by Imam Ali Zayn-Al-Abideen -Peace be upon him-
In the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the All-compassionate
Praise belongs to God, who allowed none to witness when He created the heavens and the earth, and who took no helper when He authored the spirits!
He has no associate in Divinity and no support in Unity.
Tongues fall silent before the limit of describing Him, intellects fail before the core of knowing Him, tyrants fall low in awe of Him, faces are humbled in fear of Him, and everything mighty yields to His mightiness!
So to Thee belongs praise, again and again, well-measured, continually, methodically!
And may His blessings be upon His Messenger endlessly, His salutation everlastingly, eternally!
O God, make the beginning of this day of mine righteousness, its middle prosperity, and its end success! I seek refuge in Thee from a day whose beginning is fright, whose middle is anxiety, and whose end is pain!
O God, I pray forgiveness from Thee for every vow I have vowed, every promise I have promised, and every pledge I have pledged and then failed to keep for Thee.
I ask Thee concerning the complaints of Thy servants against me: If there is a servant from among Thy servants or a handmaid from among Thy handmaids, who has against me a complaint because I have wronged him in respect to himself, his reputation, his property, his wife or his child, evil words I have spoken about him in his absence, an imposition upon him through inclination, caprice, scorn, zeal, false show, bigotry, whether he be absent or present, alive or dead, such that my hand has fallen short and my capacity has been too narrow to make restitution to him or to annul my obligation to him,
I ask Thee, O He who owns all objects of need - which are granted by His will and hasten to His desire - that Thou blessest Muhammad and the Household of Muhammad, makest [the one I have wronged] satisfied with me in the manner that Thou willest, and givest me mercy from Thee! Forgiveness decreases Thee not and giving injures Thee not, O Most Merciful of the merciful!
O God, give me on every Monday two favours from Thee:
- the felicity to obey Thee at its beginning
- and the favour of Thy forgiveness at its end!
O He who is God and none other than whom grants forgiveness for sins!