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SUPPLICATION OF IMAM ALI (A.S.) AFTER OBLIGATORY PRAYERS

NARRATED FROM IMAM MAHDI (A.S.)

Abu Naeem Ansari says: Then that young man stood up and joined the circumambulators; we stood up because of him and forgot to ask him his name.

            On the next day, at the same time, he came towards us after circumambulation; we stood up just like the previous day. He sat between us and after looking towards his right and left, said:

  أَللَّهُمَّ إِلَيْكَ رُفِعَتِ الْأَصْواتُ ، [وَدُعِيَتِ الدَّعَواتُ]  ، وَلَكَ عَنَتِ الْوُجُوهُ ، وَلَكَ خَضَعَتِ الرِّقابُ ، وَإِلَيْكَ التَّحاكُمُ فِي الْأَعْمالِ ، يا خَيْرَ مَسْؤُولٍ وَخَيْرَ مَنْ أَعْطى ، يا صادِقُ يا بارِئُ ، يا مَنْ لايُخْلِفُ الْميعادَ ، يا مَنْ أَمَرَ بِالدُّعاءِ وَتَكَفَّلَ بِالْإِجابَةِ .

    يا مَنْ قالَ «اُدْعُوني أَسْتَجِبْ لَكُمْ » ، يا مَنْ قالَ «وَ إِذا سَأَلَكَ عِبادي عَنّي فَإِنّي قَريبٌ اُجيبُ دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِ إِذا دَعانِ فَلْيَسْتَجيبُوا لي وَلْيُؤْمِنُوا بي لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْشُدُونَ» ، يا مَنْ قالَ «يا عِبادِيَ الَّذينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلى أَنْفُسِهِمْ لاتَقْنَطُوا مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَميعاً إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحيمُ»

“O’ Allah! The voices elevate towards You, (and the supplications are supplicated) and faces bow down only before You, and the necks bend for You, and towards You is the judgment of the deeds, O’ best among those who are asked and the best among the Bestowers, O’ Truthful! O’ Inventor! O’ He who does not act against His Promise, O’ He who commanded for supplication and took the responsibility of acceptance, O’ He who said: (Call upon Me, I will respond to You)^[1], O’ He who said: (And when My servants ask you, concerning Me – indeed I am near. I respond to the invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. So let them respond to Me (by obedience) and believe in Me that they may be (rightly) guided)^[2], O’ He who said: (Say, O’ My Servants who have transgressed against themselves, do not despair of the Mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful)^[3].[4]

It has arrived in the book ‘Bihar ul Anwaar’ (the continuation of this supplication is the following):

لَبَّيْكَ وَسَعْدَيْكَ ، ها أَنَا ذا بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ ، اَلْمُسْرِفُ عَلى نَفْسي ، وَأَنْتَ الْقائِلُ « لاتَقْنَطُوا مِنْ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَميعاً» .

“We heard Your Invitation and are responding to it, this is me standing before You, the one who has transgressed against himself, while You Said: {do not despair of the Mercy of Allah. Indeed, Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful}.[5]