His Supplication in the Morning and Evening

Writers, 6fill our pages for us with our good deeds, and degrade us not before themwith our evil works! 16- O God, appoint for us in each of the day's hoursa share from Thy servants, a portion of giving thanks to Thee, and a truthful witness among Thy angels! 17- O God, bless Muhammad and his Householdand safeguard us from before us and behind us, from our right hands and our left handsand from all our directions, 7a safeguarding that will preserve from disobeying Thee, guide to obeying Thee, and be employed for Thy love! 18- O God, bless Muhammad and his Householdand give us success in this day of ours, this night of ours, and in all our days, to employ the good, stay away from the evil, give thanks for favours, follow the Sunna's norms, avoid innovations, enjoin good behaviour, forbid the disapproved, defend Islam, diminish falsehood and abase it, help the truth and exalt it, guide the misguided, assist the weak, and reach out to the troubled! 19- O God, bless Muhammad and his Householdand make thisthe most fortunate day we have known, the most excellent companion we have accompanied, and the best time in which we have lingered! 20- Place us among the most satisfied of all Thy creatures whom night and day have passed by, the most thankful of themfor the favours Thou hast done, the firmest of them in the laws Thou hast set down in the Shari'a, and the most unyielding of them toward the prohibited actsagainst which Thou hast cautioned! 21- O God, I call Thee to witness- and Thou art sufficient witness -and I call Thy heaven and Thy earth to witnessand Thy angels and Thy other creatures who inhabit themin this my day, this my hour, this my night, and this my resting place, that I bear witness that Thou art God, other than whom there is no god, Upholding justice, Equitable in judgement, Clement to the servants, 8Master of the kingdom, 9Compassionate to the creatures, 22- and that Muhammad is Thy servant and Thy messenger, Thy chosen from among Thy creatures. Thou didst charge him with Thy messageand he delivered it; Thou didst command him to counsel his community and he counselled it. 23- O God, so bless Muhammad and his Household more than Thou hast blessed any of Thy creatures! Give him for our sake the best Thou hast given any of Thy servants, and repay him on our behalf better and more generously than Thou hast repaid any of Thy prophets on behalf of his community! 24- Thou art All-kind with immensity, the Forgiver of the great, and Thou art more merciful than every possessor of mercy! So bless Muhammad and his Household, the good, the pure, the chosen, the most distinguished!