O Allah, Praise
be to You, there is no god but You, Lord and Heir of everything You have
created!
O
Lord of all lords highly Exalted!
O
Allāh, Who is praised in everything He does!
You
Are indeed Merciful and Compassionate to everything!
You
are the Everlasting while nothing alive needs to sustain Your domain!
O You Sustainer of everything from Whose
knowledge nothing escapes, nor keeping it tires You!
O
One Who remains when everything starts, then ceases to be!
O
You Who is Everlasting without an end, nor does Your domain ever ceases to be!
O
One Who is unlike any other!
O
You Who starts the creation of everything, Who has no peer, nor can anyone
truly describe Him!
O
Great One! No mind can ever grasp Your greatness!
O
Originator of everything without a peer, Unique!
O
Pure and Purifier of every ill through His sanctity!
O
You Who suffices everyone, Who gives His creation in abundance out of His
bounty!
O
Pure of any injustice which displeases Him, nor does injustice ever mingle with
His doings!
O
Compassionate One Whose mercy has encompassed everything!
O
Giver Whose bounty has overwhelmed all His creation!
O
One to Whom all servants owe everything, and through Whose power all are
subdued!
O
Creator of those in the heavens and those on earth, and to Whom all shall
return!
O
Helper of everyone who pleads to Him, everyone in distress, everyone who needs
to be helped, and the One Who can be relied on!\
Lord!
No tongues can ever do justice while attempting to describe the greatness and
dignity of Your domain!
O
Originator of everything that needs to be originated, without being in need of
Your creation to originate anything You please!
O
Knower of the unknown! Nothing that you safeguard can tire You!
O You Who shall repeat the creation after its
extinction, when the creation are raised again, responding to and fearing Him!
O Clement One, Patient! Nothing in Your
creation may be compared to You!
O
You Whose deeds are praised, Who is ever-giving to His creation out of His
Grace!
O
Gracious One Who has nothing in existence to compare to Him!
O
Vanquisher Whose Might is devastating, Whose revenge is unbearable!
O
Lofty One Who is near despite His Loftiness!
O
Powerful One Who makes everything easy through the might of His domain!
O
You, Light of Everything! Your Light dispels every darkness!
O
Holy and Pure One! There is nothing like You!
O
near One Whose nearness is nearer than everything else!
O
Sublime One in the heavens Whose loftiness is more sublime than anything else!
O
Originator of everything! You repeat the creation of things even after their
extinction through Your might!
O
Great One Who is above everything! Justice is Your command; true is Your
promise!
O
Glorified One Whose Glory no minds can ever conceive!
O
Generous One when Forgiving, Just! Your Justice has filled everything!
O
Great One worthy of all the best praise and glory! Your Greatness never
humiliates!
O
Wonderful One! All tongues can never count Your Signs or utter the praise due
to You! I pray You, on Whom I rely in every distress and with Whom I seek
refuge in every calamity, by the greatness of these Attributes to grant me a
security against the penalties of this life and the life to come, and I ask You
to shun through them everything evil and everything I dread, and to divert the
eyes of those wrong-doers who wish to inflict on me the wrong which You have
prohibited of the evil of what they hide and change it into the goodness which
they do not have and which none has other than You!
O
Glorious One! Do not let me, Lord, rely on my own self so I become unable to
bear it, nor on people so they might inflict harm on me! I pray You not to
disappoint me while I have set my hopes on You, and do not torment me while I
have invoked You! Lord! I plead to You as You have enjoined me to plead; so,
answer my plea as You have promised! Fill my life-span with goodness and my
fate too, and do not change the soundness of my body nor let my luck fail! I
invoke You not to change my friend into a foe, and I seek refuge with You
against all deadly illnesses, against poverty, humiliation, and bad company!
Lord! Divert my heart from anything which does not benefit me on my journey to
You, nor do I benefit from it on the Day when I meet You, be it permissible or
prohibited, and grant me the ability to shun it and despise it seeking Your
pleasure in its regard!
O
You Who Has mercy more than all those who are merciful! Lord! Praise is due to
You for all Your generous gifts, and praise is due to You for all Your
successive boons whereby You shielded me against evil consequences, and my
deeds did not dissuade You from forgiving me, and You protected me and endeared
to me the blessings with which You have blessed me and even continued to grant
me out of Your generosity and forgiven the ugly sins I have revealed to You
which I have committed! Lord! I pray You in every Attribute which is Yours and
which obliges You to answer the plea when invoked! I pray You in the right of
everyone who has a right with You of those who are Your servants to send
blessings unto Muhammad, Your servant and Messenger, and unto his progeny, and
to effect evil against anyone who plots evil schemes against me, to take away
his hearing and sight from before him, from behind him, from his right side and
from his left, and to keep him away from me through Your Might!
O
You with Whom there is no other god to call on!
O You besides Whom there is no creator to be
feared!
And
O You besides Whom there is no other god to be feared, nor a vizier to be
approached, nor a care-taker to be bribed, nor a door-man to be called on!
O
You Who does not topple His generosity of giving except by giving even more,
nor does He follow up His forgiveness of the sins except with more forgiveness!
I pray You, Lord, to send blessings unto Muhammad and the progeny of Muhammad
and to deal with me in a way worthy of You, for You are worthy of all piety and
of forgiving. Lord! This is my plea, and from You do I seek the favor of a
favorable response. This is my endeavor and on You do I rely; and there is no
power nor might except in Allāh, the Sublime, the Great. Amen!
Note this du’a has forty of
Allah’s (SWT) attributes! After reciting this du’a say your personal du’a and
say Amen after your du’a! Compiled by: Imam Akmal M. Muhammad
