Sahifa Sajjadiya 40: When Death Is Mentioned
The fortieth supplication of al-Sahifah al-Kamilah al-Sajjadiyyah: Imam Zayn al-Abidin (a.s.)'s supplication when someone's death was announced to him, or
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The fortieth supplication of al-Sahifah al-Kamilah al-Sajjadiyyah: Imam Zayn al-Abidin (a.s.)'s supplication when someone's death was announced to him, or when he remembered death.
English translation by William C. Chittick.
Text and Translation
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَآلِهٖ، وَاكْفِنَا طُولَ الْاَمَلِ، وَقَصِّرْهُ عَنَّا بِصِدْقِ الْعَمَلِ حَتَّى لَا نُؤَمِّلَ اسْتِتْمَامَ سَاعَةٍ بَعْدَ سَاعَةٍ، وَلَا اسْتِيفَاءَ يَوْمٍ بَعْدَ يَوْمٍ، وَلَا اتِّصَالَ نَفَسٍ بِنَفَسٍ، وَلَا لُحُوقَ قَدَمٍ بِقَدَمٍ
ALLAAHUMMA SALLI A'LAA MUHAMMADIN WA AALIHEE WAKFINAA TOOLAL AMALI WA QASSIRHU A'NNAA BISIDQIL A'MALI HATTAA LAA NU'AMMILAS TITMAAMA SAA'ATIN BA'DA SAA'ATIN WA LAS TEEFAA'A YAWMIN BA'DA YAWMIN WA LAT TISAALA NAFASIN BINAFASIN WA LAA LUHOOQA QADAMIN BIQADAM
O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, spare us drawn out expectations and cut them short in us through sincerity of works, that we may not hope expectantly for completing an hour after an hour, closing a day after a day, joining a breath to a breath, or overtaking a step with a step!
وَسَلِّمْنَا مِنْ غُرُورِهٖ، وَآمِنَّا مِنْ شُرُورِهٖ، وَانْصِبِ الْمَوْتَ بَيْنَ اَيْدِينَا نَصْباً، وَلَا تَجْعَلْ ذِكْرَنَا لَهٗ غِبّاً
WA SALLIMNAA MIN GHUROORIHEE WA AAMINNAA MIN SHUROORIHEE WANSIBIL MAWTA BAYNA AYDEENAA NASBAN WA LAA TAJ'AL DHIKRANAA LAHOO GHIBBAA
Keep us safe from the delusions of expectations, make us secure from their evils, set up death before us in display, and let not our remembering of it come and go!
وَاجْعَلْ لَنَا مِنْ صَالِحِ الْاَعْمَالِ عَمَلًا نَسْتَبْطِئُ مَعَهُ الْمَصِيرَ اِلَيْكَ، وَنَحْرِصُ لَهٗ عَلَى وَشْكِ اللَّحَاقِ بِكَ حَتَّى يَكُونَ الْمَوْتُ مَاْنَسَنَا الَّذِي نَاْنَسُ بِهٖ، وَمَاْلَفَنَا الَّذِي نَشْتَاقُ اِلَيْهِ، وَحَامَّتَنَا الَّتِي نُحِبُّ الدُّنُوَّ مِنْهَا
WAJ'AL LANAA MIN SAALIHIL A'MAALI A'MALAN NASTABTI'U MA'AHUL MASEERA ILAYKA WA NAHRISU LAHOO A'LAA WASHKIL LAHAAQI BIKA HATTAA YAKOONAL MAWTU MA'NASANAL LADHEE NA'NASU BIHEE WA MA'LAFANAL LADHEE NASHTAAQU ILAYHI WA HAAMMATANAL LATEE NUHIBBUD DUNUWWA MINHAA
Appoint for us from among the righteous works a work through which we will feel the homecoming to Thee as slow and crave a quick joining with Thee, so that death may be our intimate abode with which we are intimate, our familiar place toward which we yearn, and our next of kin whose coming we love!
فَاِذَا اَوْرَدْتَهٗ عَلَيْنَا وَاَنْزَلْتَهٗ بِنَا فَاَسْعِدْنَا بِهٖ زَائِراً، وَآنِسْنَا بِهٖ قَادِماً، وَلَا تُشْقِنَا بِضِيَافَتِهٖ، وَلَا تُخْزِنَا بِزِيَارَتِهٖ، وَاجْعَلْهُ بَاباً مِنْ اَبْوَابِ مَغْفِرَتِكَ، وَمِفْتَاحاً مِنْ مَفَاتِيحِ رَحْمَتِكَ
FA-IDHAA AWRADTAHOO A'LAYNAA WA ANZALTAHOO BINAA FA-AS'IDNAA BIHEE ZAA'IRAN WA AANISNAA BIHEE QAADIMAN WA LAA TUSHQINAA BIDIYAAFATIHEE WA LAA TUKHZINAA BIZIYAARATIHEE WAJ'ALHU BAABAN MIN ABWAABI MAGHFIRATIKA WA MIFTAAHAN MIN MAFAATEEHI RAHMATIK
When Thou bringest it to us and sendest it down upon us, make us happy with it as a visitor, comfort us with its arrival, make us not wretched through entertaining it, degrade us not through its visit, and appoint it one of the gates to Thy forgiveness and the keys to Thy mercy!
اَمِتْنَا مُهْتَدِينَ غَيْرَ ضَالِّينَ، طَائِعِينَ غَيْرَ مُسْتَكْرِهِينَ، تَائِبِينَ غَيْرَ عَاصِينَ وَلَا مُصِرِّينَ، يَا ضَامِنَ جَزَاءِ الْمُحْسِنِينَ، وَمُسْتَصْلِحَ عَمَلِ الْمُفْسِدِينَ
AMITNAA MUHTADEENA GHAYRA DAALLEENA TAA'I'EENA GHAYRA MUSTAKRIHEENA TAA'IBEENA GHAYRA A'ASEENA WA LAA MUSIRREENA YAA DAAMINA JAZAA'IL MUHSINEENA WA MUSTASLIHA A'MALIL MUFSIDEEN
Make us die guided, not astray, obedient, not averse, repentant, not disobedient or persisting, O He who guarantees the repayment of the good-doers and seeks to set right the work of the corrupt!
