Contents: The closing Chapter of supplications for the baby is prayer number 25 from the valuable book, as Sahifah al-Kamilah as-Sajjadiyah which is a compilation of prayers and supplications for various circumstances written by Imam Ali Ibn Al-Husayn Zayn Al-’Abidin, the fourth Imam.

This prayer is a touching appeal from the mother and father for their child and his or her physical and spiritual well-being. If this prayer is read with understanding and a true heart, and if the concepts mentioned in this prayer are put into practice, then we should definitely be able to raise an exceptional generation for the future.

اللهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ. بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرحيم اللهُم وَ مُنْ عَلَيَّ بَقَاءِ وَلْدِي، وَ بِإِصْلاحِهِمْ لِي، وَ بِامتاعي بِهِم.

O Allah! Send your blessings upon Muhammad the family of Muhammad. I begin in the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O Allah! Be kind to me through the survival of my children, setting them right for me, and allowing me to enjoy them!

إلهي امْدُدْ لِي فِي أَعْمَارِهِمْ، وَ زِدْ لِي فِي آجالِهِمْ، وَ رَبِّ لي صَغِيرَهُمْ وَ قَوَ لِي ضَعِيفَهُمْ، وَ أَصحُ لِي أَبْدَانهُمْ وَ أَدْيَانَهُمْ وَأَخْلاقَهُمْ ، ويقافهمْ فِي أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَ فِي جَوَارِحِهِمْ وَ فِي كُلِّ مَا عُنِيتُ بِهِ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ، وَأَدْرِرْ لِي وَعَلَى يَدِيَّ إِرزاَقَهم

My Allah! Make long their lives for me, increase their terms, bring up the smallest for me, strengthen the weakest for me, rectify for me their bodies, their religious dedication, and their moral traits, make them well in their souls, their limbs, and everything that concerns me of their affair, and pour out for me and upon my hand their provisions!"

واجعلهم أبراراً اتقياء بصراء سامعين مطيعين لك ولأَولياأك ومحبين مناصحين ولجميع اعدآئك معاندين و مبغضين آمين

Make them pious, fearing, insightful, hearing, and obedient toward You, loving and well-disposed toward Your friends, and stubbornly resistant and full of hate towards all Your enemies! Ameen!"

مُستقيمين لي، مُطيعينَ غَيْرَ عَاصِينَ وَ لَا عَاقينَ وَلا مخالفِينَ وَلَا خَاطِئِينَ

"O Allah! Through them strengthen my arm, straighten my burdened back, multiply number, adorn my presence, keep alive my mention, suffice me when I am away help me in my needs, and make them loving towards me, affectionate, approaching, upright obedient never disobedient disrespectful, opposed, or offenders!"

وَ أَعِنِّي عَلَى تَرْبِيَتِهِمْ وَ تَأْدِيبهِمْ وَ بِرَهِمْ، وَ هَبْ لِي مِنْ لَدُنْكَ مَعَهُمْ أَوْلاَداً ذُكُوراً ، وَاجْعَلْ ذلكَ خَيْراً لِي وَاجْعَلْهُمْ لِي عَونَا عَلَى مَا سَأَلْتُكَ.

''Help me in their upbringing, their education, and my devotion towards them, give me among them from Your Self male children, make that a good for me, and make them a help for me in that which I ask from You!"

وَأَعِذْنِي وَذُرِّيَّتِي مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجيمِ، فَإِنَّكَ خَلَقْتَنَا وَ أَمَرْتَنَا وَ نَهَيْتَنَا وَ رَغْبَتَنَا فِي ثَوَابِ مَا أَمَرْتَنَا وَ رَهَّبْتَنَا عِقَابَهُ، وَ جَعَلْتَ لَنَا عَدُوّاً يَكيدُنَا، سَلْطَتَهُ مِنَّا عَلَى مَا لَمْ تُسَلِّطْنَا عَلَيْهِ منْهُ، أَسْكَتَتَهُ صُدُورَنَا، وَ أَجْرَيْتَهُ مَجَارِيَ دَمَائنَا، لَا يَغْفُلُ إِنَّ غَفَلْنَا، وَ لَا يَنْسَى إِنْ نَسِينَا، يُؤْمِنُنَا عِقَابَكَ، وَ يُحَوِفُنَا بغيرك.

"Give me and my progeny refuge from the accursed Satan, for You have created us, commanded us, and prohibited us, and made us desire the reward of what You have commanded, and fear its punishment! You assigned to us an enemy who schemes against us, gave him an authority over us in a way that You did not give us authority over him, allowed him to dwell in our breasts and let him run in our blood vessels; he is not heedless, though we are heedless, he does not forget, though we forget, he makes us feel secure from Your punishment and fills us with fear towards other than You."

إِنْ هَمَمْنَا بِفَاحِشَةٍ شَجَّعَنَا عَلَيْهَا، وَ إِنْ هَمَمْنَا بِعَمَلٍ صَالِحٍ ثبَّطَنَا عَنْهُ، يَتَعَرَّضُ لَنَا بِالشَّهَوَاتِ، وَ يَنْصِبُ لَنَا بِالشَّبُهَاتِ، إِنْ وَعَدَنَا كَذَبَنَا وَ إِنْ مَنَّانَا أَخْلَفَنَا وَلَا تَصْرِفْ عَنَّا كَيْدَهُ يُضِلَّنَا، وَلَا تَقِنَا خبَالَهُ يَسْتَزِلْنَا.

If we are about to commit an indecency, he gives us courage to do so, and if we are about to perform a righteous work, he holds us back from it. He opposes us through passions, and sets up for us doubts. If he promises us, he lies, and if he raises our hopes, he fails to fulfill them. If You do not tum his trickery away from us, then he will misjudge us, and if You dost not protect us from his corruption, then he will cause us to slip.

اللهُمَّ فَاقْهَرْ سُلْطَانَهُ عَنَّا بِسُلْطَانِكَ حَتَّىٰ تَحْبِسَهُ عَنَّا بِكَثْرَةِ الدُّعَاءِ لَكَ، فَتُصْبِحَ مِنْ كَيْدِهِ فِي الْمَعْصُومِينَ بِكَ.

"O Allah! So defeat my authority over us through Your authority such that You hold me back from us through the frequency of our supplication to You, and such that we leave his trickery and rise up among those preserved by You from sins"

اللهُمَّ أَعْطِنِي كُلِّ سُؤلِي، وَأَقْضِ لِي حَوَائِجِي، وَ لا تمْنَعْنِي الْإِجَابَةَ وَقَدْ ضَمِنْتَهَا لِي، وَلا تحجب دُعَائي عَنْكَ وَ قَدْ أَمَرْتَنِي بِهِ، وَامْنُنْ عَلَيَّ بِكُلِّ مَا يُصْلِحُنِي فِي دُنْيَايَ وَ آخِرَتِي مَا ذَكَرْتُ مِنْهُ وَ مَا نَسِيتُ، أَوْ أظْهَرْتُ أَوْ أَخْفَيْتُ، أَوْ أَعْلَنْتُ أَوْ أَسْرَرْتُ

"O Allah! Grant me my every request, accomplish for me my needs, withhold not from me Your response when You have made Your Self accountable for it to me, veil not my supplication from Your Self, when You have commanded me to make it, and be kind to me through everything that will set me right in this world and the next, in everything that I remember or forget, display or conceal make public or keep secret. "

وَاجْعَلْنِي فِي جَمِيعِ ذَلِكَ مِنَ الْمُصْلِحِينَ بِسُوَالِي إِيَّاكَ المنجحين بالطلب إلَيْكَ، غَيْر الْمَمْنُوعِينَ بالتوكل عَلَيْكَ الْمُعَوَّذينَ بالتَّعوذ بك، الرابحين في التجارة عَلَيْكَ، الْمُحَارِينَ بِعِزّكَ، الْمُوَسَّعَ عَلَيْهِمُ الرِّزْقُ الْحَلَالُ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ الْوَاسِع بحودكَ وَكَرَمِكَ، الْمُعَزِّينَ مِنَ الذُّلِّ بِكَ، وَ الْمُجارِينَ مِن الظُّلْمِ بِعَدْلِكَ، وَ الْمُعَافَيْنَ مِنَ الْبَلاءِ بِرَحْمَتِكَ، وَ الْمُعْنَيْنَ مِنَ الْفَقْرِ بِعِنَاكَ، والمعصومين من الذنوب والزلل وَالْخطَاءِ بِتَقْوَاكَ،وَالْمُوَفِّقينَ للخير والرشد وَالصَّوَاب بِطَاعَتِكَ، وَالْمُحَال بَيْنَهُمْ وَ بَيْنَ الذُّنُوبِ بِقُدْرَتِكَ، التَّارِكِينَ لِكُلِّ مَعْصِيَتِكَ، الساكنينَ فِي حِوَارِكَ.

Those accustomed to seek refuge in You, those who profit through commerce with You, those granted sanctuary through Your might, those given lawful provision in plenty from Your boundless bounty through Your munificence and generosity, those who reach exaltation after abasement through You, those granted sanctuary from wrong through Your justice, those released from affliction through Your mercy, those delivered from need after poverty through Your riches, those preserved from sins, slips, and offenses through reverential fear toward You those successful in goodness, right conduct, and propriety through obeying You those walled off from sins through Your power, the refrainers from every act of disobedience toward You the dwellers in Your neighbourhood!"

أَللَّهُمَّ أَعْطِنَا جَمِيعَ ذَلِكَ بِتَوْفِيقِكَ وَ رَحْمَتِكَ، وَ أَعِذْنَا مِنْ عَذَابِ السَّعِيرِ، وَ أَعْطِ جَميعَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ وَالْمُسْلِمَات وَالْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ مِثْلَ الَّذِي سَأَلْتُكَ لِنَفْسِي وَ لِوُلْدِي فِي عَاجِلِ الدُّنْيَا وَآجِلِ الآخِرَةِ، إِنَّكَ قَرِيبٌ مُحِيبٌ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ عَفُوٌّ غَفُورٌ رَؤُوفٌ رَحِيمٌ.

O Allah! Give me all of that through Your bestowal of success and Your mercy, grant us refuge from the chastisement of the burning and give to all the Muslim male and female; and all the faithful male and female; the like of what I have asked for myself and my children in the immediate of this world and the deferred of the next! Verily You are the Near, the Responder the All-Hearing the All­ Knowing, the Pardoner, the Forgiving, the Clement the Merciful!

وَآتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَّ فِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةٌ وَّ قِنَا عَذَابَ النار.

And give to us good in this world, and good in the next world/ and protect us from the chastisement of the Fire!"