I testify there is no deity but Allah;
Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; Jesus is the messenger of Allah, and the Holy Quran is Allah’s last
revelation to mankind.
“He is Allah, the one and only; Allah,
the Eternal, Absolute; He begets not, nor is He begotten; and there is none
like Him.” (112:1-4)
“Allah, there is no deity except Him, the
Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence. Neither drowsiness overtakes Him
nor sleep. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the
earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows
what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, but they do not comprehend
any of His knowledge except for what He wills. His throne extends over the
heavens and the earth; it does not weary Him to preserve them both. And He is
the Most High, the Most Great.” (2:255)
“He is Allah: there is no other god other
than Him. It is He who knows what is
hidden as well as what is in the open; He is the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of
Mercy.
“He is Allah: there is no other god other
than Him, the Controller, the Holy One, Source of Peace, Granter of Security,
Guardian over all, the Almighty, the Compeller, the Truly Great; Exalted is
Allah above whatever they associate with Him.
“He is Allah, the Creator, the Originator,
the Fashioner; to Him belong the best names. Everything in the heavens and
earth glorifies Him. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.” (59:22-24)
Glory to you Allah and praise; blessed is
your name and Exalted is your Majesty.
There is none worthy of worship but You.
“Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; and
those who are with him are strong against Unbelievers, (but) compassionate
amongst each other. You see them bow and prostrate themselves (in prayer),
seeking Grace from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure. On their faces are their
marks, (being) the traces of their prostration. This is their similitude in the
Torah; and their similitude in the Gospel is like a seed, which sends forth its
blade, then makes it strong; it then becomes thick, and it stands on its own
stem, (filling) the sowers with wonder and delight. As a result, it fills the
Unbelievers with rage at them. Allah has promised those among them who believe
and do righteous deeds forgiveness, and a great Reward.” (48:29)
“He has sent down upon you, [O Muhammad],
the Book in truth, confirming what was before it. And He revealed the Torah and
the Gospel before, as guidance for the people. And He revealed the Quran.”
(3:3-4)
Jesus is a messenger of Allah. “We sent Jesus, son of Mary, in their
footsteps, to confirm the Torah that had been sent before him: We gave him the Gospel with guidance, light
and confirmation of the Torah already revealed – a guide and lesson for those
who take heed of Allah.” (5:46)
The Quran is Allah’s last revelation to
mankind. “This is the Book about which
there is no doubt, a guidance for those conscious of Allah. Who believe in the unseen, establish prayer,
and spend out of what We have provided for them, And who believe in what has
been revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what was revealed before you, and of
the Hereafter they are certain [in faith].
Those are upon [right] guidance from their Lord, and it is those who are
the successful.” (2:2-5)
“Nor
could this Quran have been devised by anyone other than Allah. It is a confirmation of what was revealed
before it and an explanation of Scripture.
Let there be no doubt about it, it is from the Lord of the Worlds.”
(10:37)
“Praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the
worlds, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver of Mercy, Master of the Day of
Judgment. It is You we worship; it is
You we ask for help. Guide us to the
straight path: the path of those You
have blessed, those who incur no anger and who have not gone astray.” (1:2-7)
O Allah!
You are my Lord. There is no
deity worthy of worship except you. You
have created me and I am your servant.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Tonight shower Your infinite mercy upon us,
granting everyone who is present, and our loved ones, the best in this world
and the best in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! I ask You make this month of Ramadan a
blessing for us. I fasted for Your sake
during the long summer days and I stood nights sacrificing my sleep reaching
out to You. Inshallah, my actions will weigh
favorably on my scale when I stand before You on judgment day.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Accept my fasting, accept my Wudhu, accept
every Adhan I heard, accept every Takbir, every Rukuu, every Sujuud, every Tashah-hud, every Tasliim, my prayers, every
letter of the Quran that I have read, recited and listened to, accept it from
all of us gathered here tonight.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Ease the affliction of the people in this
world, ease the burden for the people of Gaza, ease the burden for the people
of Palestine, ease the burden for the people of Syria, ease the burden for the
people of Iraq, ease the burden for the people in Afghanistan, ease the burden
for the people of Pakistan, ease the burden for the Muslims in Burma, Africa
and China, heal the wounds of the survivors, provide comfort to those who lost
family and friends in wars throughout the world. Grant the deceased, especially the children
and their families, the best place in the hereafter. “Seek refuge in Allah: He is your protector, an excellent
protector.” (22:78)
O Allah, hear my prayer! Lift the veil over the hearts and minds of
the oppressors throughout the world, especially in Gaza and Palestine, enlightened
them with Your wisdom, guide them towards repentance and away from repression
and injustice.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Ease the burden of our brothers and sisters
and children who are exploited for their labor, reward their uncompensated
labor tenfold in the hereafter. “Seek
refuge in Allah: He is your protector,
an excellent protector.” (22:78)
O Allah, hear my prayer! Lift the veil over the hearts and minds of
those who abuse the poor and exploit their labor, enlightened them with Your
wisdom, guide them towards repentance and away from exploitation and injustice.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Ease the burden victims of human trafficking,
heal their trauma and return them back to their families and homeland. “Seek refuge in Allah: He is your protector, an excellent
protector.” (22:78)
O Allah, hear my prayer! Lift the veil over the hearts and minds of
the human traffickers, enlightened them with your wisdom, guide them towards
repentance and away from exploitation and injustice.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Ease the burden for the children fleeing
violence in Central America and guide them to safety. “Seek refuge in Allah: He is your protector, an excellent
protector.” (22:78)
O Allah, hear my prayer! Lift the veil over the hearts and minds of
Americans who perceive these children as a threat to the United States, who
talk about these children like they are vermin carrying disease and pestilence,
enlightened them with Your wisdom, guide them towards repentance and away from
prejudice.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Grant refuge to those who are forced to flee
their homes because of religious persecution.
Ease their burden and guide them to safety. “Seek refuge in Allah: He is your protector, an excellent
protector.” (22:78)
O Allah, hear my prayer! Lift the veil over the hearts and minds of
those who go against Your word, ignoring Your command, “There is no compulsion
in religion.”
O Allah, hear my prayer! Our souls are in
pain witnessing the suffering in this world, send Your peace to this world, and
instill us with hope for Your mercy. We
“seek refuge in Allah: He is [our]
protector, an excellent protector.”
(22:78)
O Allah, hear my prayer! You taught me, “Allah does not love the
unfaithful or the ungrateful.” Therefore
I acknowledge before You all the blessings You have bestowed upon me.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank you for the life You have given
me. You have blessed me with a loving
family, good friends, intelligence, and good health.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for bestowing me with the inborn knowledge
of Tawhid. Thank You for guiding me
towards Islam, giving me the wisdom to accept truth and reject falsehood.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for the loving and supportive
Muslim community who embraced me. Grant
them the best in this world and the best in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for putting me in a place where I’m
able to wait for a drink of water and for something to eat since there are
people, especially children, throughout this world who don’t share my
luxury. You have blessed me by granting me
a life free from hardship, free from deprivation, free from violence, free from
poverty.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for introducing into my life Sheikh Muhammad Al Hayek, Imam Khalid Latif and David Coolidge. Thank You for their guidance and the
knowledge You bestowed upon them. Please
continue blessing these men and their families with good health, shield them
from hardship, and reward them in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank you for Haafiz Ismail Atik Sayeed, Haafiz Ebadur Rahman and Sheikh Hasan who led Salatul Taraweeh during this blessed month of Ramadan. Grant them, and everyone throughout the world who led Salatul Taraweeh, the best in this world and reward them in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for Omar who taught me Arabic so
that I’m able to recite the Quran in the language it was revealed. Grant him the best of this world and the best
in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for removing my mother’s anger and
allowing her to accept our family’s love.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for giving me another year with my
mother. Although she’s not able to communicate
with me anymore and I miss our conversations and I miss her cooking, at least
my mother is not suffering. Please
prevent future hardship. Forgive my
mother’s sins as You taught me to forgive her transgressions against me. Grant my mother the best in this world and
the best in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Grant me the strength and patience to
persevere on my mother’s behalf. Grant
me the understanding to put her needs ahead of my own.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Please continue to give my father and Nilza
the patience and strength to persevere through my mother’s illness. Ease their suffering, grant them the best in
this world and reward them in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Please guide Eneida to good mental health, bestow
upon her enlightenment so that she may seek help. I ask You because her burden is too great to
bear on her own. Grant her the best in
this world and the best in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for Maria and Ide who provide my
mother with good care and protect them from hardship. Grant them the best in this world and reward
their efforts tenfold in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for putting me in the position to
help Gil in the aftermath of the death of his mother. He has persevered through great
hardship. Protect him and him family
from hardship. Grant him, his wife and
his two children the best in this world and the best in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Helping Gil, I tried to follow the example of
our beloved prophet Muhammad (SAW) and acted in Your name, the most
compassionate, the most merciful.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Protect my extended family from hardship and
grant them the best in this world and the best in the hereafter. Inshallah I will meet again with members of
my extended family, those living and deceased, again in Your presence.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for Sandra, my best friend. Protect her, her daughter Lauren, her mother
and her family from hardship. Grant her
and her family the best in this world and the best in the hereafter. Inshallah, we will meet again in Your
presence.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for all my friends who are too numerous to mention.
Protect them from hardship; provide them with good health, grant them
best in this world and the best in the hereafter. Inshallah we will meet again in Your presence.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for all my teachers. Please reward their work tenfold. Grant them the best in this world and the best in the hereafter. Inshallah we will meet again in Your presence.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Thank You for all the doctors who have treated me. Grant them the best in this
world and the best in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! Grant me the strength to pursue social
justice. Grant me wisdom so that I can
advocate for those who do not have a voice.
O Allah, hear my prayer! I am faithful to my covenant and my promise
to You as much as I can.
O Allah, hear my prayer! I seek refuge with You from all the sins I
have committed. I confess to You all my
sins. Forgive my sins. Nobody can forgive sins except You.
O Allah, hear my prayer! I seek protection from my anger and rage,
from arrogance, from temptation, from silence in the face of injustice, from prejudging
others, from badmouthing, from fear and from my shortcomings. Grant me the patience and perseverance to
overcome my weaknesses so that I may be rewarded with the best of this world
and the best in the hereafter.
O Allah, hear my prayer! “I seek Your protection from misery and
grief, from weakness and laziness and from the burden of loans and from things
that will make others overcome me.” (Al Bukhari, Muslim)
O Allah, hear my prayer! Give me the strength to forgive those who
have wronged, slandered, badmouthed and betrayed me.
O Allah, hear my prayer! I have wronged my own soul. If you do not forgive me and do not bestow
upon me Your mercy I shall certainly be lost. (7:23)
O Allah, hear my prayer! Our beloved prophet Muhammad (SAW) said, “O
son of Adam, I forgive you as long as you pray to Me and hope for My
forgiveness, whatever sins you have committed.
O son of Adam, I do not care if your sins reach the height of heaven,
then you ask for My forgiveness, I would forgive you. O son of Adam, if you come to Me with an
earth load of sins, and meet Me associating nothing to me, I would match it
with an earth load of forgiveness.” (At Tirmidhi)
O Allah, hear my prayer! You know what is in my heart. I have not associated any partners with
You. You are Al Khaliq, Al Malik, Al
Quddus, Al Aziz, Al Bari, Al Qahhar, Al Razzaq, Al Alim, Al Sami, Al Basir, Al
Hakam, Al Adl, Al Khabir, Al Halim, Al Azim, Al Hafiz, Al Muqit, Al Raqib, Al
Mujib, Al Hakim, Al Wadud, Al Majid, Al Shahid, Al Haqq, Al Waliyy, Al Hamid,
Al Muhiyy, Al Qayyum, Al Wahid, Al Samad, Al Qadir, Al Barr, Al Tawwab, Al
Muqsit, Al Ghani, Al Mughni, Al Nur, Al Hadi, Al Rashid, Al Awwal, and Al
Akhir.
“Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget or fall into
error. Our Lord! Lay on us a burden like that which you did
lay on those before us. Our Lord, Lay
not on us a burden greater than we have the strength to bear. Blot out our sins and grant us
forgiveness. Have mercy on us. You are our Protector. Help us against those who stand against
faith.” (2:286)
O Allah, hear my prayer! I supplicate to You because You are most
compassionate, most Merciful.
