His Supplication in Seeking Pardon and Mercy

1- O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, break my passion for every unlawful thing, take away my craving for any sin, and bar me from harming any believer, male or female, and any Muslim, male or female! 2- O God, if any of Thy servants should harm me in what Thou hast forbiddenor violate me in what Thou hast interdicted, and if he should pass into death with my complaintor I come to have a complaint against him while he is alive, forgive him what he did to meand pardon him that through which he turned his back on me! Inquire not from him about what he committed toward meand expose him not through what he earned by me! Make my open-handedness in pardoning such servantsand my contribution in charity toward themthe purest charity of the charitableand the highest gift of those seeking nearness to Thee! 3- Recompense me for my pardoning them with Thy pardonand for my supplicating for them with Thy mercyso that each one of us may gain felicity through Thy bountyand each may attain deliverance through Thy kindness! 4- O God, if there is a servant from among Thy servants whoman ill visits on my account, a harm touches from my direction, or a wrong overtakes through me or because of me, and should I fail to take care of his rightor go before him [in death] with his complaint, bless Muhammad and his Household, satisfy him toward me through Thy wealth, and give him his full right from Thyself! 5- Then protect me from what Thy decision mandatesand save me from what Thy justice decides, for my strength cannot bear Thy vengeanceand my power cannot stand up to Thy displeasure! If Thou recompensest me with the right, Thou wilt destroy me, and if Thou dost not shield me in Thy mercy, Thou wilt lay me waste. 6- O God, I ask Thee to grant, my God, that whose giving will not decrease Thee, and I ask Thee to carrythat whose carrying will not weigh Thee down: 7- My God, I ask Thee to give my soul, which Thou didst not create to keep Thyself from evilnor to find the way to profit. No, Thou brought it forthto demonstrate Thy power over its likeand to provide an argument against its similar. 8- I ask Thee to carry those of my sins whose carrying weighs me downand I seek help from Thee in that whose heaviness oppresses me. 9- So bless Muhammad and his Household, give to me my soul in spite of its wrongdoing, 1and appoint Thy mercy to carry