Dua Kumayl

DUA KUMAYL

In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful.

O Allah, I ask You by Your mercy,
which embraces all things (Quran 7:156);
by Your Strength,
 through which You dominate all things,
 toward which al things are humble and
 before which all things are lowly;
by Your Invincibility,
 through which You overwhelm all things;
by Your Might,
 which nothing can resist;
by Your Greatness,
 which has filled all things;
by Your Power,
 which towers over all things;
by Your Face,
 which subsist after annihilation of all things;
by Your Names,
 which have filled the foundations of all things;
by Your Knowledge,
 which encompasses all things; and
by the Light of Your Face,
 through which all things are illumined!

O Light! O All-Holy!
O First of the first and Last of the last!
O Allah, forgive me the sins
 which tear apart safeguards!
O Allah, forgive me the sins
 which bring down adversities!
O Allah, forgive me the sins
 which alter blessings!
O Allah, forgive me the sins
 which dash all hopes!
O Allah, forgive me the sins
 which bring about tribulation!
O Allah, forgive me
 every sin I have committed and
 every mistake I have made!
O Allah, verily I seek nearness to You
 through remembrance of You,
 I seek intercession from You with Yourself,
 and I ask You through Your Munificence,
 to bring me nearer to Your Mercy,
 to bless me with gratitude to You and
 to inspire me with Your remembrance.

O Allah, verily I ask You with the asking
 of a submissive, abased and lowly man
 to show me forbearance,
 to have mercy on me and
 to make me satisfied and content
 with Your apportionment,
 and humble in every state.
O Allah, I ask You with the asking of one
 whose indigence is extreme,
 who has states to You in difficulties his need
 and whose craving for what is with You
 has become intense.
O Allah, Great is Your Kingdom,
 Lofty is Your Being,
 Your contrivance is hidden,
 Your Command is manifest,
 Your Domination is overwhelming,
 Your Power is ever-operating
 and escape from Your Domain is impossible.
O Allah, I find no forgiver of my sins,
 no concealer of my wicked acts,
 no transformer of any of my wicked acts
 into good acts by You.
 There is no deity but You!
 Glory by to You, and Yours is the Praise!

 I have wronged myself,
 I have been audacious in my ignorance and
 I have depended upon
 Your constant remembrance of me and
 Your favour toward me.
O Allah, O my Protector!
 How many ugly things You have concealed!
 How many tribulations You have warded off!
 How many stumbles You have removed!
 How many ordeals You have averted!
 And how much beautiful praise,
 for which I was unworthy,
 You have spread about me.
O Allah, my tribulation is tremendous,
 my bad state is excessive,
 my acts are inadequate,
 my fetters have tied me down,
 my high hopes have held me back from my gain
 and this world with its delusions,
 my own soul with its offences and
 my dilly-dallying have deceived me.
O my Lord! So I ask You by Your Might
 not to let my evil deeds and acts
 veil my supplication from You;

 not to disgrace me through the hidden things
 You know of my secrets and
 not to hasten me to punishment
 for what I have done in private;
 my evil acts in secrecy, my misdeeds,
 my continuous negligence, my ignorance,
 my manifold passions and my forgetfulness,
 And by Your Might, O Allah,
 be kind to me in all states and
 be gracious to me in all affairs!
My Allah and my Lord!
 Have I any but You from whom to ask
 remedy of my affliction
 and regard for my affairs?
My Allah and my Protector!
 I have myself given a decree against me,
 I followed the caprice of my own soul and
 did not defend myself from my enemy (Satan),
 which deluded me through my soul's caprice
 and therein destiny favoured it.
So I crossed some of the barriers and
 transgressed some of Your statutes and
 disobeyed some of Your Commands,

So Yours is the argument against me in all of that
 and I have no argument in what Your destiny
 put into effect through me therein;
 nor in what Your decree and Your
 tribulation imposed upon me.
Now I have turned to You, my Allah,
 after my shortcoming
 and my immoderation toward myself,
 proffering my excuse, regretful,
 broken, apologizing,
 asking forgiveness, repenting,
 acknowledging, submissive, confessing.
I find no place to flee
 from what occurred through me,
 nor any place of escape
 to which I may turn in my affairs,
 other than Your acceptance of my excuse
 and Your entering me into
 the compass of Your Mercy.
O Allah, so accept my excuse,
 have Mercy upon the severity of my affliction
 and release me from tightness of my fetters,
My Loard, have mercy upon
 the weakness of my body,
 the thinness of my skin and
 the frailty of my bones.

O You who gave rise to my creation,
 to the remembrance of me,
 to the nurture of me,
 to the goodness toward me and
 to nourishment of me,
 bestow upon me for the sake of
 Your having given rise (to me) with generosity
 and Your previous goodness to me!
My Allah, my Master and my Lord!
 Can't You see Yourself
 tormenting me with Your Fire
 after I have professed Your Oneness;
 after Your cognition my heart has embraced,
 the remembrance of You
 my tongue has constantly mentioned and
 the love of You to which my mind has clungl
 after sincerity of my confession and my
 supplication, humble before Your Lordship?
Far be it from You!
You are more generous than that you should
 torture him whom You have nurtured;
 banish him whom You have brought up;
 drive away him whom You have given an abode;
 or submit to tribulation him whom
 You have spared and shown mercy.
Would that I knew, my Master, my Allah and my Protector,
 whether You will give the Fire
 dominion over faces

 fallen down prostrate before Your Greatness;
 tongues voicing sincerely
 the profession of Your Oneness and
 giving thanks to You in praise;
 hearts acknowledging Your Divinity
 through verification;
 minds encompassing knowledge of You
 until they have become humble;
 and limbs speeding to the places
 of Your worship in obedience and
 entreating Your forgiveness in submission.
No such opinion is held of You!
 Nor has such been reported - thanks to
 Your Bounty - concerning You,
 O All-Generous!
My Lord, and You know my weakness
 before a little of this world's
 tribulations and punishments and
 before those ordeals which befall its dwellers,
 even though it is a tribulation and ordeal
 whose stay is short,
 whose subsistence is but little and
 whose period is but fleeting.
So how can I endure the tribulation
 of the next world and

 the great ordeals that occur within it?
 For it is a tribulation whose period is long;
 whose station endures, and
 whose sufferers and given no respite,
 since it only occurs as a result of Your Wrath,
 Your Vengeance and Your Anger,
 and these cannot be withstood
 by the heavens and the earth.
My Master, so what about me?
 For I am Your weak, lowly, base,
 wretched and miserable slave.
My Lord! My Lord! My Master! My Protector!
 For which things would I complain to You and
 for which of them would I lament and weep?
 For the pain and severity of chastisement?
 Or for the length and period of tribulation?
 So if You subject me to the punishments with
 Your enemies, gather me

 with the people of Your tribulation
 and separate me from Your friends and saints
 then suppose, my Allah, my Master,
 my Protector and my Lord,
 (and suppose) that I am able to endure Your chastisement,
 How can I endure separation from You?
 And suppose that I am able to endure
 the heat of Your Fire (of Hell),
 How can I endure not gazing
 upon Your Generosity?
 Or how can I dwell in the Fire (of Hell)
 while my hope is your pardon?
 So by Your Might,
 My Master and my Protector,
 I swear sincerely,
 if You leave me with speech,
 I will lament before You from the midst
 of the Fire's inhabitants (of Hell)
 with the lamentation of the hopeful;
 I will cry to You with the cry
 of those crying for help;
 I will weep before You with the weeping
 of the bereft; and I will call upon You,
 "Where are You, O Sponsor of the believers,
 O Goal of the hopes of Your knowers!
 O Aid of those who seek assistance,
 O Friend of the hearts of the sincere, and

O Allah of all the world's inhabitants!"
 Can't You see Yourself - Glory be to You
 my Allah, and Yours is the praise -
 hearing within the Fire the voice
 of a slave surrender to You,
 imprisoned there because of his violations,
 suffering the pangs of its torment
 because of his disobedience, and
 confined within its levels
 because of his sin and crime,
 while he laments before You with the
 lament of one hopeful for Your Mercy,
 calls upon You with the tongue
 of those who profess Your Oneness
 and entreats You by Your Lordship?
My Protector, so how should he remain
 in the chastisement while he has hope
 for Your previous clemency?
Or how should the Fire (of Hell) cause him pain
 while he expects Your Bounty and Mercy?
Or how should its flames burn him
 while You hear his voice and see his place?
Or how should its groaning encompass him

 While You know his weakness?
Or how should he be convulsed among its levels
 while you know his sincerity?
Or how should its keepers torture him
 while he calls out to You, "O Lord?"
Or how should he have hope of Your Bounty
 in freeing him from it
 while you abandon him within it?
Far be it from You
 That is not what is expected of You,
 nor what is well-known of Your Bounty;
 nor is it similar to the goodness and kindness
 You have shown to those who profess Your Oneness.
So I declare with certainty that
 were it not for what You have decreed
 concerning the chastisement of Your deniers
 and what You have foreordained concerning
 the everlasting home of those
 who stubbornly resist,
 You would make the Fire, all of it,
 coolness and safety, and no one would have
 a place of rest or abode within it.
But You - Holy are Your Names - have sworn

 that You will fill it with the unbelievers,
 both jinn and men, and
 that You will place those,
 who stubbornly resist, therein forever.
And You - Majestic is Your eulogy - said
 at the beginning and were Gracious
 through kindness as a favour,
 What Is he who has been a believer
 like him who has been ungodly?
 They are not equal (Quran 32:18)

My Allah and my Master! So I ask You
 by the power You have apportioned
 And the decision which
 You have determined and imposed,
 and through which
 You have overcome him toward
 whom it has been put into effect - that
 You forgive me in this night and at this hour
 every offence I have committed,
 every sin I have performed,
 every wicked thing I have concealed,
 every folly I have enacted
 - whether I have hidden it or announced it,
 whether I have concealed it or manifested it -
 every evil act which You have commanded
 the Noble Writers to record,

 those whom You have appointed to watch
 over every action of mine
 and whom You have made,
 along with my limbs, witness against me.
And You are Yourself the Watcher (Quran 5:117)
 over me from behind them,
 and the Witness of what is hidden from them,
 but through Your Mercy You concealed it
 and through Your Bounty You veiled it.
 (And I ask You) that You bestow upon me an
 abundant share of every good You send down,
 kindness You confer;
 goodness You unfold;
 provision You spread out;
 sin You forgive or error You cover.
My Lord! My Lord! My Lord!
My Allah! My Master! My Protector!
 Owner of my bondage!
O He in whose Hand is my forelock!
O He who knows my affliction and my misery!
O he who is aware of my poverty and indigence!
My Lord! My Lord! My Lord!
I ask You by Your Truth, Your Holiness and
 the greatest of Your Attributes and Names,

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