Saturday Dua (4th Imam)

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Bismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm

In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ كَلِمَةِ ٱلْمُعْتَصِمِينَ

Bismi-llāhi kalimati l-muʿtaṣimīn

“In the name of Allah,” the word of those who hold fast to Him

وَمَقَالَةِ ٱلْمُتَحَرِّزِينَ

Wa maqālati l-mutaḥarrizīn

The speech of those who seek His protection

وَ أَعُوذُ بِٱللَّهِ تَعَالَىٰ مِنْ جَوْرِ ٱلْجَائِرِينَ

Wa aʿūdhu bi-llāhi taʿālā min jawri l-jā’irīn

I seek refuge in Allah, high exalted is He, from the injustice of the unjust

وَكَيْدِ ٱلْحَاسِدِينَ

Wa kaydi l-ḥāsidīn

The trickery of the enviers

وَبَغْيِ ٱلظَّالِمِينَ

Wa baghyi ẓ-ẓālimīn

And the oppression of the wrongdoers

وَ أَحْمَدُهُ فَوْقَ حَمْدِ ٱلْحَامِدِينَ

Wa aḥmaduhu fawqa ḥamdi l-ḥāmidīn

And I praise Him beyond the praise of the praisers

اَللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ ٱلْوَاحِدُ بِلا شَرِيكٍ

Allāhumma anta l-wāḥidu bilā sharīk

O Allah, You are the One without partner

وَٱلْمَلِكُ بِلا تَمْلِيكٍ

Wa-l-maliku bilā tamlīk

And the King without having been made sovereign

لاَ تُضَادُّ فِي حُكْمِكَ

Lā tuḍāddu fī ḥukmik

No one opposes You in Your decree

وَلاَ تُنَازَعُ فِي مُلْكِكَ

Wa lā tunāzaʿu fī mulkik

And no one contests You in Your kingdom

أَسْأَلُكَ أَنْ تُصَلِّيَ عَلَىٰ مُحَمَّدٍ

As’aluka an tuṣalliya ʿalā Muḥammad

I beseech You to bless Muhammad

عَبْدِكَ وَرَسُولِكَ

ʿAbdika wa rasūlik

Your servant and Your messenger

وَأَنْ تُوْزِعَنِي مِنْ شُكْرِ نَعْمَاكَ

Wa an tūziʿanī min shukri naʿmāk

And inspire me with a thanksgiving for Your favors

مَا تَبْلُغُ بِي غَايَةَ رِضَاكَ

Mā tablughu bī ghāyata riḍāk

That takes me to the utmost limit of Your good pleasure

وَأَنْ تُعِينَنِي عَلَىٰ طَاعَتِكَ

Wa an tuʿīnanī ʿalā ṭāʿatik

And help me to obey You

وَلُزُومِ عِبَادَتِكَ

Wa luzūmi ʿibādatik

And to hold fast to worshiping You

وَٱسْتِحْقَاقِ مَثُوبَتِكَ

Wa-stiḥqāqi mathūbatik

And to deserve Your reward

بِلُطْفِ عِنَايَتِكَ

Bilutfi ʿināyatik

Through the gentleness of Your solicitude

وَتَرْحَمَنِي وَتَصُدَّنِي عَنْ مَعَاصِيكَ مَا أَحْيَيْتَنِي

Wa tarḥamanī wa taṣuddanī ʿan maʿāṣīka mā aḥyaytanī

And have mercy upon me, and bar me from acts of disobedience to You as long as You keep me alive

وَتُوَفِّقَنِي لِمَا يَنْفَعُنِي مَا أَبْقَيْتَنِي

Wa tuwaffiqanī limā yanfaʿunī mā abqaytanī

And give me success in what profits me as long as You spare me

وَأَنْ تَشْرَحَ بِكِتَابِكَ صَدْرِي

Wa an tashraḥa bikitābika ṣadrī

And expand my breast through Your Book

وَتَحُطَّ بِتِلاوَتِهِ وِزْرِي

Wa taḥuṭṭa bitilāwatihi wizrī

And lessen my burden through its recitation

وَتَمْنَحَنِي ٱلسَّلامَةَ فِي دِينِي وَنَفْسِي

Wa tamnaḥanī s-salāmata fī dīnī wa nafsī

And bestow upon me health in my religion and my soul

وَلاَ تُوحِشْ بِي أَهلَ أُنْسِي

Wa lā tūḥish bī ahla unsī

And estrange not my intimates from me

وَتُتِمَّ إِحْسَانَكَ فِيمَا بَقِيَ مِنْ عُمُرِي

Wa tutimma iḥsānaka fīmā baqiya min ʿumrī

And complete Your beneficence in what is left of my lifetime

كَمَا أَحْسَنْتَ فِيمَا مَضَىٰ مِنْهُ

Kamā aḥsanta fīmā maḍā minhu

Just as You have shown beneficence in that of it which has passed

يَا ارْحَمَ ٱلرَّاحِمِينَ

Yā arḥama r-rāḥimīn

O Most Merciful of all those who show mercy