Supplication of Farewell to Ramadan (by Imam al-Sadiq (a))
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Subject | Farewell to the month of Ramadan |
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Hadith-Based/Non-Hadith-Based | Hadith-Based |
Issued by | Imam al-Sadiq (a) |
Narrator | Abu Basir |
Shi'a sources | Man la yahduruh al-faqih • Al-Kafi |
The supplication of farewell to Ramadan is a supplication cited from Imam al-Sadiq (a) by Abu Basir. The supplication is a goodbye to the Ramadan month. The Imam (a) asks God not make this the last farewell to the Ramadan month. Al-Shaykh al-Saduq cited the supplication in his Man la yahduruh al-faqih[1] and al-Kulayni cited it in his al-Kafi[2].
Content
- Ramadan is a month in which the Qur'an was revealed.
- Asking God to forgive one's sins before the Ramadan month ends.
- Asking God to make this Ramadan month the greatest with respect to blessings in protecting our piety and liberating our bodies and souls, meeting our needs, accepting intercessions (shafa'a) in our requests, completing bounties and removing evils from us.
- Laylat al-Qadr is superior to 1000 months.
- Asking God not to make our farewell to the Ramadan month our last farewell.
- Praising God outruns any descriptions.
Notes
References
- Kulaynī, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-. Al-Kāfī. Edited by ʿAlī Akbar Ghaffārī et. Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya, 1407 AH.
- Ṣadūq, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-. Man lā yaḥḍuruh al-faqīh. Edited by ʿAlī Akbar Ghaffārī. Qom: Intishārāt-i Islāmī, 1403 AH. 1413 AH.