His Supplication upon Completing a Reading of the Qur'an

cationand makest us to follow the tracks of thosewho have taken illumination from its lightand whom expectation has not distracted from works, cutting them off through its delusions' deceptions! 10- O God, bless Muhammad and his Householdand appoint the Qur'anfor us an intimate in the shadows of nightsand a guardian against the instigations of Satanand confusing thoughts, for our feet an obstruction from passing to acts of disobedience, for our tongues a silencer without blightpreventing a plunge into falsehood, for our limbs a restrainer from committing sins, and for the scrutiny of heedfulnessrolled up in heedlessness an unroller, such that Thou attachest to our heartsthe understanding of the Qur'an's wondersand its restraining similitudeswhich immovable mountains in all their soliditywere too weak to carry! 14 11- O God, bless Muhammad and his Householdand through the Qur'an make permanent the rightness of our outward selves, veil the ideas of confusing thoughtsfrom the soundness of our innermost minds, wash away the dirt of our hearts and the ties of our heavy sins, gather our scattered affairs, quench the thirst of our burning heat in the standing place of the presentation to Thee, and clothe us in the robes of securityon the Day of the Greatest Terror at our uprising! 15 12- O God, bless Muhammad and his Householdand through the Qur'an redress our lack - our destitution in poverty -drive toward us the comforts of lifeand an abundance of plentiful provisions, turn aside blameworthy character traitsand base moral qualities, and preserve us from the pit of unbeliefand the motives for hypocrisy, such that the Qur'an may befor us at the resurrection a leaderto Thy good pleasure and Thy gardens, for us in this world a protector against Thy displeasure and transgressing Thy boundsand for what is with Thee a witnessby its declaring lawful the lawfuland its declaring unlawful the unlawful! 13- O God, bless Muhammad and his Householdand through the Qur'an make easy for our souls at deaththe distress of the driving, 16the effort of the moaning, and the succession of the rattling, when soulsreach the throatsand it is said, 'Where is the enchanter? '; 17when the angel of death discloses himself to seize them from behind the veils of unseen things, letting loose at them from the bow of destiniesthe arrows of the terror of lonesome separation, and mixing for them from sudden deatha cup poisoned to the taste; and when departure and release for the hereafter come close to us, works become collars around the necks, 18and the graves become the havenuntil the appointed time of the Day of Encounter! 14-O God, bless Muhammad and his Household, make blessed for us the arrival at the house of decayand the drawn out residence between the layers of the earth, appoint the graves, after separation from this world, the best of our waystations, make roomy for us through Thy mercy the narrowness of our tombs, and disgrace us not among those present at the Resurrection through our ruinous sins! 15- Through the Qur'anhave mercy upon the lowliness of our station at the standing place of presentation to Thee, make firm the slips of our feet during the shaking of the bridge across hell on the day of passage over it, illuminate the darkness of our graves before the Uprising, and deliver us from every distress on the Day of Res