The
Sahifa Sajjadia is our best known
Dua Book. In many duas repeatedly our Imam
has prayed for obedience to the laws of
Islam & highlights the need to know & adhere
to the HIS rules of forbidden & permitted
etc. Given below is a sample of some
extracts showing the importance of following
the Islamic laws
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Dua no 1 Then He Commanded us to do
certain things so that He may thereby test our
obedience and forbade us to do certain
things so that He may test our gratitude……. He
has not commanded anything except what is easy.
Thus He has not left anyone of us with any
pretext or excuse for disobedience |
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Dua no 7 Make us the strictest observers
of Your laws and things careful in
abstaining from those things which You have
prohibited. |
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Dua no 8 Do not let anxiety keep me from
the performance of my duties to You and the
observance of Your laws. |
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Dua no 12 O You, obedience to Whom
is salvation to those who obey, bless Muhammad
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Dua no 17 And this is not because I
possess any grace in Your sight, but because of
Your gracious delay and Your loving kindness to
me in order that I may keep away from Your wrath
incurred by disobedience ., ….when I
spend the sustenance which You have allotted me
in those sins which You have forbidden me
to commit? |
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Dua no 22 ..Empty my mind (of everything)
but Your Love. Engage it in remembering You.
Exalt it with fear of You and dread of You.
Strengthen it with longing for You. Incline it
to Your obedience |
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Dua no 23 Check me from doing things
forbidden. Do not let me be encouraged in
disobedience.
….. Till I be in respect to whatever happens
unto me thereby in an even state of mind –
working in obedience to You. |
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Dua no 24 And (favor me) with avoidance
of what You have forbidden me to do. My
God! |
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Dua no 26 Of those who have grace for
goodness, virtue and righteousness owing to
their obedience to You |
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Dua no 28 O Lord, and whatever warrior of
the faith fights with them or soldier from among
the followers of Your Laws |
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Dua no 32.. that I will not go
back to what You disapprove; and my covenant
that I will give up all acts of disobedience
unto You. |
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Dua no 40 Break away my desire from
everything forbidden. |
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Dua no 46 O Lord, whosoever observed this
month
as it ought to be observed, preserved its honor
as it deserved to be preserved, obeyed its
laws) |
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Dua no 48 Day of Arafa; Through him
establish Thy Book, Thy bounds, Thy laws,
and the norms of Thy Messenger's Sunna…. Give me
a preservation which will bring me close to
dread of Thee,cut me off from committing things
made unlawful by Thee, |
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You forbid him from disobeying You and he
disobeyed Your Command and did what was
forbidden by You ….Therefore, make me live a
pure life that would include in itself what I
desire and would achieve what I love, in such a
manner that I may not commit what You have
forbidden. |
