Saturday · Reading

In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Especially Merciful. May Allah, the Exalted, send blessings and peace upon our Master Muhammad, his family and his companions. O Allah! By the rank that Your Prophet, our Master Muhammad (peace be upon him) has with You, by the love You have for him and he has for You, and by the secret between You and him, I ask You to send blessings and peace upon him, his family and his companions. Increase my love for him many times over. For his sake and his lofty stations, make me truly know him. Grant me success in following his way, living his manners and his sunnah. Grant me resolve in this. Honor me by allowing me to see the Messenger (peace be upon him). Gladden me by letting me converse with him. Remove difficulties, barriers, intermediaries and veils. Let my ears partake of his sweet address. Allow me to benefit from the knowledge and gnosis of the Messenger (peace be upon him), O Allah!... Make my prayers upon him a complete, pure, radiant light that erases every injustice, darkness, doubt, shirk, disbelief, falsehood and sin. Make that salat a cause for my purification. Through these blessings, raise me to the summit of the station of sincerity, so that no doubt remains in me that any worship is due to any besides You. Thus may I be worthy of Your presence and be joined among Your close friends. Grant that I do all this while always holding fast to the manners and sunnah of the Messenger (peace be upon him), seeking help from his noble person. O Allah! O Light! O Truth! O Manifest! O Allah! O Light! O Truth! O Manifest! O Allah! O Light! O Truth! O Manifest!

O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household. Grant our master Muhammad the station of al-Wasila, the lofty rank and virtue, and cause him to reach the Praiseworthy Station You promised. Truly, You do not break Your promise.

O Lord of the mighty Throne, O Allah, Lord of all realms! Exalt the honor of our master Muhammad, make his religion manifest, and illuminate the proofs that point to his prophethood. Bring forth his virtue, accept his intercession for his ummah, and grant us to act by his Sunnah.

Gather us beneath his banner together with his community. Give us to drink from his cup of the Kawthar drink. Let us benefit from his love. O Allah, Lord of the worlds.

O our Lord, convey to him from us the most excellent greeting of peace. Bestow Your favor upon him on behalf of his ummah.

O Allah, O our Lord! I ask You to forgive me, have mercy on me, accept my repentance, and grant me well-being from every calamity descending from the sky or emerging from the earth. By Your mercy You are powerful over all things. O our Lord! For the sake of Your mercy I ask that You pardon all male and female believers, all male and female Muslims, and their dead and their living. May Allah Most High be pleased with the pure mothers of the believers, the wives of our Prophet, with the lamps of this world—the guiding imams who are learned guides—his Companions, and the Tabi'un who followed after them, and those who follow them with excellence until the Day of Resurrection. Praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. (Beginning of the third third)

O Lord of spirits and of decayed bodies! I ask You by the obedience of the spirits returning to their bodies and the obedience of the bodies joined to their veins. All creatures stand before You hoping for Your mercy, fearing Your punishment, awaiting Your judgment. By Your words that apply to every spirit and body, and by the right You take from them, I ask You to grant me light in my sight to perceive the truth, remembrance on my tongue by night and day, and righteous deeds. Provide me with these, O my Lord!

O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad as You sent blessings upon our master Abraham, and bless him as You blessed him.

O Allah! As You sent blessings and grace upon our master Abraham and his household, send blessings and grace upon our master Muhammad and his household. Indeed, You are Praiseworthy, Glorious. O Allah! As You blessed the household of our master Abraham, bless the household of our master Muhammad. Indeed, You are Praiseworthy, Glorious.

O Allah! Send blessings upon Your servant and Messenger, our master Muhammad, and upon all male and female believers and all male and female Muslims.

O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household by the number encompassed by Your knowledge, by the measure set by Your Book, and witnessed by Your angels, with a blessing that endures as long as Your kingdom endures.

O Allah! By the lofty names I know and those I do not know, and by the names with which You named Your Essence, I ask that You send blessings upon Your servant, Your Prophet, our master Muhammad, by the number that only You know, before the sky was built, the earth spread, the mountains fixed, the springs gushed, the rivers flowed, the sun rose, the moon shone, the stars sparkled, the seas surged, and the trees bore fruit.

O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad by the number of Your knowledge. O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad by the number of Your forbearance. O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad by the number of Your inexhaustible words. O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad by the number of Your favors. O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad according to Your bounty. O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad by the number of Your generosity. O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad by the number of the heavens, and by the measure of the earth. O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad by the number of the angels You created in the seven heavens; by the number of the jinn, humans, beasts, birds and other creatures You created on earth. O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad by the number of what the Pen has written in the Preserved Tablet of decree and what it will write until the Day of Resurrection, and by the number of raindrops. O Allah! By the number of those who praise and thank You, who declare Your oneness with “La ilaha illa Allah,” who magnify You saying “Indeed, You are Praiseworthy, Glorious,” and who bear witness that You are Allah, send blessings upon our master Muhammad. O Allah! Send blessings upon him by the number of Your prayers upon him and the prayers of Your angels; by the number of those among Your creation who send blessings upon him; by the number of those who do not send blessings upon him; by the number of mountains, sands and pebbles; by the number of trees and their leaves and dried clay and all weights; by the number of what You create in every year and what perishes in it; by the number of what You create each day and what dies in it until the Day of Resurrection.

O Allah! Send blessings upon our master Muhammad by the measure of the water that the moving clouds pour down between heaven and earth; by the number of winds driven across the horizons of heaven and earth—east, west, toward the qibla and in their depths; by the number of the stars of the sky; by the number of fish, living creatures, waters, sands and all other beings You created in the seas; by the number of plants and pebbles; by the number of ants; by the amount of fresh and salty waters; by the number of blessings You have bestowed upon all creation; and by the measure of the punishment and chastisement You gave to those who denied You. O Allah! Send blessings upon him for as long as this world and the Hereafter endure; for as long as Paradise endures and as long as Hell endures. O Allah! Send blessings upon him as much as You love and are pleased with him; and as long as he loves You and is pleased with You. O Allah! Send blessings upon him forever without end. Lodge him in the nearest station to You. Grant him in Paradise the station of al-Wasila, virtue, intercession, high rank, and the Praiseworthy Station You promised. Indeed, You do not break Your promise.

O Allah! Truly You are my Owner and Master in the matters of my worldly life and my Hereafter, my refuge in every state, my assurance, the One to whom I entrust all my affairs, the One in whom alone I place my hopes and present my needs and desires. By the sanctity of the Sacred Month, the Sacred City, the Sacred Monument and the noble grave of our Prophet (peace be upon him), I ask You to grant me of good what only Your exalted Essence knows, and to protect me from evil in a measure known only to Your exalted Essence.

O Allah! You forgave our master Adam; You granted our master Seth; You gave our master Abraham his sons Ishmael and Isaac; You reunited our master Joseph with our master Jacob; You returned our master Moses to his mother; You increased our master Khidr in knowledge; You granted our master David his son our master Solomon; You bestowed upon our master Zachariah his son our master John; You gave our lady Mary her son our master Jesus; You protected the daughter of our master Shu'ayb when she encountered our master Moses—peace be upon them all. O Allah, O our Lord! I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and upon all the prophets and messengers, and to grant him intercession and the highest rank. O Allah! I ask You to forgive my sins, cover all my faults, save me from the Fire, grant me Your pleasure, safety, pardon and kindness, and to bless me in Your Garden together with the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs and the righteous whom You have favored. Truly, You are powerful over all things.

May Allah send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household for as long as the winds drive the gathered clouds and every soul tastes death. O Allah! Convey peace to the people of the Abode of Peace.

O Allah! Employ me in that for which You created me. Do not occupy me with what You have guaranteed for me of provision, filling my heart with it. You have already taken upon Yourself to provide for me, so do not deprive me while I ask You, and do not punish me while I seek Your forgiveness. O Allah! Employ me in that for which You created me. Do not occupy me with what You have guaranteed for me of provision, filling my heart with it. You have already taken upon Yourself to provide for me, so do not deprive me while I ask You, and do not punish me while I seek Your forgiveness. O Allah! Employ me in that for which You created me. Do not occupy me with what You have guaranteed for me of provision, filling my heart with it. You have already taken upon Yourself to provide for me, so do not deprive me while I ask You, and do not punish me while I seek Your forgiveness.

O Allah! Send blessings and peace upon our master Muhammad and his household.

O Allah! By the honor of Your Beloved Muhammad Mustafa, we turn to You and love You. O our master Muhammad, we seek through you nearness to your Lord. O pure and noble Messenger, intercede for us with the Most Generous.

O Allah! By the rank he has with You, make him an intercessor for us. O Allah! By the rank he has with You, make him an intercessor for us. O Allah! By the rank he has with You, make him an intercessor for us.

O Allah! Make us among the best of those who send blessings and peace upon our Prophet, among the nearest to him, and among those who will meet him. Make us among his lovers, and among the dearest of those loved by him. Make us rejoice with him on the Day of Gathering.

Make him for us a guide in the Garden of Bliss, leading us in without toil, hardship or reckoning. Direct him toward us pleased with us while we hope for his intercession, and do not make him displeased with us.

O Allah! Forgive us, our parents, and all Muslims, their dead and their living. Our final prayer is: praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds. (Beginning of the fourth quarter)

I ask You. O Allah! O Allah! O Allah! O Living, O Self-Subsisting! O Possessor of Majesty and Generosity! There is no god but You; glory be to You. I have not fulfilled Your mighty commands and I have been among the wrongdoers.

O Allah! By the right of the Kursi and what it carries of Your magnificence, majesty, might, power and dominion; by Your pure hidden names that none of Your creation knows; and by Your name which, when You place it on the night, it darkens; when You place it on the day, it shines; when You place it on the heavens, they stand without pillars; when You place it on the earth, it is made firm; when You place it on the seas, their waters surge and overflow; when You place it on the springs, their waters gush; and when You place it upon the clouds, they pour down rain—I ask You.

I ask You by the names inscribed upon the forehead of our master Jibril (peace be upon him), and by the names written on the forehead of our master Israfil (peace be upon him), and by the names written on all the angels.

By the names written around the Throne and the Kursi, I ask You.

By Your supreme name with which You have named Your own exalted Essence, I ask You.

By all of Your names, those I know and those I do not know.

O Allah! I ask You by the names with which our master Adam (peace be upon him) called upon You, and by the names with which our master Noah (peace be upon him) called upon You. I ask You by the names with which our master Salih called upon You; by the names with which our master Yunus (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Moses (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Harun (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Shu'ayb (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Abraham (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Ishmael (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master David (peace be upon him) called upon You. I ask You by the names with which our master Solomon (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Zachariah (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Joshua (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Khidr (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Elias (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Elisha (peace be upon him) called upon You; by the names with which our master Dhu'l-Kifl (peace be upon him) called upon You. I ask You by the names with which our master Jesus (peace be upon him) called upon You; and by the names with which Your Prophet, Your Messenger, Your Beloved, whom You chose from among mankind—our master Muhammad—called upon You. O You whose word is true, who said: “Allah created you and what you do.” Nothing is uttered or done or any motion or stillness occurs from any of Your servants except as it comes to pass exactly as in Your knowledge, decree and preordainment.

O Allah! O Allah! O Allah! I ask You to grant everyone who follows our Prophet and loves him, on the Day of Reckoning, provision of his intercession and companionship without scrutiny of faults, without punishment, without rebuke or rejection. O Bestower, O Oft-Forgiving, I ask You to forgive my sins and conceal my faults. On the Day when rewards are given without measure, I ask You, among all dear friends, to bless me with gazing upon Your lofty Beauty, to accept my deeds, and to pardon all my mistakes—those I committed knowingly or unknowingly or in error—which You know by Your eternal knowledge. I ask You to grant me my greatest wish: to reach the visit of the grave of our Prophet (peace be upon him) and to greet him and his two companions, by Your bounty, grace, generosity and kindness. O Most Kind, O Most Merciful, O Protecting Friend! On behalf of myself and all the believing men and women and all the Muslim men and women, their families and their living and their offspring, I ask You to reward our master Muhammad with the greatest, most virtuous and most comprehensive reward You grant to any of Your creation. O Mighty, O Noble, O All-Knowing!

O Allah! By the things upon which I swore to the majesty of Your Essence—before the sky was built, the earth spread, the mountains raised, the springs gushed forth, the seas were calmed, the rivers surged, the sun rose, the moon shone, and the stars lit the darkness—I ask You to send a blessing upon our master Muhammad and his household in a manner known only to You.

I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household by the number of Your words.

I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household by the number of the verses and letters of the Qur'an.

I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household by the number of those who recite blessings upon him.

I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household by the number of those who do not recite blessings upon him.

I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household to the fill of the earth.

I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household by the measure of what the Pen wrote in the Preserved Tablet regarding destiny.

I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household by the number of what You created in the seven heavens.

I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household by the measure of what You will create until the Day of Resurrection—each day a thousand times.

I ask You to send blessings upon our master Muhammad and his household, from the day You created the world until the Day of Resurrection, by the number of raindrops falling from the sky to the earth—each day a thousand times.