Dua-e-Ahad

Imam Sadiq (a.s) narrates that “one who recites this supplication for 40 mornings; he will be accounted amongst the helpers of Imam Mahdi (a.t.f.s). And if he happens to die before the reappearance of Imam Mahdi (a.t.f.s), Allah will raise him up from his rave so that he may assist the holy Imam (a.t.f.s).For every word that he recites in this supplication, Allah will grant him 1000 good deeds and will erase from his scroll of deeds 1000 sins”.

As the title suggests, this supplication is of allegiance (ahad) to the holy Imam (a.t.f.s). Its recitation every morning ensures the renewal of this covenant. The reciter finds himself under the leadership of Imam (a.t.f.s).The reciter beseeches All to include him among the helpers and aides of Imam (a.t.f.s) and to grant him the opportunity to attain martyrdom in his presence. Also, he requests Allah that should he die before the reappearance of Imam (a.t.f.s). Allah should raise him up from his grave so that he may assist him (a.t.f.s) in his mission.

There is a fervent appeal to Allah to grant him the honour of seeing Imam (a.t.f.s). In this there is also an acknowledgement that the difficulties of this nation can be solved only by the reappearance of Imam (a.t.f.s) and that believers see it as being close while others deem it to be distant.






Transliteration

ALLAHUMMA RABBAN-NOORIL ADHWEEMI WA RABBAL QURSIYYIR-RAFEE'I WA RABBIL BAHRIL MASJOORI WA MUNZILAT-TAWRAATI WAL INJEELI WAZ-ZABOORI, WA RABBADH-DHILLI WAL HAROORI, WA MUNZILAL QUR'AANIL ADHWEEMI WA RABBAL MALAAIKATIL MUQARRABEEN WAL AMBIYAAI WAL MURSALEEN. ALLAAHUMMA INNEE AS' ALUKA BI WAJ'HIKAL KAREEM WA BI NOORI WAJHIKAL MUNEERI WA MULKIKAL QADEEMI YAA HAYYU YAA QAYYOOMU AS'ALUKA BISMIKAL-LADHEE ASHRAKAT BIHIS-SAMAAWAATU WAL ARDHOONA WA BISMIKAL-LADHEE YASLAHU BIHIL AWWALOON WAL AAKHIROON YAA HAYYAN QABLA KULLI HAYYIN WA YAA HAYYAN BA'ADA KULLI HAYYIN WA YAA HAYYAN HEENA LAA HAYYA YAA MUHYIYAL MAWTA WA MUMEETATAL AHYAA'I YAA HAYYU LAA ILAAHA ILLA ANTA . ALLAAHUMMA BALLIGH MAWLAANAL IMAAMAL HAADIYAL MAHDIYYAL QAAIMA BI AMRIKA SWALAWAATULLAAHI ALAYHI WA ALAA AABAAIHIT-TWAAHIREEN AN JAMEE'IL MU'MINEENA WAL MU'MINAATI FI MASHAARIKIL ARDHI WA MAGHAARIBIHAA, SAHLIHAA WA JABALIHAA, BARRIHAA WA BAHRIHAA, WA ANNEE WA AN WAALIDAYYA, MINAS-SWALAWAATI ZINATA ARSHILLAAHI WA MIDAADA KALIMAATIHI, WAMAA AHSWAAHU ILMUHU WA AHAATWA BIHI KITAABUHU, ALLAAHUMMA INNEE UJADDIDU LAHOO FI SWABEEHATI YAWMI HAADHA, WAMAA ISHTU MIN AYYAAMI, AHDAN WA AQDAN WA BAY'ATAN LAHU FI UNUQEE LAA AHOOLU ANHA WALAA AZOOLU ABADAN. ALLAAHUMMAJ'ALNEE MINANSWAAARIHI WA A'AWAANIHI WADH-DHAABBEENA ANHU, WAL MUSAARI'EENA ILAYHI FI QADHAAI HAWAAIJIHI WAL MUM'TATHILEENA LI AWAAMIRIHI WAL MUHAA-MEENA ANHU, WAS-SAABIQEENA ILAA IRAADATIHI WAL MUSTASH'HADEENA BAYNA YADAYHI. ALLAAHUMMA IN HAALA BAYNI WA BAYNAHUL MAWTUL-LADHEE JA'ALTAHU ALAA IBAADIK HATMAN MAQDHIYYAN, FA AKHRIJNI MIN QABREE MU'TAZIRAN, KAFANEE SHAAHIRAN, SWAYFEE MUJARRIDAN, QANAATEE MULABBIYAN, DA'AWATAD-DAAII FIL HAADHIRI WAL BAADEE. ALLAAHUMA ARINIT-TWAL'ATAR-RASHEEDATA, WAL GHURRATAL HAMEEDATA, WAQHUL NAADHIRI BI NADHRATIN MINNEE ILAYHI, WA AJJIL FARAJAHU,WA SAHHIL MAKHRAJAHU, WA AWSI'A MAN'HAJAHU, WA ANFIDH AMRAHU, WASHDUD AZRAHU WA'MURILLAA-HUMMA BIHI BILAADAK, WA AHYI BIHI IBAADAK, FA INNAKA QULTA WA QAWLUKAL HAQQU DHWAHRAL FASAADU FIL BARRI WAL BAHRI, BIMAA KASABAT AYDINNAASI, FA AZHIRI-LLAAHUMMA LANAA WALIYYIK BINTI NABIYYIKAL MUSAMMA, BISMI RASOOLIK, HATTAA LAA YADHFARA BI SHAY'IN MINAL BAATWILI ILLAA MAZZAQAHU, WA YUHIQQAL HAQQA, WA YUHAQQIQAHU WAJ'ALHU ALLAAHUMMA MAFZA'AN LI MADHLOOMI IBAADIK WA NAASWIRAN LIMAN LAA YAJIDU LAHU NAASWIRAN GHAYRAK, WA MUJADDIDAN LIMA UTTWILA MIN AHKAAMI KITAABIK, WA MUSHAYYIDAN LIMAA WARADA MIN A'ALAAMI DEENIK,WA SUNANI NABIYYIK SWALLALLAAHU ALAYHI WA AALIHI WAJ'ALHU . ALLAAHUMMA MIMMAN HASSWANTAHU MIN BA'ASIL MU'TADEEN, ALLAAHUMMA WA SURRA NABIYYIK MUHAMMADIN SWALLALLAAHU ALAYHI WA AALIHI, BI RU'AYATIHI WAMAN TABIAHU ALAA DA'AWATIHI, WARHAMISTIKAANTINA BA'ADAHU, ALLAAHUMAKSHIF HAADHIHIL GHUMMATA AN HAADHIHIL UMMATAI, BI HUDHOORIHI WA AJJIL LANAA DHUHOORAHU, INNAHUM YARAWNAHU BAEEDAN WA NARAAHU QAREEBAN BI RAHMATIK YAA ARHAMAR-RAAHIMEEN.

THEN SAY 3 TIMES:

AL-AJAL AL-AJAL YAA SWAAHIBUZZAMAAN, - EACH TIME STRIKING SLOWLY YOUR RIGHT HAND ON THE THIGH.

O Allah! Lord of the Great Light, Lord of the Elevated Throne, Lord of the tumultuous seas, and the revealer of the Tawrah, Injeel, and Zaboor, Lord of the shadows and the warmths, And the revealer of the Great Quran. Lord of the proximate angels and prophets and messengers. O Allah I beseech thee, for the sake of Your Nobel Visage. And for the sake of Your Enlightening Visage, and Your ever existing kingdom. O Ever Living! O Controller! I beseech Thee in Your Name which lits the heavens and the earths; and in Your Name, by which the ancient and the latter ones become upright. O Ever living who has before every living being. O Ever Living Who shall (exist) after every living being. O Ever Living Who existed when there was no life. O Giver of life to dead. O One Who causes death to the living one. O Ever Living. There is no god except Thou. O Allah send our master the leader, the guide, the guided, the upriser with Your command. Blessings of Allah be on him and his pure forefathers from all the believing men and believing women. In the easts of the earth and it's wests, in its plains and its mountains, its lands and its seas, from me and my parents. Blessings, which are the weight of Allah's throne and ink of His words, and whatever His knowledge enumerates and His book encompases. O Allah renew for him my covenant, pledge and allegiance on my neck in the morning of this day of mine and whatever days (of my life) I live. I shall never turn away from it nor let it ever vanish. O Allah appoint me among his helpers, aides, and his protectors. Those who hasten to fulfill his commands and obey his orders. Those who are his supporters and compete with each other to (fulfill) his intention and seek martyrdom in his presence. O Allah! If death occurs between me and him (before the reappearance) (death) which you have made obligatory and decreed for your servants, then raise me from my grave, wrapped in my shroud, my sword unsheathed, my spear bared, answering the call of the caller in cities as well as deserts. O Allah! Show me the rightly guided face of (Imam a.s.), the praiseworthy moon (referring to the face of Imam a.s.) and enlighten my vision by looking at him. And hasten his reappearance, make his arrival smooth, vasten his path, make me tread on his way and implement his authority and strengthen his back. O Allah inhabit Your cities through him and give life to Your servants due to him for surely You have said and Your word is truth, "Corruption will become rampant in land and on sea because of the evil which men's hand have earned" Then O Allah manifest for us Your slave and the son of Your Prophet's daughter, whose name is the same as that of Your messenger, so that nothing from falsehood is victorious except that he tears them (falsehood) to pieces, establishes the truth and the truth confirms him. And O Allah! Appoint him as a refuge for Your oppressed servants and a helper for the one who does not find any helper for himself except You and the renewer of all the laws of Your book which have been tampered with and the rebuilder of the science of Your religion and the traditions of Your Prophet (peace of Allah be on him and his progeny) and O Allah! make him among those whom you have protected from the evils of the adversaries. O Allah! and provide joy to Your Prophet Mohammed (peace be on him and his progeny) by his vision and (the vision of) the one who follows him on his call and have mercy on our poverty after his arrival O Allah remove his sorrow (of occultation) from this nation with his presence and hasten for us his reappearance. They (the disbelievers) consider it to be distant while we consider it to be near. For the sake of Your mercy, O the most Merciful of all Mercifuls.

Then one should gently strike his right thigh with his palm and say.

Hasten! Hasten! O my Master, O Master of the era.

Dua Ahad: One of the supplications for renewing the allegiance to Imam Zamana (a.s.) is Dua Ahad. Regarding this Dua, Imam Sadiq (a.s.) says: One who recites this Dua for forty days, will be included among the helpers of Hazrat Qaim (a.s.). If he dies before reappearance, the Almighty Allah will make him alive so that he can fight Jihad alongside him (Imam Mahdi a.f.t.s.). For every word of this Dua a thousand Hasanat (good deeds) are written in the scroll of his deeds and one thousand sins shall be erased. The Dua is as follows:

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ. اَللّٰهُمَّ رَبَّ النُّورِ الْعَظِيمِ وَ رَبَّ الْكُرْسِيِّ الرَّفِيعِ وَ رَبَّ الْبَحْرِ الْمَسْجُورِ وَ مُنْزِلَ التَّوْرَاةِ وَ الْإِنْجِيلِ وَ الزَّبُورِ وَ رَبَّ الظِّلِّ وَ الْحَرُورِ وَ مُنْزِلَ الْقُرْآنِ الْعَظِيمِ وَ رَبَّ الْمَلَائِكَةِ الْمُقَرَّبِينَ وَ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ وَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ اَللّٰهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِوَجْهِكَ الْكَرِيمِ وَ بِنُورِ وَجْهِكَ الْمُنِيرِ وَ مُلْكِكَ الْقَدِيمِ يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ أَسْأَلُكَ بِاسْمِكَ الَّذِي أَشْرَقَتْ بِهِ السَّمَاوَاتُ وَ الْأَرَضُونَ وَ بِاسْمِكَ الَّذِيْ يَصْلَحُ بِهِ الْاَوَّلُوْنَ وَ الْآخِرُوْنَ يَا حَيُّ قَبْلَ كُلِّ حَيٍّ يَا حَيُّ بَعْدَ كُلِّ حَيٍّ يَا حَيُّ حِيْنَ لاَ حَيٍّ يَا مُحْيِيَ الْمُوْتٰي وَ مُمِيْتَ الْاَحْيَاءِ يَا حَيُّ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ اَللّٰهُمَّ بَلِّغْ مَوْلَانَا الْإِمَامَ الْهَادِيَ الْمَهْدِيَّ الْقَائِمَ بِأَمْرِكَ صَلَوَاتُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ وَ عَلَى آبَائِهِ الطَّاهِرِينَ عَنِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ فِي مَشَارِقِ الْأَرْضِ وَ مَغَارِبِهَا سَهْلِهَا وَ جَبَلِهَا بَرِّهَا وَ بَحْرِهَا وَ عَنِّي وَ عَنْ وَالِدَيَّ مِنَ الصَّلَوَاتِ زِنَةَ عَرْشِ اللَّهِ وَ مِدَادَ كَلِمَاتِهِ وَ مَا أَحْصَاهُ عِلْمُهٗ وَ أَحَاطَ بِهٖ كِتَابُهٗ اَللّٰهُمَّ إِنِّي أُجَدِّدُ لَهٗ فِي صَبِيحَةِ يَوْمِي هٰذَا وَ مَا عِشْتُ مِنْ أَيَّامِي عَهْداً وَ عَقْداً وَ بَيْعَةً لَهٗ فِي عُنُقِي لَا أَحُولُ عَنْهَا وَ لَا أَزُولُ أَبَداً اَللّٰهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِنْ أَنْصَارِهِ وَ أَعْوَانِهِ وَ الذَّابِّينَ عَنْهُ وَ الْمُسَارِعِينَ إِلَيْهِ فِي قَضَاءِ حَوَائِجِهِ وَ الْمُمْتَثِلِيْنَ لِاَوَامِرِهٖ وَ نَوَاهِيْهِ الْمُحَامِينَ عَنْهُ وَ السَّابِقِينَ إِلَى إِرَادَتِهِ وَ الْمُسْتَشْهَدِينَ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ اَللّٰهُمَّ إِنْ حَالَ بَيْنِي وَ بَيْنَهُ الْمَوْتُ الَّذِي جَعَلْتَهُ عَلَى عِبَادِكَ حَتْماً فَأَخْرِجْنِي مِنْ قَبْرِي مُؤْتَزِراً كَفَنِي شَاهِراً سَيْفِي مُجَرِّداً قَنَاتِي مُلَبِّياً دَعْوَةَ الدَّاعِي فِي الْحَاضِرِ وَ الْبَادِي اَللّٰهُمَّ أَرِنِي الطَّلْعَةَ الرَّشِيدَةَ وَ الْغُرَّةَ الْحَمِيدَةَ وَ اكْحُلْ نَاظِرِي بِنَظْرَةٍ مِنِّي إِلَيْهِ وَ عَجِّلْ فَرَجَهُ وَ سَهِّلْ مَخْرَجَهُ وَ أَوْسِعْ مَنْهَجَهُ وَ اسْلُكْ بِي مَحَجَّتَهُ فَأَنْفِذْ أَمْرَهُ وَ اشْدُدْ أَزْرَهُ وَ اعْمُرِ اَللّٰهُمَّ بِهٖ بِلَادَكَ وَ أَحْيِ بِهٖ عِبَادَكَ فَإِنَّكَ قُلْتَ وَ قَوْلُكَ الْحَقُّ ظَهَرَ الْفَسادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَ الْبَحْرِ بِما كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ فَأَظْهِرِ اَللّٰهُمَّ لَنَا وَلِيَّكَ وَ ابْنَ وَلِيِّكَ وَ ابْنَ بِنْتِ نَبِيِّكَ الْمُسَمَّى بِاسْمِ رَسُولِكَ ﷺحَتَّى لَا يَظْفَرَ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ مِنَ الْبَاطِلِ إِلَّا مَزَّقَهُ وَ يُحِقَّ الْحَقَّ وَ يُحَقِّقَهُ وَ اجْعَلْهُ اَللّٰهُمَّ مَفْزَعاً لِمَظْلُومِ عِبَادِكَ وَ نَاصِراً لِمَنْ لَا يَجِدُ لَهٗ نَاصِراً غَيْرَكَ وَ مُجَدِّداً لِمَا عُطِّلَ مِنْ أَحْكَامِ كِتَابِكَ وَ مُشَيِّداً لِمَا وَرَدَ مِنْ أَعْلَامِ دِينِكَ وَ سُنَنِ نَبِيِّكَ ﷺ وَ اجْعَلْهُ اللّٰهُمَّ مِمَّنْ حَصَّنْتَهُ مِنْ بَأْسِ الْمُعْتَدِينَ اَللّٰهُمَّ وَ سُرَّ نَبِيَّكَ مُحَمَّداً ﷺ بِرُؤْيَتِهِ وَ مَنْ تَبِعَهُ عَلَى دَعْوَتِهِ وَ ارْحَمِ اسْتِكَانَتَنَا بَعْدَهُ اَللّٰهُمَّ اكْشِفْ هٰذِهِ الْغُمَّةَ عَنِ الْأُمَّةِ بِحُضُورِهِ وَ عَجِّلْ لَنَا ظُهُورَهُ إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُ بَعِيداً وَ نَراهُ قَرِيباً بِرَحْمَتِكَ يَا أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِينَ.[1]
In some traditional reports it is mentioned that after this hit your hand on your thigh and say thrice:

الْعَجَلَ الْعَجَلَ يَا مَوْلَايَ يَا صَاحِبَ الزَّمَانِ.