DUA MAKNOON AND ITS MERITS

Seventeenth: Al-Tusi, Ibn Baabwayh, and others have reported through valid chains of authority that Imam AliAmeer al-Momineen(a.s.) said, “Whoever wishes that he leaves this worldly life as pure of sins as untainted gold and none will demand him to be sued for a wrongdoing, must recite twelve times after each of the five obligatory prayers the Chapter that describes Almighty Allah; namely, Surah al-Tawheed. He may then stretch his hand and pray Almighty Allah with this supplicatory prayer, which is one of the redeeming matters that Allah’s Messenger (s.a.w.a.) taught and ordered me to convey to al-Hasan and al-Husayn (a.s.):

O Allah, I beseech You by Your Name: the well-guarded, the stored,

The pure, the immaculate, and the blessed;

and I beseech You by Your Great Name

and by Your eternal power!

O Donor of gifts!

O Releaser of captives!

O Deliverer of slaves from the Fire!

(Please) send blessings upon Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad,

set my neck free from the Fire,

make me leave this world free from liabilities,

allow me to enter Paradise with security,

and make the beginning of my prayer successful,

the middle of it a gain,

and the end of it a prosperity.

Verily, You are the Knower of all unseen things.

The same supplicatory prayer in other validly reported copies of the tradition is as follows:

O Deliverer of slaves from the Fire,

I beseech You to send blessings upon Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad,

deliver me from the Fire,

cause me to leave this world free (from liabilities),

allow me to enter Paradise with security,

and make the beginning of my prayer successful,

the middle of it a gain,

and the end of it a prosperity.

Verily, You are the Knower of all unseen things.