Munajat Shabaniyah

O Allah, (please do) send blessings to Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad,

You listen to my supplication whenever I pray to you,

listen to my call whenever I call upon you,

and accept from me whenever I make my submission to you in confidence,

I have escaped towards you and stood before you,

standing before You, showing submission to You,

imploring You,

and hoping for the reward that You have for me.

You know what is in my inner self,

and you are aware of my needs,

and You know what is in my conscience,

and all my moves and stillness are known by You.

So are all the utterances which I want to begin with,

all the requests that I want to express,

and all the expectation that I hope for my future.

O my Master, all Your decsions in relation to me have come to pass

in all that happens to me up to the end of my life,

including my secret and open matters, shall be experienced by me.

And it is in Your hands, not anybody else’s, that are all my gains and losses

and all the benefits and harms that come upon me.

My Lord, if You deprive me (of Your sustenance), then who else can ever provide me with sustenance?

If You forsake me, then who else will help me?

My Lord, I do seek Your protection against Your wrath and earning your displeasure.

O my Lord, if I am not deserving of Your mercy,

You are certainly fit to be generous to me by virtue of your magnanimity.

My Lord, its like I see myself standing before You

It has been shaded by the goodness of my trust in you,

You said what befitted You and sheltered me with your forgiveness.

My Lord, if you pardon me, then who else is worthier than You are in pardoning.

If my time of death is near and my deeds have not brought me close to You

I make this confession of my sins to be a means of approaching You.

My Lord, I have been unjust to my soul for I have not looked after it;

It will be doomed if You do not forgive me.

My Lord, You have never ceased Your favors from me all my lifetime;

So do not cease Your goodness towards me at the time of my death.

My Lord, how can I despair of Your benevolent attention towards me after my death

while You have always been good to me throughout my lifetime?

My Lord, (please) manage my affairs in the very way that befits You,

and confer upon me—a sinful person who is covered by his ignorance—with Your favors.

My Lord, You have concealed my sins in this world,

but I am in greater need of their being concealed in the Next Life.

My Allah, You have been gracious to me by not revealing it to any of Your righteous servants,

so do not disgrace me on the Day of Resurrection before the witnesses.

My Lord, it is Your magnanimity that expanded my hope,

and surely Your pardon is superior to my deeds.

My Lord, therefore gladden my heart when I meet You on the day when You shall judge between Your servants.

My Lord, I submit to You the apology of one who cannot dispense with the acceptance of his excuse;

so, (please) accept my excuse, O most Magnanimous of all those before whom the guilty make an apology.

My Lord, (please) do not reject my request,

do not dissapoint my hope for You,

and do not cut off from You my hope and expectations from You.

My Lord, had You wanted to humiliate me, You would not have guided me (to You).

Had You decided to humiliate me,You would not have excused me.

My Lord, I do not expect You to reject my request that I spent my whole lifetime asking for it from You.

My Lord, all praise be to You, forever, forever, perpetually, everlastingly,

increasingly, and imperishably, as exactly as You like and please.

My Lord, if You punish me for my offense, I shall cling to Your pardon,

if You cease me for my sins, I shall take hold of Your forgiveness,

and if You put me to the fire, I shall declare to its inmates that I love You.

My Lord, should my deeds be insignificant with respect to obedience to You,

Great indeed is my hope with respect to my expectations from You.

My Lord, how can it be that I return from You with disappointment and deprivation

for indeed my beautiful opinion about Your generosity was that You shall reverse my fate by savng me mercifully.

My Lord, I have spent my entire lifetime in being negligent to You

and I have spent my whole youth with the stupor of being distant from You.

My Lord, I did not wake up from my delusions

and did not desist from pursuing the path of Your displeasure.

My Lord, nevertheless, I am—Your servant and the son of Your servant,now standing before You

and begging You in the name of Your generosity.

My Lord, I am a servant, disavowing before You

of my past attitude of lack of shame in Your sight

seek Your pardon as it is the attribute of Your magnanimty to pardon;

My Lord, I had no strength to desist from Your disobedience

except when You awakened me for Your love

Hence, I desired, that I become exactly as You want me to be.

I have thus thanked You, for You admitting me into Your generosity

and You have purified my heart from the filth of being inattentive to You.

My Lord, (please) look upon me in the same way as You have looked at one whom You called and he has responded to You

and whom You used him in Your service with Your aid and so he obeys You.

O the Near one who is not far away from those who love Him ardently

O He Who is too magnanimous to deprive one who hopes for His reward!

My Lord, (please) grant me a heart whose longing for You will draw one close to You,

a tongue whose truthfulness ascends towards You,

and a sight whose trueness brings it close to You.

My Lord, certainly he who recognizes You shall never be anonymous,

he who seeks Your shelter shall never be disappointed,

and he to whom You turn to does not fall victim to servility(dejection).

My Lord, certainly he who abides by Your Path shall be enlightened,

and he who resorts in You finds refuge.

Indeed certainly I have taken shelter in You, My Lord! So, (please) do not let down my opinion in Your mercy

and do not exclude me from Your compassion.

My Lord, place me, among those who show servitude to You,

the position of those who (incessantly) hope to increase Your love.

My Lord, (please) inspire me with a mounting passion for Your rememberance,

and (please) with an ardour for the refreshing resort to Your names and the station of Your Holiness.

My Lord, I beseech You in Your name to put me in the abode of those who are obedient to You

and to the righteous sanctuary of Your good pleasure,

for I,certainly I have no power to repel any harm

nor to obtain any benefit for it.

My Lord, I am Your weak and sinful servant—

and Your repenting slave.

So, (please) do not include me amongst those from whom You have turned away Your face

and those who are excluded from Your pardon because of their lapses.

My Lord, (please) grant me absolute devotion to You

and illumine the vision of our hearts by the light of their gaze looking towards You

until the vision of our hearts pierces the curtains of light

to reach the core of supremacy,

and that our souls become suspended by the majesty of Your Holiness.

My Lord, (please) appoint me of those who responded to You when You called them,

and at whom You glanced so he swoons before Your Majesty

So You speak to him secretly and he works for You openly.

My Lord, do not let the dejection of despair overshadow my beautiful opinion

and do not cut my hope from Your generosity

My Lord, if my lapses have made me to fall from Your grace,

So please pardon me for the beauty of my reliance upon You.

My Lord, if my wrongdoings have excluded me from the generosity of Your grace,

So certainly my conviction reassures me of Your generosity and gentleness.

My Lord, if my neglect has lulled me into slumber preventing me from preparing myself for my meeting with You,

So certainly my recognition apprises me of your generous bounties has awakened me.

My Lord, if Your grave chastisement calls me to the Hellfire,

So Your plentious reward has called me to Paradise.

My Lord, so to You I beg and I implore and I request.

I beseech You to bless Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad

and to include me with those who always remember You,

and those who never break their promise to You,

and who do not neglect to thank You,

and who never belittle Your commands.

My Lord, (please do) submerge me in the most blissful lights of Your majesty,

so that I will recognize You

and renounce all else except You,

and that I will be fearful of and careful with You.

O Lord of Majesty and Honor!

May Allah send blessings to Muhammad, His Messenger, and upon his Household the Infallible,

and may countless greetings be to them.