al-Muḍariyya #

O my Lord, pour Your blessings upon the Chosen One of Mudar

And the Prophets and all of the Messengers whenever they are mentioned

And pour blessings, O my Lord, upon the Guide and his Followers

And his Companions, those who spread abroad the teachings of the religion

Who fought alongside him in the path of Allah, and struggled valiantly,

Who emigrated, gave him shelter and aided him

Who made clear the fard and the sunna, joined forces

For the sake of Allah, clung to Allah and so were victorious

The most excellent, the most extensive, and the most noble of blessings,

Their fragrant diffusion sweetly permeates the universe

Fragrant with the odour of musk, delightful.

From their scent spreads the sweet perfume of acceptance and good pleasure

In quantity as great as the pebbles, the moist earth, the grains of sand,

Followed by the stars in the heavens, plants of the earth and mounds of clay

As great as the measure of the weight of the mountains,

And the drops of all the water and all the rain

In number as great as the leaves of all the trees,

And every letter or character that will be read or written

In number as great as the wild animals, the birds, fish and cattle

Followed by the jinn, the angels and human beings

The tiny motes and the ants, all the kernels of grain,

As well as hair and wool, feathers and animal fur

And all that which comprises the total sum of knowledge,

And whatever was brought by the commanded Pen and the Divine Decree

In number as great as Your favours,

Which You have bestowed upon created beings, ever since they came into being and were gathered together

As great as his lofty degree

By which the Prophets and the angels were ennobled, and they took pride in this

As great as whatever exists in all the universes, O my Support,

And whatever is still to come into existence, until the Day when the forms will be resurrected

In every twinkling of the eye by which

The people of the heavens and the earths glance or cease to glance

Whatever fills the heavens and the earths, together with the mountains,

The spread-out earth, the Throne, the Footstool and all they contain

Whatever existing thing Allah has caused to vanish, or whatever non-existent thing

He has brought into being, blessings without limit and enduring forever

Whose number lasts through all the ages, as

They are boundless, leaving out nothing, encompassing all

They have no final end and no conclusion, O Mighty One,

And no limit decreed, so consider this well

In number as great as the multiples of all numbers there have been,

Together with multiplying these multiples, O One Who decrees

Just as You love, O my Master, and in accordance with Your pleasure

And as You have commanded us to send blessings, You are the Owner of Mighty Power

Together with peace, to the number of what has been mentioned

O my Lord, and multiply them both so that grace may spread far and wide

All of this further multiplied by Your Right in the breaths

Of Your created beings, whether they be few in number or many

O my Lord, forgive the one who recites it, as well as the one who hears it,

And all of the Muslims, wherever they may be

And our parents, our families and our neighbours

For all of us, O my Master, are in great need of forgiveness

I have committed many wrong actions - there is no end to them!

But indeed Your pardon leaves nothing - no sin remains

Worry has preoccupied me from all that I hope to attain,

And it came humbly and with a broken heart

I beseech You, O my Lord, to show us mercy in the two worlds,

By the rank of the one in whose hands pebbles glorified God

O my Lord, increase for us both our reward and forgiveness,

For surely Your Generosity is a sea without a shore

Settle the debts which leave noble character in difficult straits,

And release us from our troubles, O You Who are Powerful

Be kind to us whenever calamities befall us,

With a beautiful kindness which causes all distress to disappear

By Mustafa, the Elected One, the Best of Creation,

In whose praise surahs were revealed to honour him

And then prayers be upon the Chosen One

As long as the sun shines upon the day, and the moon casts its radiance about

And may You be pleased with Abu Bakr, his caliph,

Who stood up for the religion after he was gone

And with Abu Hafs al-Faruq, his companion

Umar, whose word in his rulings was decisive,

And bestow good upon Uthman, he of the two lights, for whom

The virtues were perfected in the two worlds, and in the final victory

And likewise Ali, as well as his two sons and their mother,

The People of the Cloak, as has come down to us in tradition

And also our lady Khadijah al-Kubra who generously gave her wealth

In order to help and support the Messenger of Allah

And those pure women, the wives of Mustafa,

And his daughters and sons, whenever they are mentioned

As well as Sad, Sad ibn Awf and Talha

And Abu Ubayda and Zubayr, the finest of masters

And Hamza and also Abbas, our master, and his son,

The learned one through whom difficulties were resolved

And all the Family and Companions, and all the Followers,

As long as darkness still falls upon the night, and the dawn reappears

Bless them with good pleasure from You in pardon and well-being

And with a good ending when life draws to a close.