His Supplication in the Night Prayer

certainty. I complain of his evil neighbourhood with meand my soul's obedience toward him! I ask Thee to preserve me against his domination, and I plead with Thee to turn his trickery away from me! 28- I ask Theeto make the path to my provision easy, since to Thee belongs praise forThy beginning with immense favoursand Thy inspiring gratitudefor beneficence and bestowing favour! Bless Muhammad and his Household, and make the way to my provision easy for me! [I ask Thee] to make me contentwith Thy ordainment for me, to make me satisfied with my lotin that which Thou hast apportioned for meand to place what has gone of my body and my life-spaninto the path of Thy obedience! 5Surely Thou art the Best of providers! 29- O God, I seek refuge in Thee from the Firethrough which Thou art harsh toward him who disobeys Theeand by which Thou hast threatened him who turns away from Thy good pleasure; from the Firewhose light is darkness, whose ease is pain, and whose far is near; from the Fireparts of which devour partsand parts of which leap upon parts; 30- from the Fire whichleaves bones decayedand lets its people drink boiling water; from the Fire which'does not spare him who pleads to it, '6has no mercy on him who seeks sympathy from it, and has no power to relieve him who humbles himself before itand yields himself to it; it meets its inhabitants with the hottest that it possesses: painful punishment and intense noxiousness. 31- I seek refuge in Thee from its gaping-jawed scorpions, its scraping-toothed serpents, and its drinks, which tear apart the intestines and hearts of its inhabitantsand root out their marrows. I ask guidance from Thee to that which will keep far from it and make it retreat! 32- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, grant me sanctuary from it through the bounty of Thy mercy, release me from my stumbles through Thy good releasing, and abandon me not, O Best of the sanctuary-granters! 33- O God, Thou protectest from the disliked, givest the good, dost what Thou wilt, andThou art powerful over everything. 7 34- O God, bless Muhammad and his Householdwhen the pious are mentionedand bless Muhammad and his Household as long as night and day come and gowith a blessing whose replenishment is never cut offand whose number cannot be counted, a blessing that will fill up the airand crowd the earth and the heaven! 35- God bless him until he is well pleasedand God bless him and his Household after good pleasurewith a blessing that has neither bound nor utmost limit! O Most Merciful of the merciful! We created man of an extraction of clay, then We set him, a drop, in a receptacle secure, then We created of the drop a clot, then We created of the clot a tissue, then We created of the tissue bones, then We garmented the bones with flesh; thereafter We produced him as another creature. Whosoever does that shall meet the price of sin. . . save him who repents, has faith, and does righteous works - those, God will change their evil deeds into good deeds (25: 68-70).