بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
bismillāhir raḥmānir raḥīm
In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful
اَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ
allāhumma ṣalli `alā muḥammadin wa āli muḥammad
O Allah bless Muhammad and his family
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سَيِّدِيْ سَيِّدِي
sayyidī sayyidī
My Master, My Master
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هٰذِهِ يَدَايَ قَدْ مَدَدْتُهُمَا اِلَيْكَ
hādhihi yadāya qad madadtuhumā ilayk
I have stretched out these hands to You
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بِالذُّنُوْبِ مَمْلُوءَةً
bidhhunūbi mamlū-ah
full of sins
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وَ عَيْنَايَ بِالرَّجَاءِ مَمْدُوْدَةً
wa `aynāya birrajā-i mamdūdah
and my eyes stretched out with hope
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وَحَقٌّ بِمَنْ دَعَاكَ بِالنَّدَمِ تَذَلُّلًا
waḥaqqun biman da`āka binnadami tadhallulā
and it is the right of the one who calls You with regret and humility
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اَنْ تُجِيْبَهُ بِالْكَرَمِ تَفَضُّلًا
an tujībahu bil karami tafaḍḍulā
that You answer him with Generosity and Grace
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سَيِّدِيْ اَمِنْ اَهْلِ الشَّقَاءِ خَلَقْتَنِي
sayyidī amin ahlish shaqā-i khalaqtanī
My master, have You created me from the unfortunate ones
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فَاَطِيْلُ بُكَائِي
fa-aṭīlu bukā-ī
so I should lengthen my weeping?
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اَمْ مِنْ اَهْلِ السَّعَادَةِ خَلَقْتَنِي
am min ahlis sa`ādati khalaqtanī
or have You created me from the fortunate ones
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فَأُبَشِّرُ رَجَائِي
fa-ubashhiru rajā-ī
so I should give glad tidings to my hopes?
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سَيِّدِيْ لَوْ اَنَّ عَبْدًا اِسْتَطَاعَ الْهَرَبَ
sayyidī law anna `abdan istaṭā`al harab
My master, if a servant was able to escape
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مِنْ مَوْلاَهُ
min mawlāh
from his Master
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لَكُنْتُ اَوَّلَ الْهَارِبِيْنَ مِنْكَ
lakuntu awwalal hāribīna mink
then I would be the first of those who escape from You
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لَكِنِّيْ اَعْلَمُ اَنِّيْ لَا اَفُوْتُكَ
lakinnī a`lamu annī lā afūtuk
but I know that I cannot escape You
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اِلٰهِيْ وَ سَيِّدِي
ilāhī wa sayyidī
My God and my master
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اِرْحَمْنِيْ مَصْرُوْعًا عَلَى الْفِرَاشِ
ir-ḥamnī maṣrū`an `alal firāsh
have mercy on me when I am lying on my bed [dead]
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تُقَلِّبُنِيْ اَيْدِيْ اَحِبَّتِي
tuqallibunī aydī aḥibbatī
and the hands of my loved ones turn me
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وَ ارْحَمْنِيْ مَطْرُوْحًا عَلَى الْمُغْتَسَلِ
war-ḥamnī maṭrūḥan `alal mughtasal
have mercy on me when I am placed on the place of ghusl [washing]
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يُغَسِّلُنِيْ صَالِحُ جِيْرَتِي
yughassilunī ṣāliḥu jīratī
and the virtuous near ones wash me
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وَ ارْحَمْنِيْ مَحْمُوْلًا
war-ḥamnī maḥmūlā
have mercy on me when I am being carried
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قَدْ تَنَاوَلَ الَاقْرِبَاءُ اَطْرَافَ جَنَازَتِي
qad tanāwalal aqribā-u aṭrāfa janāzatī
and my relatives have surrounded my coffin
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وَ ارْحَمْ فِيْ ذٰلِكَ الْبَيْتِ الْمُظْلِمِ
war-ḥam fī dhālikal baytil muẓlim
have mercy on me in that dark house
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وَحْشَتِيْ وَ غُرْبَتِيْ وَ وَحْدَتِي
waḥshatī wa ghur-batī wa waḥdatī
on my fear, my separation, and my loneliness.
