Prayer for
the Dead
O my God! This is Thy servant and the son of Thy
servant who hath believed in Thee and in Thy signs,
and set his face towards Thee, wholly detached from
all except Thee. Thou art, verily, of those who show
mercy the most merciful.
Deal with him, O Thou Who forgivest the sins of men
and concealest their faults, as beseemeth the heaven
of Thy bounty and the ocean of Thy grace. Grant him
admission within the precincts of Thy transcendent
mercy that was before the foundation of earth and
heaven. There is no God but Thee, the Ever-Forgiving,
the Most Generous.
Let him, then, repeat six
times the greeting "Allah-u-Abha", and
then repeat nineteen times each of the following
verses:
We
all, verily, worship God.
We all, verily, bow
down before God.
We all, verily, are
devoted unto God.
We all, verily, give
praise unto God.
We
all, verily, yield thanks unto God.
We
all, verily, are patient in God.
(If
the dead be a woman, let him say: This is Thy
handmaiden and the daughter of Thy handmaiden, etc...)
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