Dua Arafat By Imam Hussain a.s.
"Dua of Arafat" by Imam Hussain
a.s
Praise belongs to God whose
decree none may avert, and whose
gift none may prevent.
No fashioner's fashioning is like
His fashioning, and He is the
Generous, the All-embracing.
He brought forth the varieties of
unprecedented creatures and
perfected through His wisdom all
He had fashioned.
Hidden not from Him are
harbingers, nor lost with Him are
deposits.
He repays every fashioner, feathers
the nest of all who are content and
has mercy upon all who humble
themselves.
He sends down benefits and the allencompassing Book in radiant
light.
He hears supplications, averts
afflictions, raises up in degrees, and
knocks down tyrants.
For there is no god other than He,
nothing is equal to Him, "Like Him
there is naught, and He is the
Hearing, the Seeing" (XLII, II),
the subtle, the Aware, and "He is
powerful over all things" (V, I20
etc.).
O God, I make Thee my quest and
bear witness to Thy Lordship,
acknowledging that Thou art my
Lord and to Thee is my return.
Thou originated me by Thy
blessing before I was a thing
remembered. Thou created me
from dust, then gavest me a place
in the loins (of my fathers), secure
from the uncertainty of Fate and
the vagaries of the ages and the
years.
I remained a traveller from loin to
womb in a time immemorial of past
days and bygone centuries. In Thy
tenderness, bounty and goodness
toward me Thou didst not send me
out into the empire of the leaders
of disbelief, those who broke Thy
covenant and cried lies to Thy
messengers.
Rather, Thou sentest me out to
that guidance which had been
foreordained for me, the way which
Thou madest easy for me and in
which Thou nurtured me. And
before that Thou wert kind to me
through Thy gracious fashioning
and abundant blessings.
Thou originated my creation from
a sperm-drop spilled and madest
me to dwell in a threefold gloom
among flesh, blood and skin.
Thou gavest me not to witness my
creation, nor didst Thou entrust
me with anything of my own affair.
Then thou sentest me out into the
world for the guidance that had
been foredained for me, complete
and unimpaired.
Thou watched over me in the
cradle as an infant boy, provided
me with food, wholesome milk, and
turned the hearts of the nursemaids toward me.
Thou entrusted my upbringing to
compassionate mothers, guarded
me from the calamities brought by
the jinn and kept me secure from
excess and lack.
High art Thou, O Merciful! O
Compassionate! Then when I
began to utter speech Thou
completed for me Thy abundant
blessings.
Thou nurtured me more and more
each year until, when my nature
was perfected and my strength
balanced, Thou mad \