DUA OF CIRCUMCISION (KHATNA)

Twenty-sixth: Imam al-Sadiq (‘a) is reported to have said:

These words should be said before circumcising any boy. However, if one neglects saying these words, he must say them before the boy attains maturity. If he does, the boy will be saved from the heat of iron (i.e. being killed by a sword or the like):

O Allah, this is the tradition decreed by You and instructed by Your Prophet,

may Your blessings be upon him and his Household.

[We have carried it out] as sign of our commitment to Your decrees and patterning after Your Prophet,

within Your will and Your volition

and within Your bringing about a matter that You have wanted to be,

a decree that You have determined,

and an order that You have deemed obligatory.

You have thus caused him to taste the heat of iron in his circumcision and cupping

due to a matter that You know better than I do.

O Allah, so (please) purify him from sins,

increase the term of his lifetime,

drive away diseases from his physique

and pains from his body,

grant him wealth increasingly,

and chase off poverty from him.

Verily, You know and we do not know.