Text:Al-Sha'baniyya Supplication

In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.	بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّ‌حْمَـٰنِ الرَّ‌حِيمِ
O Allah, bless Muhammad and his family, and hear my supplication when I supplicate to You, and hear my call when I call You, and turn to me when I whisper to You; because I had escaped to You and I stand before You, in need to You, imploring You, hoping the reward You have for me; and You know what is in my heart, and You are aware of my wish, and You know me; and my route and my destination, and what I want to start my speech with, and what I want to utter my requests, and what I hope for my destination, are not hidden to You.	اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ اسْمَعْ دُعَائِي إِذَا دَعَوْتُكَ وَ اسْمَعْ نِدَائِي إِذَا نَادَيْتُكَ وَ أَقْبِلْ عَلَيَّ إِذَا نَاجَيْتُكَ فَقَدْ هَرَبْتُ إِلَيْكَ وَ وَقَفْتُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ مُسْتَكِينا لَكَ مُتَضَرِّعا إِلَيْكَ رَاجِيا لِمَا لَدَيْكَ ثَوَابِي وَ تَعْلَمُ مَا فِي نَفْسِي وَ تَخْبُرُ حَاجَتِي وَ تَعْرِفُ ضَمِيرِي وَ لا يَخْفَى عَلَيْكَ أَمْرُ مُنْقَلَبِي وَ مَثْوَايَ وَ مَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ أُبْدِئَ بِهِ مِنْ مَنْطِقِي وَ أَتَفَوَّهَ بِهِ مِنْ طَلِبَتِي وَ أَرْجُوهُ لِعَاقِبَتِي،
And O my master, Your decisions about what will be on me, till the end of my life, my hidden and my public, are applied to me. And my gain and my loss, and my advantage and my disadvantage are in Your hand, not in hand of anyone other than You. O my God, if You deprive me, then who will provide sustenance to me? And if You forsake me, then who will help me? O my God, I seek Your protection from Your anger and the arrival of Your wrath. O my God, if I was not befitting Your mercy, but You befit to endow me with Your vast munificence. O my God, it's like I am standing before You, shaded by my complete reliance on You, then You said what is befitting You, and covered me with Your forgiveness. O my God, if You forgive, then who is better suited than You to that?	وَ قَدْ جَرَتْ مَقَادِيرُكَ عَلَيَّ يَا سَيِّدِي فِيمَا يَكُونُ مِنِّي إِلَى آخِرِ عُمْرِي مِنْ سَرِيرَتِي وَ عَلانِيَتِي وَ بِيَدِكَ لا بِيَدِ غَيْرِكَ زِيَادَتِي وَ نَقْصِي وَ نَفْعِي وَ ضَرِّي إِلَهِي إِنْ حَرَمْتَنِي فَمَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يَرْزُقُنِي وَ إِنْ خَذَلْتَنِي فَمَنْ ذَا الَّذِي يَنْصُرُنِي. إِلَهِي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ غَضَبِكَ وَ حُلُولِ سَخَطِكَ إِلَهِي إِنْ كُنْتُ غَيْرَ مُسْتَأْهِلٍ لِرَحْمَتِكَ فَأَنْتَ أَهْلٌ أَنْ تَجُودَ عَلَيَّ بِفَضْلِ سَعَتِكَ إِلَهِي كَأَنِّي بِنَفْسِي وَاقِفَةٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ وَ قَدْ أَظَلَّهَا حُسْنُ تَوَكُّلِي عَلَيْكَ فَقُلْتَ مَا أَنْتَ أَهْلُهُ وَ تَغَمَّدْتَنِي بِعَفْوِكَ إِلَهِي إِنْ عَفَوْتَ فَمَنْ أَوْلَى مِنْكَ بِذَلِكَ
And if my time is close and my deeds haven't made me close to You, so I made the confession of sin my means toward You. O my God, I oppressed to my soul by my attention to it (that I let it do what it wants), so woe to it if You don't forgive it.	وَ إِنْ كَانَ قَدْ دَنَا أَجَلِي وَ لَمْ يُدْنِنِي مِنْكَ عَمَلِي فَقَدْ جَعَلْتُ الْإِقْرَارَ بِالذَّنْبِ إِلَيْكَ وَسِيلَتِي. إِلَهِي قَدْ جُرْتُ عَلَى نَفْسِي فِي النَّظَرِ لَهَا فَلَهَا الْوَيْلُ إِنْ لَمْ تَغْفِرْ لَهَا.
O my God, Your kindness to me never ceased in my lifetime, so don't discontinue Your kindness in my death. O my God, how I despair of Your good care of me after my death, when You did not guard me but beautifully in my life. O my God, guard my affairs as befits You and turn to me with Your munificence, to a sinner that his ignorance had drowned him. O my God, You have concealed sins for me in the world and I am in more need for its conceal by You for me in the other world; when You don't reveal them for anyone of Your righteous servants, so don't disgrace me in the day of resurrection in the presence of the leaders of the witnesses.	إِلَهِي لَمْ يَزَلْ بِرُّكَ عَلَيَّ أَيَّامَ حَيَاتِي فَلا تَقْطَعْ بِرَّكَ عَنِّي فِي مَمَاتِي إِلَهِي كَيْفَ آيَسُ مِنْ حُسْنِ نَظَرِكَ لِي بَعْدَ مَمَاتِي وَ أَنْتَ لَمْ تُوَلِّنِي إِلا الْجَمِيلَ فِي حَيَاتِي. إِلَهِي تَوَلَّ مِنْ أَمْرِي مَا أَنْتَ أَهْلُهُ وَ عُدْ عَلَيَّ بِفَضْلِكَ عَلَى مُذْنِبٍ قَدْ غَمَرَهُ جَهْلُهُ إِلَهِي قَدْ سَتَرْتَ عَلَيَّ ذُنُوبا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَ أَنَا أَحْوَجُ إِلَى سَتْرِهَا عَلَيَّ مِنْكَ فِي الْأُخْرَى إِذْ لَمْ تُظْهِرْهَا لِأَحَدٍ مِنْ عِبَادِكَ الصَّالِحِينَ فَلا تَفْضَحْنِي يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عَلَى رُءُوسِ الْأَشْهَادِ.
O my God, Your endowment extended my wishes, and Your forgiveness is better than my deeds. O my God, so delight me with Your encounter, in the day in which You will judge between Your servants. O my God, my excuse to You, is the excuse of the one who is not needless of the acceptance of his excuse, so accept my excuse, O the most munificent one whom the sinners excuse to. O my God, don't reject my wish, and don't disappoint my request, and don't cut my hope and asking from Yourself.	إِلَهِي جُودُكَ بَسَطَ أَمَلِي وَ عَفْوُكَ أَفْضَلُ مِنْ عَمَلِي إِلَهِي فَسُرَّنِي بِلِقَائِكَ يَوْمَ تَقْضِي فِيهِ بَيْنَ عِبَادِكَ إِلَهِي اعْتِذَارِي إِلَيْكَ اعْتِذَارُ مَنْ لَمْ يَسْتَغْنِ عَنْ قَبُولِ عُذْرِهِ فَاقْبَلْ عُذْرِي يَا أَكْرَمَ مَنِ اعْتَذَرَ إِلَيْهِ الْمُسِيئُونَ . إِلَهِي لا تَرُدَّ حَاجَتِي وَ لا تُخَيِّبْ طَمَعِي وَ لا تَقْطَعْ مِنْكَ رَجَائِي وَ أَمَلِي.
O my God, if You wanted my shame, You wouldn't guide me, and if You wanted my disgrace You wouldn't secure me. O my God, I don't believe You will disappoint me in a request that I spent my life requesting it from You. O my God, so the praise is for You permanently, permanently, perpetually, eternally, growing and not diminishing, as You like and please.	إِلَهِي لَوْ أَرَدْتَ هَوَانِي لَمْ تَهْدِنِي وَ لَوْ أَرَدْتَ فَضِيحَتِي لَمْ تُعَافِنِي إِلَهِي مَا أَظُنُّكَ تَرُدُّنِي فِي حَاجَةٍ قَدْ أَفْنَيْتُ عُمُرِي فِي طَلَبِهَا مِنْكَ إِلَهِي فَلَكَ الْحَمْدُ أَبَدا أَبَدا دَائِما سَرْمَدا يَزِيدُ وَ لا يَبِيدُ كَمَا تُحِبُّ وَ تَرْضَى.
O my God, if You hold me because of my crimes, I hold to Your forgiveness; and if You hold me because of my sins, I hold to Your pardon, and if You enter me to the fire I will inform its inmates that I love You. O my God, if my deeds are little compared to Your true obedience, but my wish is great compared to the true hope for You. O my God, how I return disappointed from Your presence, deprived, while my good thought about Your endowment was that You will return me with salvation, forgiven.	إِلَهِي إِنْ أَخَذْتَنِي بِجُرْمِي أَخَذْتُكَ بِعَفْوِكَ وَ إِنْ أَخَذْتَنِي بِذُنُوبِي أَخَذْتُكَ بِمَغْفِرَتِكَ وَ إِنْ أَدْخَلْتَنِي النَّارَ أَعْلَمْتُ أَهْلَهَا أَنِّي أُحِبُّكَ إِلَهِي إِنْ كَانَ صَغُرَ فِي جَنْبِ طَاعَتِكَ عَمَلِي فَقَدْ كَبُرَ فِي جَنْبِ رَجَائِكَ أَمَلِي إِلَهِي كَيْفَ أَنْقَلِبُ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ بِالْخَيْبَةِ مَحْرُوما وَ قَدْ كَانَ حُسْنُ ظَنِّي بِجُودِكَ أَنْ تَقْلِبَنِي بِالنَّجَاةِ مَرْحُوما.
O my God, I spent my life in the greed of neglecting You, and decayed my youth in the drunkenness of divergence from You. Then, O my God, I don't wake up in the days of my dare against You and my going in the way of Your anger.	إِلَهِي وَ قَدْ أَفْنَيْتُ عُمُرِي فِي شِرَّةِ السَّهْوِ عَنْكَ وَ أَبْلَيْتُ شَبَابِي فِي سَكْرَةِ التَّبَاعُدِ مِنْكَ إِلَهِي فَلَمْ أَسْتَيْقِظْ أَيَّامَ اغْتِرَارِي بِكَ وَ رُكُونِي إِلَى سَبِيلِ سَخَطِكَ.
O my God, I am Your servant and the child of Your servant, standing in front of You, relying on Your munificence to You. O my God, I am a servant dissociating to You from what I have been confronting You because of my low shame from Your vision, and I request Your forgiveness because forgiveness is a description of Your munificence.	إِلَهِي وَ أَنَا عَبْدُكَ وَ ابْنُ عَبْدِكَ قَائِمٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ مُتَوَسِّلٌ بِكَرَمِكَ إِلَيْكَ إِلَهِي أَنَا عَبْدٌ أَتَنَصَّلُ إِلَيْكَ مِمَّا كُنْتُ أُوَاجِهُكَ بِهِ مِنْ قِلَّةِ اسْتِحْيَائِي مِنْ نَظَرِكَ وَ أَطْلُبُ الْعَفْوَ مِنْكَ إِذِ الْعَفْوُ نَعْتٌ لِكَرَمِكَ.
O my God, I don't have the strength to move from disobeying You, except when You woke me up to Your love, and I was as You wanted me to be, then I thanked You for entering me to Your munificence, and purifying my hearth from the filth of neglecting You.	إِلَهِي لَمْ يَكُنْ لِي حَوْلٌ فَأَنْتَقِلَ بِهِ عَنْ مَعْصِيَتِكَ إِلا فِي وَقْتٍ أَيْقَظْتَنِي لِمَحَبَّتِكَ وَ كَمَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ أَكُونَ كُنْتُ فَشَكَرْتُكَ بِإِدْخَالِي فِي كَرَمِكَ وَ لِتَطْهِيرِ قَلْبِي مِنْ أَوْسَاخِ الْغَفْلَةِ عَنْكَ.
O my God, look upon me the looking upon whom You called him and he answered You, and appointed him with Your help and he obeyed You. O the near one who doesn't avoid the daring against him, and O the generous who is not stingy with the one who hopes his reward. O my God, grant me a heart which its passion approaches it to You; and a tongue which truth is raised to You; and a vision which rightfulness brings it near You.	إِلَهِي انْظُرْ إِلَيَّ نَظَرَ مَنْ نَادَيْتَهُ فَأَجَابَكَ وَ اسْتَعْمَلْتَهُ بِمَعُونَتِكَ فَأَطَاعَكَ يَا قَرِيبا لا يَبْعُدُ عَنِ الْمُغْتَرِّ بِهِ وَ يَا جَوَادا لا يَبْخَلُ عَمَّنْ رَجَا ثَوَابَهُ إِلَهِي هَبْ لِي قَلْبا يُدْنِيهِ مِنْكَ شَوْقُهُ وَ لِسَانا يُرْفَعُ إِلَيْكَ صِدْقُهُ وَ نَظَرا يُقَرِّبُهُ مِنْكَ حَقُّهُ.
O my God, the one who is known by You is not unknown, and the one who seeks Your shelter is not forsaken, and the one who You turn to, is not a slave. O my God, indeed the one who seeks way by You is enlightened, and indeed the one who holds fast to You is assisted. And I have took Your shelter, O my God, so don't disappoint my hope from Your mercy and don't ban me from Your kindness.	إِلَهِي إِنَّ مَنْ تَعَرَّفَ بِكَ غَيْرُ مَجْهُولٍ وَ مَنْ لاذَ بِكَ غَيْرُ مَخْذُولٍ وَ مَنْ أَقْبَلْتَ عَلَيْهِ غَيْرُ مَمْلُوكٍ، إِلَهِي إِنَّ مَنِ انْتَهَجَ بِكَ لَمُسْتَنِيرٌ وَ إِنَّ مَنِ اعْتَصَمَ بِكَ لَمُسْتَجِيرٌ وَ قَدْ لُذْتُ بِكَ يَا إِلَهِي فَلا تُخَيِّبْ ظَنِّي مِنْ رَحْمَتِكَ وَ لا تَحْجُبْنِي عَنْ رَأْفَتِكَ.
O my God, place me, among Your loyal people, in the position of someone who hopes for the excess of Your love. And, O my God, inspire me the passion to Your remembrance with Your remembrance, and put my effort in the happiness of achieving Your attributes, and Your holy place. O my God, I invoke You by Yourself that You join me to the place of the people obedient to You, and to the nice abode of Your pleasure, because I can neither defend nor I can benefit myself.	إِلَهِي أَقِمْنِي فِي أَهْلِ وَلايَتِكَ مُقَامَ مَنْ رَجَا الزِّيَادَةَ مِنْ مَحَبَّتِكَ إِلَهِي وَ أَلْهِمْنِي وَلَها بِذِكْرِكَ إِلَى ذِكْرِكَ وَ هِمَّتِي فِي رَوْحِ نَجَاحِ أَسْمَائِكَ وَ مَحَلِّ قُدْسِكَ إِلَهِي بِكَ عَلَيْكَ إِلا أَلْحَقْتَنِي بِمَحَلِّ أَهْلِ طَاعَتِكَ وَ الْمَثْوَى الصَّالِحِ مِنْ مَرْضَاتِكَ فَإِنِّي لا أَقْدِرُ لِنَفْسِي دَفْعا وَ لا أَمْلِكُ لَهَا نَفْعا.
O my God, I am Your weak sinner servant, and Your penitently returning slave, so don't make me one of whom You turned Your face against, and their oblivion banned them from Your forgiveness. O my God, grant me the perfect separation (from everything) towards You, and illuminate the eyes of our hearts with the light of their looking at You, till the eyes of the hearts rip the veils of light, and reach the core of magnificence, and our souls become suspended in the majesty of Your holiness; and O my God, make me one of whom You called and he answered You, and You noted him and he thunderstruck by Your majesty, then You whispered to them secretly and they worked for You openly.	إِلَهِي أَنَا عَبْدُكَ الضَّعِيفُ الْمُذْنِبُ وَ مَمْلُوكُكَ الْمُنِيبُ فَلا تَجْعَلْنِي مِمَّنْ صَرَفْتَ عَنْهُ وَجْهَكَ وَ حَجَبَهُ سَهْوُهُ عَنْ عَفْوِكَ إِلَهِي هَبْ لِي كَمَالَ الانْقِطَاعِ إِلَيْكَ وَ أَنِرْ أَبْصَارَ قُلُوبِنَا بِضِيَاءِ نَظَرِهَا إِلَيْكَ حَتَّى تَخْرِقَ أَبْصَارُ الْقُلُوبِ حُجُبَ النُّورِ فَتَصِلَ إِلَى مَعْدِنِ الْعَظَمَةِ وَ تَصِيرَ أَرْوَاحُنَا مُعَلَّقَةً بِعِزِّ قُدْسِكَ إِلَهِي وَ اجْعَلْنِي مِمَّنْ نَادَيْتَهُ فَأَجَابَكَ وَ لاحَظْتَهُ فَصَعِقَ لِجَلالِكَ فَنَاجَيْتَهُ سِرّا وَ عَمِلَ لَكَ جَهْرا.
O my God, I have not dominated the disappointment of despairs over my good thought and my hope haven't been cut from Your beautiful munificence. O my God, if the sins have lowered me before You, but forgive me for my nice reliance on You. O my God, if my faults have reduced me from the beauties of Your attention, but the certainty to the munificence of Your favor, have wakened me. O my God, if the negligence have made me oblivious of the preparation for Your encounter, but the knowledge about the munificence of Your bounties, have wakened me. O my God, if Your great punishment invites me to the fire, but Your sincere reward have invited me to the paradise.	إِلَهِي لَمْ أُسَلِّطْ عَلَى حُسْنِ ظَنِّي قُنُوطَ الْإِيَاسِ وَ لا انْقَطَعَ رَجَائِي مِنْ جَمِيلِ كَرَمِكَ إِلَهِي إِنْ كَانَتِ الْخَطَايَا قَدْ أَسْقَطَتْنِي لَدَيْكَ فَاصْفَحْ عَنِّي بِحُسْنِ تَوَكُّلِي عَلَيْكَ إِلَهِي إِنْ حَطَّتْنِي الذُّنُوبُ مِنْ مَكَارِمِ لُطْفِكَ فَقَدْ نَبَّهَنِي الْيَقِينُ إِلَى كَرَمِ عَطْفِكَ إِلَهِي إِنْ أَنَامَتْنِي الْغَفْلَةُ عَنِ الاسْتِعْدَادِ لِلِقَائِكَ فَقَدْ نَبَّهَتْنِي الْمَعْرِفَةُ بِكَرَمِ آلائِكَ إِلَهِي إِنْ دَعَانِي إِلَى النَّارِ عَظِيمُ عِقَابِكَ فَقَدْ دَعَانِي إِلَى الْجَنَّةِ جَزِيلُ ثَوَابِكَ
O my God, so I ask You, and pray to You, and turn to You, and I ask You to bless Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, and that You make me one of who continues Your remembrance, and who do not break Your covenant, and who do not neglect Your thanking, and who do not belittle Your order. And, O my God, attach me to the most delight majesty of Yours, so I know You, and perverse from everything other than You, and I be fearful of You, and be attentive to You, O the owner of the majesty and munificence; and may Allah bless Muhammad, His Prophet and his pure family and greets them, a great greeting.	إِلَهِي فَلَكَ أَسْأَلُ وَ إِلَيْكَ أَبْتَهِلُ وَ أَرْغَبُ وَ أَسْأَلُكَ أَنْ تُصَلِّيَ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَ أَنْ تَجْعَلَنِي مِمَّنْ يُدِيمُ ذِكْرَكَ وَ لا يَنْقُضُ عَهْدَكَ وَ لا يَغْفُلُ عَنْ شُكْرِكَ وَ لا يَسْتَخِفُّ بِأَمْرِكَ إِلَهِي وَ أَلْحِقْنِي بِنُورِ عِزِّكَ الْأَبْهَجِ فَأَكُونَ لَكَ عَارِفا وَ عَنْ سِوَاكَ مُنْحَرِفا وَ مِنْكَ خَائِفا مُرَاقِبا يَا ذَا الْجَلالِ وَ الْإِكْرَامِ وَ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِهِ وَ آلِهِ الطَّاهِرِينَ وَ سَلَّمَ تَسْلِيما كَثِيرا.