<p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><b><i>A beautiful Dua by Hadhrat Muhaddith-e-Deccan</i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed">O Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We ask of you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If we don’t ask of you, then whom should we ask of?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>O Allah!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You are very benevolent, very merciful.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed">O You who provide refuge to those who are refuge-less!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed">O You who grant peace to those who are in fear!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed">O succor of those who are succorless!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed">O refuge of those who don’t have any refuge!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed">O support of those who are weak!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed">All our hopes are with you only!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed">You are the One who save from destruction</p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed">You float the drowning one<span lang="HI" style="font-family:Mangal; mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O One with tremendous power!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The whole world bows before you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>With what face should we come before you? <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Let our Durud and Salaam reach Your Prophet (Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We come before with the hope of his support.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You don’t see us, see your Prophet.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We take His name.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are your slaves, but we are runaway slaves.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We have wandered from door to door <i>Man Yaghfirudh Dhunuba Illallah</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>No one can forgive sins except you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>After wandering here and there, we have come to your door.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Where should we go leaving your door?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Good or bad, but we are still yours.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You have thousands of slaves like us, but we don’t have any Master like you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are soaked in sin.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are embarrassed that we could not perform any good deeds.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Our heads are bowed.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We cry on our intellect.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What is that intellect which does not desire its friend?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>O Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What should I do?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Enemy has stolen the store of life.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What should I do?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Whatever I do falls flat.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are very bad slaves of yours.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are ashamed to even call ourselves your slave.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A slave of a Sovereign like you should be like you, not a sinner like me.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I am ashamed.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A slave of a Sublime Lord should be pure.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>How munificent are you!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>How your mercy gushes!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Our heedlessness is like this, but even then you remember us.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Our sins are like this.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Still you call us for forgiveness.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The way a mother hides the sins of her child, in the same way you hide our sins.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You don’t allow us to be debased.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You see our mistakes upon mistakes and still grant sustenance (<i>Rizq</i>).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>If you had chopped us into pieces, we would have deserved it.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>But my Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We did what suited us.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You do what suits you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What suits is that you wipe out the sins and write virtues in their place.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Your 1 mercy is in this world and 99 are in the hereafter.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Although our sins are great, but is 99 degrees of mercy any less?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>That is why we say, wipe out our sins and write virtues in their place.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We repent all our sins.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Never will we do them and guide us never to do them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Grant us such fear of Yours that no sin is committed by us.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Make us obey You so much which will take us into Jannah.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Let us have such certitude in Your will that the difficulties of this world become easy for us.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Don’t give us such a difficulty that will spoil our <i>Deen</i>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Don’t make the world such in our eyes that we think that this world is everything and don’t care at all for the hereafter.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You are that Sublime Being that no one can see you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>No one’s thoughts can reach you.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Nobody can describe You as You are.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Happenings cannot change You.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You are aware of every bit of the universe.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Nothing can hide from You.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Our request is that You make latter part of our life should be better than the former one.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Make our last act better than our previous ones.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The best of all days should be the one when we meet You.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O our Sovereign!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We have one more request.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Your glory is strange.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You reveal virtues and hide sins.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You don’t rend anybody’s veil.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>You are a very great forgiver.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Your forgiveness is very expansive.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The way people call a child with love, in the same way, you spread Your hands of mercy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O knower of all secrets!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O remover of all complaints!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O Forgiver of all sins!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O You who have mercy on us without our deserving it!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Our sovereign! Our Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Listen to one request of ours:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Don’t burn our bodies in hell!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">The way a mother stops a child from every harmful thing, who does not see whether it is fire or snake or scorpion, just jumps at it, in the same way, O You who love us more than a million mothers!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Protect us from everything, which will harm us in the hereafter.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The way the eyes of the worldly people are cooled with this world, let our eyes be cooled with Your worship.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Give us the yearning of Your vision.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>O succor of the succorless!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Don’t give us to the enemies that or Self (<i>Nafs</i>) and Satan misguide us from your path.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Give us Halal sustenance.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Always save us from Haraam sustenance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>What mention of those who are unwise?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For the sake of your wise slaves who perform your Dhikr all the time, standing, sitting, lying, no moment do they spend heedless of you.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For the sake of those close to You!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord! For the sake of Your greatness!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord! For the sake of Your majesty!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For the sake of the blessed name of Your Beloved Prophet!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">O Lord!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For the sake of the love that Your lovers have for You!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For the sake of the Dhikr and contemplation of Your <i>Dhakireen</i>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI">Grant sense to us!<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Our heedlessness should pass and we get a taste of your remembrance and contemplation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi: embed"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal;mso-bidi-language:HI"> </span></p>