After the evening (maghrib) ritual prayer:
1. O God! You are the Source of Peace and all peace comes from You. Blessed are You and exalted, O Lord of infinite goodness and bounty!Then one says:
2. Glory be to God who is exempt from all shortcomings, and all praise be to Him, Lord of the worlds; there is no god but God, and God is the Greatest; there is no strength or power except in God, the All-High, the All-Mighty.
Then the following is read (Ayat al-Kursi):
1. God! There is no god but He, the All-Living, the Self-Subsistent. Neither does slumber overtake Him nor sleep, and to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. Who can intercede with Him except by His leave? He knows what is before them and what is behind them and they comprehend of His knowledge only that which He wills. His Throne encompasses the heavens and the earth, and maintaining them both tires Him not. He is the Exalted, the Sublime. (Baqara 2:255)2. Then one says:
Glory be to God! (33 times) Praise be to God! (33 times) God is the Greatest. (33 times).
3. Then one supplicates with what comes to his heart from God after which he invokes a hundred times:
There is no god but God. (100 times)
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1. Then he says: O God, Turner of hearts! Bind our hearts to Your religion.
2. I seek refuge in God from Satan the accursed. * In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. (10 times)
3 Evening has fallen upon us and upon the creation, and all belongs to God. He has no associate, there is no god but He and to Him is the journeying. The evening has come upon us and the creation, and all belongs to God. I seek refuge in God who by His leave keeps what is in the sky from falling onto the earth, from the evil of what He created and dispersed and originated perfectly.
4. O God! Verily I ask You for good health with faith, faith with good character, success followed by salvation, and for Your mercy, well-being, Your forgiveness and good pleasure.
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1. O God! Originator of the heavens and earth, Knower of the unseen and the manifest, and Lord and Owner of everything. I bear witness that there is no god but You. I seek refuge in You from the evil of my self, the evil of Satan and his helpers and from wronging myself or another Muslim. (3 times)
2. O God! As evening falls I do bear witness before You, before the bearers of Your Throne and before all of Your creation, that You are God besides whom there is no other god and that Muhammad is Your servant and Messenger. (3 times)
3. O God! Grant me well-being in this life and the Hereafter!
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1. O God! I ask You for pardon and for preservation in my religion, in my life in this world, in my family and in my wealth. O God! Conceal my imperfections and calm all my fears!
2. O God! Protect me (against dangers) from in front, from behind, from my right, from my left, and from above, and I take refuge in Your greatness from being swallowed by the earth beneath me.
3. We are content with God as our Lord, with Islam as our religion and with Muhammad as our Messenger. I am content with God as my Lord, with Islam as my religion, and with Muhammad as my prophet. (3 times)
4. O God! Grant me health in my body and health in my hearing. O God! Grant me health in my sight, there is no god but You.
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1. O God! I take refuge in You from unbelief and poverty. O God! I take refuge in You from the punishment of the grave. (3 times)
2. Glory be to God, and to Him be praise, there is no strength except in God. Whatever He wills comes to be, and what He wills not does not come to pass. I know that God has power over all things and that His knowledge encompasses everything.
3. We have reached the evening with the pristine way of Islam, with the testimony of sincerity, with the religion of our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and with the faith of our forefather Abraham the pure Muslim who was not among the idolaters. O Living, Self-Subsistent [Lord]! In your mercy I seek relief. Rectify for me all my affairs and leave me not to my self even for the blinking of an eye.
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1. O God! You are the most worthy of remembrance and the most worthy of worship. You are the best helper of all those who are sought [for help]. You are the most compassionate of owners, the most generous of those who are petitioned, and the most liberal of givers. You are the King without associate, Alone without peer. Everything perishes except You. You are not obeyed except by Your leave and You are not disobeyed except in Your knowledge. When You are obeyed You show gratitude and when You are disobeyed You are forgiving. You are the closest Witness and the Guardian most nigh. You come between (humankind) and their own souls, and You have them completely in Your grasp. You have recorded their actions and set down their life spans. Hearts reach You and with You all that which is secret is open to view. The legitimate is only that which You have made legitimate, and the forbidden is only that which You have forbidden. Religion is what You have prescribed, and the command is what You have decreed.
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1. The creation is Your creation and every servant is Your servant. You are God, the Compassionate, the Beneficent.
2. I ask You by the light of Your Countenance by which the heavens and the earth became illuminated, by every right that is Yours and by the right of those who ask of You, to support me through this day and night and to save me from the hellfire through Your Power.
3. God is my sufficiency, there is no god but Him. In Him have I put my trust and He is the Lord of the Supreme Throne. (Tawba 9:129) (7 times)
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1. O God! You are my Lord, there is no god but You. You created me, I am Your servant and I have tried to keep my oath and promise to You as much as I can. I seek refuge in You from the evil of what I have done. I acknowledge the grace You have bestowed upon me, and I acknowledge my sin. So, forgive me, for truly no one forgives sins except You.
2. There is no god but God and God is the Greatest, there is no god but God alone, there is no god but God without associate, there is no god but God. His is the dominion and all praise is due to Him. There is no god but God and there is no strength or power except in God.
3. O God! Verily I ask You for good health with faith, faith with good character, success followed by salvation, I ask You for Your mercy, for well-being, for Your forgiveness and good pleasure.
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1. In the name of God with [the protection of] Whose name nothing on earth or in heaven can do harm, and He is the All- Hearing, the All-Knowing. (3 times)
2. I seek refuge in the perfect words of God from the evil of what He created. (3 times)
3. "So glorify God when you enter the night and when you enter the morning.* To Him belongs all praise in the heavens and the earth, at the close of day and at noontide. * He brings forth the living from the dead, and He brings forth the dead from the living; even so shall you be brought forth." (Rum 30:17-19)
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1. The Verse of the Throne (Ayat al-Kursi):
"God! There is no god but He, the All-Living, the Self-Subsistent. Neither does slumber overtake Him nor sleep, and to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. Who can intercede with Him except by His leave? He knows what is before them and what is behind them and they comprehend of His knowledge only that which He wills. His Throne encompasses the heavens and the earth, and maintaining them both tires Him not. He is the Exalted, the Sublime." (Baqara 2:255)
2. Evening has fallen upon us and upon creation—all belongs to God, and all praise is due to Him. There is no god but God, alone, without associate, His is the dominion, to Him is all praise, and He has power over all things.
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1. O Lord! I ask You for the goodness of this night, and the goodness of the nights thereafter and I seek refuge in You from the evil of this night and the evil of the nights thereafter.
2. O Lord! I take refuge in You from sloth and the ailments of old age. O Lord! I seek refuge in You from torment in the hellfire, and torment of the grave.
3. O God! I take refuge in You from sloth, decrepitude, the ailments of old age, the temptation of this world and the punishment of the Hereafter. The evening has fallen upon us and upon the creation, and all belongs to God, the Lord of the worlds.
4. O God! I ask from You the goodness of this night, the triumph, the support, the light, the grace, and the guidance therein, and I seek refuge in You from the evil of this night and the evil thereafter.
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1. O God! Make faith beloved to us, endearing it to our hearts, and make disbelief, impiety and disobedience hateful to us, and make us among the rightly guided.
1. God! There is no god but He, the All-Living, the Self-Subsistent. Neither does slumber overtake Him nor sleep, and to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. Who can intercede with Him except by His leave? He knows what is before them and what is behind them and they comprehend of His knowledge only that which He wills. His Throne encompasses the heavens and the earth, and maintaining them both tires Him not. He is the Exalted, the Sublime. (Baqara 2:255)2. Then one says:
Glory be to God! (33 times) Praise be to God! (33 times) God is the Greatest. (33 times).
3. Then one supplicates with what comes to his heart from God after which he invokes a hundred times:
There is no god but God. (100 times)
***
1. Then he says: O God, Turner of hearts! Bind our hearts to Your religion.
2. I seek refuge in God from Satan the accursed. * In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. (10 times)
3 Evening has fallen upon us and upon the creation, and all belongs to God. He has no associate, there is no god but He and to Him is the journeying. The evening has come upon us and the creation, and all belongs to God. I seek refuge in God who by His leave keeps what is in the sky from falling onto the earth, from the evil of what He created and dispersed and originated perfectly.
4. O God! Verily I ask You for good health with faith, faith with good character, success followed by salvation, and for Your mercy, well-being, Your forgiveness and good pleasure.
***
1. O God! Originator of the heavens and earth, Knower of the unseen and the manifest, and Lord and Owner of everything. I bear witness that there is no god but You. I seek refuge in You from the evil of my self, the evil of Satan and his helpers and from wronging myself or another Muslim. (3 times)
2. O God! As evening falls I do bear witness before You, before the bearers of Your Throne and before all of Your creation, that You are God besides whom there is no other god and that Muhammad is Your servant and Messenger. (3 times)
3. O God! Grant me well-being in this life and the Hereafter!
***
1. O God! I ask You for pardon and for preservation in my religion, in my life in this world, in my family and in my wealth. O God! Conceal my imperfections and calm all my fears!
2. O God! Protect me (against dangers) from in front, from behind, from my right, from my left, and from above, and I take refuge in Your greatness from being swallowed by the earth beneath me.
3. We are content with God as our Lord, with Islam as our religion and with Muhammad as our Messenger. I am content with God as my Lord, with Islam as my religion, and with Muhammad as my prophet. (3 times)
4. O God! Grant me health in my body and health in my hearing. O God! Grant me health in my sight, there is no god but You.
***
1. O God! I take refuge in You from unbelief and poverty. O God! I take refuge in You from the punishment of the grave. (3 times)
2. Glory be to God, and to Him be praise, there is no strength except in God. Whatever He wills comes to be, and what He wills not does not come to pass. I know that God has power over all things and that His knowledge encompasses everything.
3. We have reached the evening with the pristine way of Islam, with the testimony of sincerity, with the religion of our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and with the faith of our forefather Abraham the pure Muslim who was not among the idolaters. O Living, Self-Subsistent [Lord]! In your mercy I seek relief. Rectify for me all my affairs and leave me not to my self even for the blinking of an eye.
***
1. O God! You are the most worthy of remembrance and the most worthy of worship. You are the best helper of all those who are sought [for help]. You are the most compassionate of owners, the most generous of those who are petitioned, and the most liberal of givers. You are the King without associate, Alone without peer. Everything perishes except You. You are not obeyed except by Your leave and You are not disobeyed except in Your knowledge. When You are obeyed You show gratitude and when You are disobeyed You are forgiving. You are the closest Witness and the Guardian most nigh. You come between (humankind) and their own souls, and You have them completely in Your grasp. You have recorded their actions and set down their life spans. Hearts reach You and with You all that which is secret is open to view. The legitimate is only that which You have made legitimate, and the forbidden is only that which You have forbidden. Religion is what You have prescribed, and the command is what You have decreed.
***
1. The creation is Your creation and every servant is Your servant. You are God, the Compassionate, the Beneficent.
2. I ask You by the light of Your Countenance by which the heavens and the earth became illuminated, by every right that is Yours and by the right of those who ask of You, to support me through this day and night and to save me from the hellfire through Your Power.
3. God is my sufficiency, there is no god but Him. In Him have I put my trust and He is the Lord of the Supreme Throne. (Tawba 9:129) (7 times)
***
1. O God! You are my Lord, there is no god but You. You created me, I am Your servant and I have tried to keep my oath and promise to You as much as I can. I seek refuge in You from the evil of what I have done. I acknowledge the grace You have bestowed upon me, and I acknowledge my sin. So, forgive me, for truly no one forgives sins except You.
2. There is no god but God and God is the Greatest, there is no god but God alone, there is no god but God without associate, there is no god but God. His is the dominion and all praise is due to Him. There is no god but God and there is no strength or power except in God.
3. O God! Verily I ask You for good health with faith, faith with good character, success followed by salvation, I ask You for Your mercy, for well-being, for Your forgiveness and good pleasure.
***
1. In the name of God with [the protection of] Whose name nothing on earth or in heaven can do harm, and He is the All- Hearing, the All-Knowing. (3 times)
2. I seek refuge in the perfect words of God from the evil of what He created. (3 times)
3. "So glorify God when you enter the night and when you enter the morning.* To Him belongs all praise in the heavens and the earth, at the close of day and at noontide. * He brings forth the living from the dead, and He brings forth the dead from the living; even so shall you be brought forth." (Rum 30:17-19)
***
1. The Verse of the Throne (Ayat al-Kursi):
"God! There is no god but He, the All-Living, the Self-Subsistent. Neither does slumber overtake Him nor sleep, and to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. Who can intercede with Him except by His leave? He knows what is before them and what is behind them and they comprehend of His knowledge only that which He wills. His Throne encompasses the heavens and the earth, and maintaining them both tires Him not. He is the Exalted, the Sublime." (Baqara 2:255)
2. Evening has fallen upon us and upon creation—all belongs to God, and all praise is due to Him. There is no god but God, alone, without associate, His is the dominion, to Him is all praise, and He has power over all things.
***
1. O Lord! I ask You for the goodness of this night, and the goodness of the nights thereafter and I seek refuge in You from the evil of this night and the evil of the nights thereafter.
2. O Lord! I take refuge in You from sloth and the ailments of old age. O Lord! I seek refuge in You from torment in the hellfire, and torment of the grave.
3. O God! I take refuge in You from sloth, decrepitude, the ailments of old age, the temptation of this world and the punishment of the Hereafter. The evening has fallen upon us and upon the creation, and all belongs to God, the Lord of the worlds.
4. O God! I ask from You the goodness of this night, the triumph, the support, the light, the grace, and the guidance therein, and I seek refuge in You from the evil of this night and the evil thereafter.
***
1. O God! Make faith beloved to us, endearing it to our hearts, and make disbelief, impiety and disobedience hateful to us, and make us among the rightly guided.
2. O God! Verily I ask You for a soul that is at peace with You, believing in the meeting with You, content with Your decree, and satisfied with whatever You bestow.