's hand have earned" Then O Allah manifest for us
Your slave and the son of Your Prophet's daughter,
whose name is the same as that of Your messenger, so
that nothing from falsehood is victorious except
that he tears them (falsehood) to pieces,
establishes the truth and the truth confirms him.
And O Allah! Appoint him as a refuge for Your
oppressed servants and a helper for the one who does
not find any helper for himself except You and the
renewer of all the laws of Your book which have been
tampered with and the rebuilder of the science of
Your religion and the traditions of Your Prophet
(peace of Allah be on him and his progeny) and O
Allah! make him among those whom you have protected
from the evils of the adversaries. O Allah! and
provide joy to Your Prophet Mohammed (peace be on
him and his progeny) by his vision and (the vision
of) the one who follows him on his call and have
mercy on our poverty after his arrival O Allah
remove his sorrow (of occultation) from this nation
with his presence and hasten for us his
reappearance. They (the disbelievers) consider it to
be distant while we consider it to be near. For the
sake of Your mercy, O the most Merciful of all
Mercifuls. |
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