Forty-sixth Supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya
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Subject | Du'a on the day of Eid al-Fitr and Friday |
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Hadith-Based/Non-Hadith-Based | Hadith-Based |
Issued by | Imam al-Sajjad (a) |
Narrator | Mutawakkil b. Harun |
Shi'a sources | Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya |
Time | After the Eid al-Fitr prayer and on Friday |
The forty-sixth supplication of al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya (Arabic: الدعاء السادس والأربعون من الصحيفة السجادية) is a supplication transmitted from Imam al-Sajjad (a), which he recited after Eid al-Fitr prayers and on Fridays. In this supplication, the Imam (a) acknowledges all divine blessings bestowed upon the servants, seeking divine mercy in different ways.
The forty-sixth supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya is expounded in such commentaries as Diyar-i ashiqan by Husayn Ansarian, Shuhud wa shinakht by Mamduhi Kirmanshahi and Sahba-yi hudur by Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi in Persian and in Riyad al-salikin by Sayyid Ali Khan al-Madani and some other books in Arabic.
Doctrines
The forty-sixth supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya is a supplication recited by Imam al-Sajjad (a) after Eid al-Fitr prayers and on Fridays. These are the days honored and respected by Muslims with respect to God's grace towards His servants. Thus, in this supplication, Imam Zayn al-'Abidin (a) seeks the divine grace in different wordings.[1]
Here are the doctrines referred to in this supplication:
- Acknowledgement of God's mercy and kindness
- Servants not being disappointed of God
- The insignificance of beings in comparison to God's infinite existence
- God's admission of helpless human beings
- God's acceptance of His servants' insignificant deeds by giving them precious rewards
- God's refusal to haste in punishing His servants
- Honoring those in need
- God's responsiveness to His servants and the sinful
- God's invitation of His sinful servants to His sanctuary
- The wide realm of the divine governance
- God as the nurturer of the good and the obliterator of the bad
- The human free will as the ground for the divine test and the order of reward-giving
- Disappointment, loss, and destitution as repercussions of neglecting God
- The openness of the gates of the divine mercy
- The hope for the divine refuge
- God's giving time to and tolerating the sinful
- The stable constant dominion and kingdom of God
- The justice of the divine punishment
- The human failure to describe and thank the divine blessings
- Prayers for a good fate
- The necessity of repentance on the earliest occasion.[2]
Commentaries
In the commentaries of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, such as Riyad al-salikin by Sayyid Ali Khan al-Madani,[3], Fi zilal al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya by Muhammad Jawad Mughniya,[4] Riyad al-'arifin by Muhammad b. Muhammad al-Darabi,[5] Afaq al-ruh by Muhammad Husayn Fadl Allah,[6] the forty-sixth supplication is explicated. The words used in the supplication is also elucidated in lexical commentaries such as Fayd Kashani's Ta'liqat 'ala l-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya[7] and 'Izz al-Din al-Jaza'iri's Sharh al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya[8]
The forty-sixth supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya is expounded in such commentaries as Diyar-i ashiqan by Husayn Ansarian,[9] Shuhud wa shinakht by Muhammad Hasan Mamduhi Kirmanshahi,[10] Sharh wa tarjumi-yi Sahifi-yi Sajjadiyya by Sayyid Ahmad Fihri,[11] in Persian.
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Notes
- ↑ Mamdūḥī Kirmanshāhī, Shuhūd wa shinākht, vol. 4, p. 28.
- ↑ Mamdūḥī Kirmanshāhī, Shuhūd wa shinākht, vol. 7, p. 503-515; Mamdūḥī Kirmanshāhī, Shuhūd wa shinākht, vol. 4, p. 28-46; Commentary of 46th supplication of al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya, Irfan website (Persian)
- ↑ Madanī Shīrāzī, Rīyāḍ al-sālikīn, vol. 6, p. 199-252.
- ↑ Mughnīya, Fī zilāl al-Ṣaḥīfa, p. 539-549.
- ↑ Dārābī, Rīyāḍ al-ʿārifīn, p. 575-588.
- ↑ Faḍl Allāh, Āfāq al-rūḥ, vol. 2, p. 433-462.
- ↑ Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, Taʿlīqāt ʿalā l-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya, p. 91-92.
- ↑ Jazā'irī, Sharh al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya, p. 236-241.
- ↑ Anṣārīyān, Diyār-i āshiqān, vol. 7, p. 497-515.
- ↑ Mamdūḥī Kirmanshāhī, Shuhūd wa shinākht, vol. 4, p. 23-46.
- ↑ Fihrī, Sharḥ wa tarjuma-yi Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya, vol. 5, p. 345-364.
References
- Anṣārīyān, Ḥusayn. Dīyār-i Āshiqān: tafsīr-i jāmiʿ al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Tehran: Payām-i Āzādī, 1372 Sh.
- Dārābī, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad. Rīyāḍ al-ʿārifīn fī sharḥ al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Edited by Ḥusayn Dargāhī. Tehran: Nashr-i Uswa, 1379 Sh.
- Faḍl Allāh, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn. Āfāq al-rūḥ. Beirut: Dār al-Mālik, 1420 AH.
- Fihrī, Sayyid Aḥmad. Sharḥ wa tarjuma-yi Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Tehran: Nashr-i Uswa, 1388 Sh.
- Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, Muḥammad b. al-Murtaḍā al-. Taʿlīqāt ʿalā l-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Tehran: Muʾassisat al-Buḥūth wa l-Taḥqīqāt al-Thiqāfīyya, 1407 AH.
- Jazāʾirī, ʿIzz al-Dīn. Sharḥ al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Beirut: Dār al-Taʿāruf li-l-Maṭbūʿāt, 1402 AH.
- Madanī Shīrāzī, Sayyid ʿAlīkhān. Rīyāḍ al-sālikīn fī sharḥ al-Ṣaḥīfa Sayyid al-Sājjidīn. Qom: Muʾassisat al-Nashr al-Islāmī, 1435 AH.
- Mughnīya, Muḥammad Jawād al-. Fī zilāl al-Ṣaḥīfa al-Sajjādīyya. Qom: Dār al-Kitāb al-Islāmī, 1428 AH.
- Mamdūḥī Kirmanshāhī, Shuhūd wa shinākht; tarjuma wa sharḥ Ṣaḥīfa-yi Sajjādīyya. Qom: Būstān-i Kitāb, 1388 SH.