Fortress of the Muslim

Hisn al-Muslim 120

Arabic hadith text

اللّهُـمَّ إِنِّي عَبْـدُكَ ابْنُ عَبْـدِكَ ابْنُ أَمَتِـكَ نَاصِيَتِي بِيَـدِكَ مَاضٍ فِيَّ حُكْمُكَ عَدْلٌ فِيَّ قَضَاؤكَ أَسْأَلُـكَ بِكُلِّ اسْمٍ هُوَ لَكَ سَمَّـيْتَ بِهِ نَفْسَكَ أِوْ أَنْزَلْتَـهُ فِي كِتَابِكَ أَوْ عَلَّمْـتَهُ أَحَداً مِنْ خَلْقِـكَ أَوِ اسْتَـأْثَرْتَ بِهِ فِي عِلْمِ الغَيْـبِ عِنْـدَكَ أَنْ تَجْـعَلَ القُرْآنَ رَبِيـعَ قَلْبِـي وَنورَ صَـدْرِي وجَلَاءَ حُـزْنِي وذَهَابَ هَمِّـي

Translation

O Allah, I am Your servant, the son of Your servant and the son of Your female servant. My forelock is in Your hand; Your command over me is carried out, and Your decree concerning me is just. I ask You by every name that belongs to You, with which You named Yourself, or which You sent down in Your Book, taught to one of Your creation, or kept exclusively with You in the knowledge of the unseen, to make the Qur’an the spring of my heart, the light of my chest, the clearing of my grief, and the removal of my anxiety.

Translation notes
  • نَاصِيَتِي بِيَـدِكَ

    The witness adds the explanatory parenthesis ‘i.e. you have control over me’; this gloss is not stated in the Arabic.

    Should the explanatory gloss be kept outside the translated text?