| His Supplication when Someone's Death was Announced to him or when he Remembered Death
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(40) وَ كَانَ مِنْ دُعَائِهِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ إِذَا نُعِيَ إِلَيْهِ مَيِّتٌ ، أَوْ ذَكَرَ الْمَوْتَ
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| In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.
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بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ
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| 1- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household,
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1. اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِهِ ،
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| spare us drawn out expectations
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وَ اكْفِنَا طُولَ الْأَمَلِ ،
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| and cut them short in us through sincerity of works,
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وَ قَصِّرْهُ عَنَّا بِصِدْقِ الْعَمَلِ
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| that we may not hope expectantly for completing an hour after an hour,
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حَتَّى لَا نُؤَمِّلَ اسْتِتْمَامَ سَاعَةٍ بَعْدَ سَاعَةٍ ،
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| closing a day after a day,
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وَ لَا اسْتِيفَاءَ يَوْمٍ بَعْدَ يَوْمٍ ،
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| joining a breath to a breath,
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وَ لَا اتِّصَالَ نَفَسٍ بِنَفَسٍ ،
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| or overtaking a step with a step!
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وَ لَا لُحُوقَ قَدَمٍ بِقَدَمٍ
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| 2- Keep us safe from the delusions of expectations,
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2. وَ سَلِّمْنَا مِنْ غُرُورِهِ ،
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| make us secure from their evils,
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وَ آمِنَّا مِنْ شُرُورِهِ ،
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| set up death before us in display. and let not our remembering of it come and go!
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وَ انْصِبِ الْمَوْتَ بَيْنَ أَيْدِينَا نَصْباً ، وَ لَا تَجْعَلْ ذِكْرَنَا لَهُ غِبّاً
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| 3- Appoint for us from among the righteous works a work
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3. وَ اجْعَلْ لَنَا مِنْ صَالِحِ الْأَعْمَالِ عَمَلًا
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| through which we will feel the homecoming to Thee as slow
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نَسْتَبْطِئُ مَعَهُ الْمَصِيرَ إِلَيْكَ ،
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| and crave a quick joining with Thee,
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وَ نَحْرِصُ لَهُ عَلَى وَشْكِ اللَّحَاقِ بِكَ
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| so that death may be our intimate abode with which we are intimate,
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حَتَّى يَكُونَ الْمَوْتُ مَأْنَسَنَا الَّذِي نَأْنَسُ بِهِ ،
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| our familiar place toward which we yearn,
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وَ مَأْلَفَنَا الَّذِي نَشْتَاقُ إِلَيْهِ ،
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| and our next of kin whose coming we love!
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وَ حَامَّتَنَا الَّتِي نُحِبُّ الدُّنُوَّ مِنْهَا
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| 4- When Thou bringest it to us and sendest it down upon us,
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4. فَإِذَا أَوْرَدْتَهُ عَلَيْنَا وَ أَنْزَلْتَهُ بِنَا
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| make us happy with it as a visitor, comfort us with its arrival,
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فَأَسْعِدْنَا بِهِ زَائِراً ، وَ آنِسْنَا بِهِ قَادِماً ،
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| make us not wretched through entertaining it,
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وَ لَا تُشْقِنَا بِضِيَافَتِهِ ،
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| degrade us not through its visit,
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وَ لَا تُخْزِنَا بِزِيَارَتِهِ ،
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| and appoint it one of the gates to Thy forgiveness
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وَ اجْعَلْهُ بَاباً مِنْ أَبْوَابِ مَغْفِرَتِكَ ،
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| and the keys to Thy mercy!
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وَ مِفْتَاحاً مِنْ مَفَاتِيحِ رَحْمَتِكَ
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| 5- Make us die guided, not astray,
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5. أَمِتْنَا مُهْتَدِينَ غَيْرَ ضَالِّينَ ،
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| obedient, not averse,
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طَائِعِينَ غَيْرَ مُسْتَكْرِهِينَ ،
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| repentant, not disobedient or persisting,
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تَائِبِينَ غَيْرَ عَاصِينَ وَ لَا مُصِرِّينَ ،
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| O He who guarantees the repayment of the good-doers
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يَا ضَامِنَ جَزَاءِ الْمُحْسِنِينَ ،
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| and seeks to set right the work of the corrupt![1]
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وَ مُسْتَصْلِحَ عَمَلِ الْمُفْسِدِينَ .
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