Dua Aliya Mazameen

O Allah, I am visiting this Imam

confessing his Imamate

and believing in the obligation of the obedience to him;

therefore, I have betaken myself to his shrine in spite of all of my sins, defects,

the perils of my wrongdoings,

my numerous misdeeds and faults,

and whatsoever You know about me;

taking shelter in Your amnesty,

seeking refuge of Your forbearance,

hoping for Your mercy,

resorting to Your asylum,

seeking the protection of Your compassion,

seeking the intercession of Your vicegerent and the son (If this supplication is said at the holy shrine of Imam 'Ali ('a), the word ‘wabni (and the son)’ must be changed into ‘wa abi (and the father)’.) of Your vicegerent,

Your choicest servant and the son of Your choicest servants,

Your trustee and the son of Your trustees,

and Your representative and the son of Your representatives,

whom You have made the means to approach Your mercy and pleasure

and the channels to Your compassion and forgiveness.

O Allah, my first need from You

is that I implore You to forgive all of my previous sins although they are numerous,

to protect me (against sinning) in my coming lifetime,

to purify my religion from whatsoever stains,

disgraces, or degrades it,

to save it from suspect, doubt,

corruption, and blasphemy,

to make me stand firm on the obedience to You,

to Your Messenger,

and to his Progeny the pure and happy,

may Your blessings be upon them

as well as Your mercy, peace, and favors,

to make me live as long as You grant me life on the obedience to them,

to make me die, when You decide so, on the obedience to them,

and not to erase from my heart my love and affection for them,

my aversion to their enemies,

my companionship of their adherents, and my acting piously towards them.

I also beseech You, O my Lord, to accept all that from me,

to endear my worshipping You to myself,

to endue me with perseverance in worship,

to make me active in it,

to make me loathe acts of disobedience to You and acts that You deemed forbidden,

to take me away from these acts,

to save me against negligence of my prayers,

belittling them,

and slackening in their performance,

to lead me to perform them as perfect as You have made incumbent upon me and as You have commanded

according to the traditions of Your Messenger,

may Your blessings be upon him and his Household

as well as Your mercy and favors,

with submission and reverence,

to expand my breast for defraying the poor-rate,

giving alms,

giving charity,

and doing favors to the adherents of the Household of Muhammad,

peace be upon them, and for consoling them.

Do not take me up (i.e. cause me to die) before You bestow upon me with the favor of going on pilgrimage to Your Sacred House

and to the tomb of Your Prophet

and the tombs of the Imams, peace be upon them.

I also beseech You, O Lord, to grant me a sincere repentance that You accept,

an intention that You praise,

and righteous deed that You admit,

to forgive me and have mercy upon me when You take me up,

to make easy for me the agonies of death,

to include me with the group of Muhammad and his Household,

peace of Allah be upon him and them,

to allow me to enter Paradise out of Your mercy,

to make me shed heavy tears as obeisance to You,

to make my tears always run down in acts that draw me near You,

to make my heart sympathetic towards Your intimate servants,

to save me in this worldly life

from handicaps, epidemics,

incurable diseases,

chronic illnesses,

and all sorts of misfortunes and catastrophes.

[I also beseech You to] cause my heart to turn away from the forbidden (acts and things),

make me hate acts of disobedience to You,

make me love the legally gotten sustenance

open its doors before me,

make firm my intention and my deeds on it,

extend my lifetime,

and close the doors of adversaries before me.

(Please) do not deprive me of whatsoever You have favored upon me,

do not take back from me the graces that You have granted me,

do not strip me of the elegances that You have conferred upon me;

[rather, please] increase that which You have authorized me to possess,

expand it many folds for me,

and provide me with fortune that is very much,

spacious, agreeable,

joyful, growing, and satisfactory,

and with dignity that is everlasting and sufficient,

and with prestige that is outgoing and overwhelming,

and with bounty that is flowing and broad.

Through all that, (please) make me dispense with the humiliating appeals

and unreachable sources,

save me from them with good health

as regards my religion, self, sons,

and whatsoever You have given and granted me,

preserve for me my properties

and whatsoever You have put under my disposal,

watch me against the hands of the tyrants,

take me back to my homeland (safely),

confer upon me the utmost of my hope in my worldly life and the Hereafter,

make the consequence of my conducts praiseworthy, good, and sound,

make me broadminded,

well-off,

and well-mannered,

[and take me] away from miserliness, stinginess.

hypocrisy, fabrication,

slander, and perjury.

[Please] make firm in my heart the love for Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad and their adherents (Shi'ah).

O Lord, guard me, my family,

my properties, my sons,

those who are under my custody, my brothers,

those whom I love, and my offspring

in the name of Your mercy and Magnanimity.

O Allah, these are my needs from You.

Out of my meanness and avarice, I have considered these needs great,

while in Your view the are insignificantly small

and they are easy and effortless for You.

I thus beseech You in the name of the standing of Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad,

peace be upon him and them, in Your view,

in the name of Your duty towards You,

in the name of what You have made incumbent upon Yourself towards them,

in the name of Your other Prophets and Messengers,

in the name of Your choicest ones and intimate servants

whom You have selected over others for worshipping You,

and in the name of Your Grand, Substantial Name,

(I beseech You by all these) to grant me all of my requests,

to relieve me through settling them for me,

and not to disappoint nor let me down.

O Allah, (please) accept the one in this tomb as my interceder before You.

O my Master! O Allah’s vicegerent! O Allah’s trustee!

I beseech you to intercede for me before Allah the Almighty and All-majestic

so that He may approve of and grant me all of my requests

in the name of Your Immaculate fathers

and in the name of Your well-selected sons.

Verily, you enjoy in the view of Allah, sacred be His Names,

an honorable standing,

a lofty rank,

and a spacious regard.

O Allah, had I known a person more acceptable in Your view

than this Imam

and his immaculate fathers and sons,

peace and blessings be upon them,

I would have chosen them to be my interceders (before You)

and I would have introduced them as means by whom I would put before You my needs and requests.

Therefore, (please) hear from me,

respond to me,

and do to me that which You alone are worthy to do.

O most merciful of all those who show mercy.

O Allah, as regards the needs that my requests have not included,

the things that I am too powerless to do,

and the things that I am not too clever to mention,

among the things that prosper my religion, worldly life, and next life;

(please) confer upon me with these,

protect me, guard me,

bestow upon me (with Your favors), and forgive me.

As for any one who intends evil or wickedness to me,

such as a rebellious devil,

a tyrant ruler,

a dissident miscreant,

a rival in a worldly affair,

one who envies me for a grace,

an unjust individual, or a despot;

then (please) make their hands too short to catch me,

take away their plots against me,

preoccupy them against me with their own affairs,

save me from their evils

and the evils of their followers and devils,

stand by me against whatsoever may harm and do injustice to me,

and (please) grant me the entire goodness

whether I know or I do not.

O Allah, bless Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad

and forgive me, my parents,

my brothers, my sisters,

my (paternal) uncles, my (paternal) aunts,

my (maternal) uncles, my (maternal) aunts,

my forefathers, my foremothers,

their descendants, their offspring,

my spouse(s), my offspring,

my relatives, my friends,

my neighbors, my brothers-in-faith

from the people of the east and the west (of the earth),

all those whom I love

among the believing men and women,

be they alive or dead,

all those who have ever taught me an item of decency,

and those who have received from me an item of knowledge.

O Allah, make all these have a share in my best supplications to You

and in my (ritual) pilgrimages to the shrine of Your Argument and Your vicegerent;

make me have a share in the best of their supplications,

in the name of Your mercy, O most merciful of all those who show mercy.

Convey their greetings to Your vicegerent.

Peace and Allah's mercy and blessings be upon you.

O my master, O my leader; O…(You should here mention the name of the Imam you are visiting.)

may Allah bless you,

your soul, and your body;

you are my means to approach Allah

and my way towards Him;

and I enjoy the right of my loyalty to you and the right of my putting my entire hope in you;

therefore, be my interceder before Allah the Almighty and All-majestic

so that He shall regard my story (that I have just told)

and so that He shall decide success to be the result of all of my requests in this situation of mine

that I have besought from Him, out of His mercy and omnipotence.

O Allah, (please) bestow upon me a perfect intellectuality,

a sagacious reason,

an everlasting might,

a pure heart,

a very much deed,

and excellent manners;

decide all these to be for my good,

but do not make them stand against me;

in the name of Your mercy, O most merciful of all those who show mercy.