1. He [mursal = trasmitter] said: “Abū ‘Abdillāh (‘a.s.) used to supplicate thus when reading the Book of Allāh, to Whom belong Might and Majesty: ‘O Allāh! Our Lord! All praise is due to You – You are the Only One with power and firm authority. And all praise is due to You – You are the Exalted with might and grandeur above the heavens and the Great Throne. Our Lord! All praise is due to You – You suffice with Your knowledge whereas all those who possess knowledge need You. Our Lord! All praise is due to You, O revealer of signs and the Great Reminder. Our Lord! All praise be to You for what You have taught us of wisdom and the Manifest, Glorious Qur’ān. O Allāh, You taught it to us before we sought to learn it and selected us before we sought to benefit from it. O Allāh, if this was a blessing from You and a bounty, a generosity, a kindness to us, a mercy upon us and a favour to us without our having strived or attempted [to acquire it] or exerted [any effort], then O Allāh make dear to us its beautiful recitation, the memorization of its verses, belief in its allegorical verses, action upon its clear verses, insight into its esoteric meanings, guidance in understanding its application and illumination from its light. “’O Allāh, just as You have revealed it to be a cure for Your friends, a misery for Your enemies, a blindness for the people who disobey You and a light for those who obey You, O Allāh make it [also] a fortress for us from Your chastisement, a sanctuary from Your wrath, a barrier from Your disobedience, a protection from Your anger, a guide towards Your obedience, and a light on the day we meet You by which we may be get illumination among Your creation, cross over Your bridge and get guidance to Your Paradise. O Allāh, we seek refuge with You from wretchedness in bearing it [without reading it], blindness from its knowledge, transgressing its commands, overstepping its limits and falling short of its rights. O Allāh, help us bear its heaviness, make us deserving of its reward, inspire us to be grateful for it, and make us care for it and preserve it. O Allāh, assist us to follow it in what it describes as lawful, eschew what it classifies as forbidden, establish its boundaries and fulfill its obligations. “’O Allāh grant us joy in its recitation, energy in establishing it, fear [of You] in its recital and strength in employing it during the darkness of night and light of day. O Allāh, enable us to suffice with little sleep and wake us during the night from the slumber of the sleepers, and awaken us during the moments wherein supplication is accepted from the drowsiness of the somnolent. O Allāh, make our hearts astute in encountering its wonders that never cease, delighted when we repeat it, take lessons when we review it, and gain clear benefit when we seek its understanding. O Allāh, we seek refuge with You from its relegation in our hearts, from leaving it aside as we sleep and from casting it behind our backs. We seek refuge with You from the hardness of our hearts towards Your advice for us in it. O Allāh, benefit us with what You have stated in Your verses and remind us with what You have mentioned of parables, and through its interpretation, cover up our sins and multiply our reward; and raise our station through it, and receive us with glad tidings after we die. O Allāh, make it a provision that strengthens us as we stand beforeYou, and a clear path that we can follow to reach You, and a beneficial knowledge by which we may express gratitude for Your blessings, and a true humility by which we may glorify Your names, for indeed You have taken it as a proof against us and have severed our excuse by it. You have made it such a blessing for us that our gratitude for it always falls short. O Allāh, make it a guardian for us that keeps us steadfast from lapses, a guide towards the best of actions, a guiding helper that protects us from straying and a supporter that strengthens us against ennui until it makes us attain the loftiest of [our] hopes. “’O Allāh, make it a intercessor for us on the Day of Meeting, and a weapon on the Day of Elevation, and a witness for us on the Day of Judgement, and a light on the Day of Darkness – the day when there is no earth and no sky, the day when every striver will be rewarded for what he strove. O Allāh, make it a quenching for us on the Day of Thirst, and a [means of] success for us on the Day of Recompense from the blazing Fire which has little compassion for those who burn in its inferno. O Allāh, make it an evidence for us before all the people on the day when the inhabitants of the earth and the heavens are gathered. O Allāh, grant us the station of the martyrs, the life of the felicitous, and the company of the Prophets ‒ indeed You hear all supplications.’”