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Prayer 1: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that my body, empowered by the good health that You had granted, was able to commit; every sin that came within the reaches of my power only due to the grace of Your bounties; every sin to which my hand, nourished by Your ample sustenance, extended. And while sinning, I hid myself behind Your veil from the people; and when fearing You, while engrossed in my sin, I relied on Your assurance of safety and forgiveness; and I took refuge in You, with your clemency, not to smite me, and I depended on You, with your noble countenance and pardon, to forgive me.
So send blessings and peace, O my Lord, upon our Master Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessing be upon him) and upon the family of our Master Muhammad, and forgive my sin, O Best of those who forgive!
(Note: This ending prayer follows each one of the seventy prayers in the actual litany but has only been mentioned here once in the translation)
Prayer 2: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that invites me toward Your anger, or draws me near to Your displeasure, or makes me inclined to that which You have prohibited, or distances me from [the bliss and success] to which you have invited me.
Prayer 3: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin into which I, out of my deviance, lured one of Your creation; or which I, with my cunning, deceived him into doing; hence, teaching him such wicked deeds that he was previously unaware of, and making attractive to him those that he was not aware of. Now, I am to meet You tomorrow, with my burden of sins along with the burden of others’ sins.
Prayer 4: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that calls toward deviance; for every sin that leads away from the path of guidance; for every sin that diminishes abundant wealth; for every sin that obliterates long-possessed property and inherited family wealth; for every sin that deprives me of honorable repute; and for every sin that drives away my friends and family.
Prayer 5: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin in which I exhausted my limbs, by day and by night- all the while keeping myself hidden, out of shame from Your servants, with Your covering over me; and indeed, there is nothing to cover my sins except what You cover me with.
Prayer 6: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin with which my enemies intended to disgrace me, but You turned their plotting away from me and did not assist them in disgracing me, as though I were You obedient servant; and You sustained me until it seemed as though I were Your friend. Until when, O my Lord, will I disobey You and You continue giving me respite? Long indeed have I disobeyed You and You have not punished me; and long indeed have I, with all my evil deeds, beseeched You and You have granted me my requests. What meager thanks of mine can measure up, in Your sight, to even one of Your many blessings upon me?
Prayer 7: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I presented my repentance before You; and regarding which I stood before You swearing an oath in your name and called Your friends from among Your servants to be my witnesses- that I would never return to disobeying You. But when Shaitan with his cunning tempted me to return to it; and Your forsaking me [due to Your anger over my impiety] caused me to [despairingly] waver toward it; and my lower self invited me to disobey You once more; I hid myself in shame from Your servants, but openly and daringly committed sins before You, though I knew full well that no covering not any closed door could conceal me from You and no veil could hide me from Your sight. I still defied You by disobediently doing what You had prohibited to me; but [despite my iniquity], You did not remove Your covering from me, but rather treated me equal to Your pious servants, as though I had always been an obedient servant and swift to fulfill Your every command and fearful of Your warnings. I remained obscure in front of your servants, and none besides You knew my secret. You did not single me out from Your servants with a mark of disgrace, but instead showered upon me blessings like theirs; and with this You distinguished me over them as though I were, in Your sight, of a status like theirs. All this was owing only of Your forbearance and abundant blessings- generous grace from You to me. For you then, O my Lord, belongs all praise. I ask from You, O Allah, just as You have covered my evil deeds in this world, that You do not humiliate me with them on the Day of Judgment. [Forgive my sins,] O Most Merciful of the merciful!
Prayer 8: Oh Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin for which I spent the night in sleeplessness, savoring the pleasure of soon committing it and waiting in eager anticipation of its realization and fulfillment- until when morning came, I presented myself before You in the guise of the pious, while concealing in my heart what was against Your pleasure. [Forgive me,] O Lord of the Worlds!
Prayer 9: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I wronged one of Your friends and assisted one of Your enemies or of which I spoke favorably, against Your liking, or upon which I rode away from Your obedience; or to which I advanced in the blatant defiance of Your command.
Prayer 10: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that breeds rancor, for every sin that causes rancor, for every sin that causes calamity to strike, for every sin makes my enemies to rejoice at my misfortune, for every sin that removes the coverings [from my faults and the faults of others], and for every sin that withholds rain from the heavens.
Prayer 11: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that diverted me from the way to which You had guided me; or from doing what You had commanded me and avoiding what You had forbidden me; or from doing anything to which You had directed me, in which there would have been for me prosperity and attainment of Your pleasure, Your love and Your nearness.
Prayer 12: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I forgot but You recorded; that I made little of but You noted; that I openly committed but You quietly concealed- and if I were to repent to You for it, You would surely forgive it.
Prayer 13: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which even before its completion, I anticipated Your swift punishment, but You granted me respite and draped over me a covering, yet I spared no effort in trying to tear it away from myself.
Prayer 14: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that You prohibited to me but I opposed You by committing; and every sin that You forewarned me of but I remained firm in committing; and every sin You deemed abominable but my lower self made attractive to me.
Prayer 15: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that turns away from me Your mercy, or causes Your vengeance to befall me, or deprives me of Your generosity, or takes away from me Your blessings.
Prayer 16: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I reproached or condemned one of Your creation for committing, but then myself plunged into and brazenly committed before You.
Prayer 17: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I repented to You and then embarked on committing again; but then I felt ashamed before You and fearful of You while engrossed in I, so I invoked Your forgiveness for it once more, but [out of my weakness] returned to it yet again.
Prayer 18: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that overtook me and became unavoidable for me when I took a covenant with You, or made a promise to You, or took an oath with You in regards to a responsibility to one of Your creation, and then I broke it without any excuse; it was in fact my arrogance that made me step down from fulfilling it and my insolence that made me reject observing it.
Prayer 19: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that overcame me [when I abused] a bounty You had bestowed upon me, using it to embolden myself in disobeying You, opposing Your command, and insolently advancing toward a sin despite Your warnings [of punishment]
Prayer 20: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin in which I gave preference to my base desire over Your obedience and my passion over Your command- thus I contented myself with Your wrath and subjected myself to Your displeasure, though You had forbidden me, presented your admonition to me, and established the proof of it to me through Your warnings [of punishment in Your revelations]. I seek Your forgiveness, O Allah, and repent to You.
Prayer 21: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I knew myself to have committed, then forgot about or remembered, or that I had committed intentionally or unintentionally; and I have no doubt that it is a sin about which You will question me and for which my soul is held captive to You, even if I have become forgetful and heedless of it.
Prayer 22: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I committed in front of You knowing full well that You were watching me. I intended to turn toward You in repentance for it, but I was made to forget to invoke Your forgiveness- It was Shaitan that made me forget.
Prayer 23: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin upon which I embarked thinking well of You- that You would forgive me for it and not punish me. I thus audaciously continued in committing it while relying, with my knowledge of Your generosity, on You not to disgrace me after having concealed it for me.
Prayer 24: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I deserved rejection of my prayers, and refusal of their acceptance, and failure in my hopes being fulfilled, and severance of hope in Your mercy.
Prayer 25: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin that brings about illness and emaciating diseases, and warrants punishments and misery, and will be a cause of grief and remorse on the Day of Judgment.
Prayer 26: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that leaves grief in its wake, that causes remorse, that holds back sustenance and that prevents acceptance of [my] prayers.
Prayer 27: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin that I praised with my tongue, or that I resolved upon in my heart, or that my soul took pleasure in, or that my tongue endorsed, or that I committed in any way or caused one of Your servants to commit.
Prayer 28: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin that I committed in solitude during my nights and my day, yet You lowered over me a covering so that none besides You- O All-Compelling One- could see me engaged in it. My soul thus fell into confusion, and I wavered between abandoning it out of fear of You and committing it out of good hopes in your mercy; but my lower self adorned it for me such that I boldly committed it, though being aware that, in doing so, I was disobeying You.
Prayer 29: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I took to be trivial but You took to be weighty, that I deemed to be small but You deemed to be an enormity, and in which my own ignorance embroiled me.
Prayer 30: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin by which I misguided one of Your creation, or through which I mistreated one of them, or which my lower self made seemingly attractive to me, or which I pointed out to another person, or to which I steered someone besides myself, or in which I intentionally persisted, or to which I remained stubbornly attached out of my foolishness.
Prayer 31: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I betrayed my trust [of obedience], or whose perpetration my lower self commended to me, or by which I violated the rights of my own body, or in doing which I gave precedence to my base desires over obedience to You, or from which I gained excessive delight, or which I strove to do for the sake of another, or to which I lured my followers, or on which I remained stubborn against one who tried to prevent me, or in committing which I overcame one who tried to obstruct me or subdued him through my cunning, or into which my evil tendencies caused me to slip.
Prayer 32: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I employed such cunning that invokes Your wrath, or in committing which I overcame those in Your disobedience, or by which I lured-or intended to lure-one of Your creation into disobeying You. And though I made it seem to your servants that through my endeavors I seek You [and Your pleasure], my true aim was to disobey You, and as such my desire was turned away from Your obedience.
Prayer 33: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that You recorded against me because of my self-conceit, or ostentation, or desire to be heard, or malice, or rancor, or treachery, or pride, or exultancy, or intemperate mirth, or obstinacy, or envy, or insolence, or ungratefulness, or fervor for other than Your sake, or bigotry, or acquiescence to sin, or blind hope, or extreme avarice, or generous spending for sin, or oppression, or unwarranted cunning, or theft, or lying, or backbiting, or idle amusement, or fruitless talk, or calumny, or useless play, or any such activity that by doing it sins are reaped and in pursuing it there is destruction and grief.
Prayer 34: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin in doing which I feared someone besides you, and opposed your friends, and befriended Your enemies, and forsook those beloved to You and placed myself in the path of Your anger.
Prayer 35: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness, through the power You possess over me and over everything, for every sin that I was predestined, in Your eternal knowledge, to commit.
Prayer 36: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I repented to You, but which I then returned to, breaking the covenant between me and You, out of my insolence and my knowledge of Your abundant forgiveness.
Prayer 37: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that has drawn me near to Your punishment, or has distanced me from Your reward, or has hidden from me Your mercy, or has sullied for me Your blessings.
Prayer 38: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I-while acquiring some good You had promised-permitted what you had forbidden or forbade what You had promised-permitted what You had forbidden or forbade what You had permitted. For extreme greed had entered into my heart, and because of it I was deprived of some good that I could have deserved, or by it I deprived another soul of some good that it deserved.
Prayer 39: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I committed with the good health You granted me, or gained the ability to do because of Your endless blessings, or became more bold in doing due to Your keeping away Your vengeance from me, or toward which I extended my hands by means of your plentiful sustenance; or any sin that I committed, initially doing some good action seeking therewith Your noble Countenance, but into which my soul’s covetousness mixed what invoked Your displeasure.
Prayer 40: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin to which my search for excuses and my craving [for the world] invited me, and thus I sought to commit it and so made lawful for myself what You had decreed unlawful.
Prayer 41: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin that remained hidden from Your creation but did not escape You- for which I repented to You and You forgave me. But I then returned to it, yet You still kept it concealed for me.
Prayer 42: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin toward which I walked with my legs, or toward which I extended my hands, or which I closely observed with my eyes, or which I carefully listened to with my ears, or which I uttered with my tongue, or in which I squandered of the sustenance You had provided me. The despite my disobedience, I asked You for more sustenance, and You provided it to me. Then again, I used Your sustenance disobeying You, but You kept Your covering over me. Yet again I asked You for more and You still did not deprive me. Then after Your increase, I openly transgressed against You, but You did not humiliate me. I have thus constantly persisted in disobeying You, and You have constantly remained clement and benevolent with me- O Most Benevolent of the benevolent!
Prayer 43: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin, the minor of which warrants You painful punishment, the major of which causes Your severe punishment to descend, and the committing of which hastens Your vengeance, and the persisting in which brings an end to Your bounty.
Prayer 44: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that nobody knew of but You, and that nobody was aware of but You- it is among those grave sins from which nothing but Your pardon can save me, and which nothing but Your forgiveness and forbearance can encompass.
Prayer 45: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that removes blessings, and causes punishments to descend, and violates the sacred, and prolongs illness, and hastens anguish, and leaves behind it remorse.
Prayer 46: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that obliterates good deeds, and multiplies evil deeds, and causes punishments to descend, and angers You, O Lord of the Heavens!
Prayer 47: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin, which You are most worthy to forgive, for You were the One most noble in keeping it concealed. Indeed, you are all-worthy of reverent fear and all-worthy of granting forgiveness.
Prayer 48: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I wronged one of Your friends while assisting Your enemies and siding with those in Your disobedience against those in Your obedience.
Prayer 49: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin in which my deep engrossment cloaked me with humiliation and made me despair of the existence of your mercy; or it was despair that prevented me from returning to obeying You, as I realized the severity of my crime and mired hopelessly in my low opinion of myself.
Prayer 50: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that would have brought about my destruction had it not been for Your forbearance and mercy; and would have entered me into the Abode of Perdition [Hell] had it not been for Your favor; and would have taken me down the path of deviance had it not been for Your guidance.
Prayer 51: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that perpetration of which brings loss of hope, and rejection of prayer, and consecutive calamities, ad successive anxieties, and multiplied sorrows.
Prayer 52: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that turns my prayer away from You, and prolongs my suffering of Your displeasure, and shortens my hope in You.
Prayer 53: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness of every sin that kills the heart, and incites anxiety, and preoccupies the mind, and pleases the Shaitan, and angers the All-Merciful.
Prayer 54: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that leaves in its wake despair of Your mercy, and despondency of your forgiveness, and deprivation of Your vast treasures.
Prayer 55: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I despised myself out of reverence for You. I expressed my repentance to You and You accepted it. I invoked Your pardon and You granted it. Then my base desires returned me to my old habits, as I only longed for Your abundant mercy and generous forgiveness, and forgot Your threats [of punishment], and entertained hopes of Your gracious promises [of reward].
Prayer 56: O Allah, I seek forgiveness for every sin that will blacken my face on the day when the faces of Your friends will be whitened and the faces of Your enemies will be blackened- when Your enemies will turn, one against another, in reproach, and You will say, “Dispute not with each other in My presence, for I have already sent you advanced warning.” (al-Qur’an 50:28)
Prayer 57: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I understood to be a sin and, out of shame before You, remained silent when remembering it; and every sin that I concealed in my heart but You knew of in me, for You know what is secret and what is still more hidden.
Prayer 58: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that makes me detestable to Your servants, and repels from me Your friends; or that estranges me to those in Your obedience, my mounting grief, and my perpetration of sins.
Prayer 59: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that calls toward unbelief, and prolongs indecisiveness in thought, and leads to poverty, and brings on hardship, and prevents prosperity, and rends the covering from over my sins, and prevents ease.
Prayer 60: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that draws nearer [to people] their appointed times of death, and severs hopes [in your mercy], and spoils good deeds.
Prayer 61: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that pollutes what You have made pure, and exposes of me what You have covered [of my wrongdoings], or makes repulsive what You have beautified in me.
Prayer 62: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness of every sin because of which Your promise cannot be obtained, and in the presence of which safety from Your wrath cannot be felt, nor can Your mercy descend, nor can I attain Your permanent favors.
Prayer 63: O Allah, I seek forgiveness for every sin in doing which I concealed myself from Your servants in the light of day but openly and daringly opposed You by committing them in the darkness of night. This I did despite knowing that secrets are open to You, and that the hidden is exposed to You, and that nothing can protect me from Your punishment, nor can anything- neither my wealth nor my children- avail me before You, except that I come to You with a sound heart.
Prayer 64: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that causes forgetfulness of Your remembrance; or that brings in its wake heedlessness of Your warning and drives me to senselessly feel safe from Your devising; or that causes me to despair of the good reward You possess.
Prayer 65: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that overtook me because I disrespectfully complained and objected to You for withholding Your subsistence from me, and because I turned away from You and inclined instead toward Your [powerless] servants in submissiveness and earnest petition; whereas You had let me hear Your clear statement in Your Book, “But they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor did they submissively entreat [Him]” (al-Qur’an 23:76)
Prayer 66: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that remained with me because, when anxiety struck, I sought aid, succor, and support from someone besides You.
Prayer 67: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin to which fear of someone else besides You drove me and it [the fear] called me to earnestly entreat one of Your creation or inclined me to yearn for what others besides You possessed- so I preferred to obey them and disobey You in order to lay hand on what they had, though I was aware that I am in need of You and that I am never free and independent of Your support.
Prayer 68: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that my soul made seem to me trivial and small, and continued to make seem insignificant, until it finally entangled me in it.
Prayer 69: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that Your pen recorded and Your knowledge encompassed- every one that I have committed and that I am to commit until the end of my life. I seek Your forgiveness for all of my sins: the first and the last, the intentional and the unintentional, the few and the many, the minor and the major, the subtle and the noticeable, the past and the recent, the secret and the open and public- and all those I am to commit throughout my life.
Prayer 70: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin of mine. I ask You to forgive me all the injustices against Your servants that You have enumerated against me; for Your servants have against me many claims of violated rights and injustices to which I am held captive. O Allah, even if these evil deeds of mine are many in number, they are a paltry few in sight of Your forgiveness. O Allah, any make or female servant of Yours who has against me a claim of injustice, that I forcefully seized from him something of his land or wealth or honor or body- whether he was absent or present, or whether he or his representatives demanded from me compensation for it but neither was I able to return it to him nor did I seek to be pardoned for it- I ask that You, with Your benevolence, generosity, and abundant treasures, satisfy them on my behalf; and do not give them over me power to take away and decrease my good deeds. For indeed You possess what can satisfy them on my behalf, and I do not. And do not make a way for their bad deeds to overcome my good deeds on the day of Judgment.
So send blessings and peace, O my Lord, upon our Master Muhammad (may Allah’s peace and blessing be upon him) and upon the family of our Master Muhammad, and forgive my sin, O Best of those who forgive!
(Note: This ending prayer follows each one of the seventy prayers in the actual litany but has only been mentioned here once in the translation)
Prayer 2: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that invites me toward Your anger, or draws me near to Your displeasure, or makes me inclined to that which You have prohibited, or distances me from [the bliss and success] to which you have invited me.
Prayer 3: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin into which I, out of my deviance, lured one of Your creation; or which I, with my cunning, deceived him into doing; hence, teaching him such wicked deeds that he was previously unaware of, and making attractive to him those that he was not aware of. Now, I am to meet You tomorrow, with my burden of sins along with the burden of others’ sins.
Prayer 4: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that calls toward deviance; for every sin that leads away from the path of guidance; for every sin that diminishes abundant wealth; for every sin that obliterates long-possessed property and inherited family wealth; for every sin that deprives me of honorable repute; and for every sin that drives away my friends and family.
Prayer 5: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin in which I exhausted my limbs, by day and by night- all the while keeping myself hidden, out of shame from Your servants, with Your covering over me; and indeed, there is nothing to cover my sins except what You cover me with.
Prayer 6: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin with which my enemies intended to disgrace me, but You turned their plotting away from me and did not assist them in disgracing me, as though I were You obedient servant; and You sustained me until it seemed as though I were Your friend. Until when, O my Lord, will I disobey You and You continue giving me respite? Long indeed have I disobeyed You and You have not punished me; and long indeed have I, with all my evil deeds, beseeched You and You have granted me my requests. What meager thanks of mine can measure up, in Your sight, to even one of Your many blessings upon me?
Prayer 7: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I presented my repentance before You; and regarding which I stood before You swearing an oath in your name and called Your friends from among Your servants to be my witnesses- that I would never return to disobeying You. But when Shaitan with his cunning tempted me to return to it; and Your forsaking me [due to Your anger over my impiety] caused me to [despairingly] waver toward it; and my lower self invited me to disobey You once more; I hid myself in shame from Your servants, but openly and daringly committed sins before You, though I knew full well that no covering not any closed door could conceal me from You and no veil could hide me from Your sight. I still defied You by disobediently doing what You had prohibited to me; but [despite my iniquity], You did not remove Your covering from me, but rather treated me equal to Your pious servants, as though I had always been an obedient servant and swift to fulfill Your every command and fearful of Your warnings. I remained obscure in front of your servants, and none besides You knew my secret. You did not single me out from Your servants with a mark of disgrace, but instead showered upon me blessings like theirs; and with this You distinguished me over them as though I were, in Your sight, of a status like theirs. All this was owing only of Your forbearance and abundant blessings- generous grace from You to me. For you then, O my Lord, belongs all praise. I ask from You, O Allah, just as You have covered my evil deeds in this world, that You do not humiliate me with them on the Day of Judgment. [Forgive my sins,] O Most Merciful of the merciful!
Prayer 8: Oh Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin for which I spent the night in sleeplessness, savoring the pleasure of soon committing it and waiting in eager anticipation of its realization and fulfillment- until when morning came, I presented myself before You in the guise of the pious, while concealing in my heart what was against Your pleasure. [Forgive me,] O Lord of the Worlds!
Prayer 9: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I wronged one of Your friends and assisted one of Your enemies or of which I spoke favorably, against Your liking, or upon which I rode away from Your obedience; or to which I advanced in the blatant defiance of Your command.
Prayer 10: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that breeds rancor, for every sin that causes rancor, for every sin that causes calamity to strike, for every sin makes my enemies to rejoice at my misfortune, for every sin that removes the coverings [from my faults and the faults of others], and for every sin that withholds rain from the heavens.
Prayer 11: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that diverted me from the way to which You had guided me; or from doing what You had commanded me and avoiding what You had forbidden me; or from doing anything to which You had directed me, in which there would have been for me prosperity and attainment of Your pleasure, Your love and Your nearness.
Prayer 12: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I forgot but You recorded; that I made little of but You noted; that I openly committed but You quietly concealed- and if I were to repent to You for it, You would surely forgive it.
Prayer 13: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which even before its completion, I anticipated Your swift punishment, but You granted me respite and draped over me a covering, yet I spared no effort in trying to tear it away from myself.
Prayer 14: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that You prohibited to me but I opposed You by committing; and every sin that You forewarned me of but I remained firm in committing; and every sin You deemed abominable but my lower self made attractive to me.
Prayer 15: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that turns away from me Your mercy, or causes Your vengeance to befall me, or deprives me of Your generosity, or takes away from me Your blessings.
Prayer 16: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I reproached or condemned one of Your creation for committing, but then myself plunged into and brazenly committed before You.
Prayer 17: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I repented to You and then embarked on committing again; but then I felt ashamed before You and fearful of You while engrossed in I, so I invoked Your forgiveness for it once more, but [out of my weakness] returned to it yet again.
Prayer 18: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that overtook me and became unavoidable for me when I took a covenant with You, or made a promise to You, or took an oath with You in regards to a responsibility to one of Your creation, and then I broke it without any excuse; it was in fact my arrogance that made me step down from fulfilling it and my insolence that made me reject observing it.
Prayer 19: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that overcame me [when I abused] a bounty You had bestowed upon me, using it to embolden myself in disobeying You, opposing Your command, and insolently advancing toward a sin despite Your warnings [of punishment]
Prayer 20: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin in which I gave preference to my base desire over Your obedience and my passion over Your command- thus I contented myself with Your wrath and subjected myself to Your displeasure, though You had forbidden me, presented your admonition to me, and established the proof of it to me through Your warnings [of punishment in Your revelations]. I seek Your forgiveness, O Allah, and repent to You.
Prayer 21: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I knew myself to have committed, then forgot about or remembered, or that I had committed intentionally or unintentionally; and I have no doubt that it is a sin about which You will question me and for which my soul is held captive to You, even if I have become forgetful and heedless of it.
Prayer 22: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I committed in front of You knowing full well that You were watching me. I intended to turn toward You in repentance for it, but I was made to forget to invoke Your forgiveness- It was Shaitan that made me forget.
Prayer 23: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin upon which I embarked thinking well of You- that You would forgive me for it and not punish me. I thus audaciously continued in committing it while relying, with my knowledge of Your generosity, on You not to disgrace me after having concealed it for me.
Prayer 24: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I deserved rejection of my prayers, and refusal of their acceptance, and failure in my hopes being fulfilled, and severance of hope in Your mercy.
Prayer 25: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin that brings about illness and emaciating diseases, and warrants punishments and misery, and will be a cause of grief and remorse on the Day of Judgment.
Prayer 26: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that leaves grief in its wake, that causes remorse, that holds back sustenance and that prevents acceptance of [my] prayers.
Prayer 27: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin that I praised with my tongue, or that I resolved upon in my heart, or that my soul took pleasure in, or that my tongue endorsed, or that I committed in any way or caused one of Your servants to commit.
Prayer 28: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin that I committed in solitude during my nights and my day, yet You lowered over me a covering so that none besides You- O All-Compelling One- could see me engaged in it. My soul thus fell into confusion, and I wavered between abandoning it out of fear of You and committing it out of good hopes in your mercy; but my lower self adorned it for me such that I boldly committed it, though being aware that, in doing so, I was disobeying You.
Prayer 29: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I took to be trivial but You took to be weighty, that I deemed to be small but You deemed to be an enormity, and in which my own ignorance embroiled me.
Prayer 30: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin by which I misguided one of Your creation, or through which I mistreated one of them, or which my lower self made seemingly attractive to me, or which I pointed out to another person, or to which I steered someone besides myself, or in which I intentionally persisted, or to which I remained stubbornly attached out of my foolishness.
Prayer 31: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I betrayed my trust [of obedience], or whose perpetration my lower self commended to me, or by which I violated the rights of my own body, or in doing which I gave precedence to my base desires over obedience to You, or from which I gained excessive delight, or which I strove to do for the sake of another, or to which I lured my followers, or on which I remained stubborn against one who tried to prevent me, or in committing which I overcame one who tried to obstruct me or subdued him through my cunning, or into which my evil tendencies caused me to slip.
Prayer 32: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I employed such cunning that invokes Your wrath, or in committing which I overcame those in Your disobedience, or by which I lured-or intended to lure-one of Your creation into disobeying You. And though I made it seem to your servants that through my endeavors I seek You [and Your pleasure], my true aim was to disobey You, and as such my desire was turned away from Your obedience.
Prayer 33: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that You recorded against me because of my self-conceit, or ostentation, or desire to be heard, or malice, or rancor, or treachery, or pride, or exultancy, or intemperate mirth, or obstinacy, or envy, or insolence, or ungratefulness, or fervor for other than Your sake, or bigotry, or acquiescence to sin, or blind hope, or extreme avarice, or generous spending for sin, or oppression, or unwarranted cunning, or theft, or lying, or backbiting, or idle amusement, or fruitless talk, or calumny, or useless play, or any such activity that by doing it sins are reaped and in pursuing it there is destruction and grief.
Prayer 34: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin in doing which I feared someone besides you, and opposed your friends, and befriended Your enemies, and forsook those beloved to You and placed myself in the path of Your anger.
Prayer 35: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness, through the power You possess over me and over everything, for every sin that I was predestined, in Your eternal knowledge, to commit.
Prayer 36: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I repented to You, but which I then returned to, breaking the covenant between me and You, out of my insolence and my knowledge of Your abundant forgiveness.
Prayer 37: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that has drawn me near to Your punishment, or has distanced me from Your reward, or has hidden from me Your mercy, or has sullied for me Your blessings.
Prayer 38: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I-while acquiring some good You had promised-permitted what you had forbidden or forbade what You had promised-permitted what You had forbidden or forbade what You had permitted. For extreme greed had entered into my heart, and because of it I was deprived of some good that I could have deserved, or by it I deprived another soul of some good that it deserved.
Prayer 39: Oh Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I committed with the good health You granted me, or gained the ability to do because of Your endless blessings, or became more bold in doing due to Your keeping away Your vengeance from me, or toward which I extended my hands by means of your plentiful sustenance; or any sin that I committed, initially doing some good action seeking therewith Your noble Countenance, but into which my soul’s covetousness mixed what invoked Your displeasure.
Prayer 40: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin to which my search for excuses and my craving [for the world] invited me, and thus I sought to commit it and so made lawful for myself what You had decreed unlawful.
Prayer 41: O Allah, I seek your forgiveness for every sin that remained hidden from Your creation but did not escape You- for which I repented to You and You forgave me. But I then returned to it, yet You still kept it concealed for me.
Prayer 42: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin toward which I walked with my legs, or toward which I extended my hands, or which I closely observed with my eyes, or which I carefully listened to with my ears, or which I uttered with my tongue, or in which I squandered of the sustenance You had provided me. The despite my disobedience, I asked You for more sustenance, and You provided it to me. Then again, I used Your sustenance disobeying You, but You kept Your covering over me. Yet again I asked You for more and You still did not deprive me. Then after Your increase, I openly transgressed against You, but You did not humiliate me. I have thus constantly persisted in disobeying You, and You have constantly remained clement and benevolent with me- O Most Benevolent of the benevolent!
Prayer 43: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin, the minor of which warrants You painful punishment, the major of which causes Your severe punishment to descend, and the committing of which hastens Your vengeance, and the persisting in which brings an end to Your bounty.
Prayer 44: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that nobody knew of but You, and that nobody was aware of but You- it is among those grave sins from which nothing but Your pardon can save me, and which nothing but Your forgiveness and forbearance can encompass.
Prayer 45: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that removes blessings, and causes punishments to descend, and violates the sacred, and prolongs illness, and hastens anguish, and leaves behind it remorse.
Prayer 46: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that obliterates good deeds, and multiplies evil deeds, and causes punishments to descend, and angers You, O Lord of the Heavens!
Prayer 47: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin, which You are most worthy to forgive, for You were the One most noble in keeping it concealed. Indeed, you are all-worthy of reverent fear and all-worthy of granting forgiveness.
Prayer 48: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin by which I wronged one of Your friends while assisting Your enemies and siding with those in Your disobedience against those in Your obedience.
Prayer 49: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin in which my deep engrossment cloaked me with humiliation and made me despair of the existence of your mercy; or it was despair that prevented me from returning to obeying You, as I realized the severity of my crime and mired hopelessly in my low opinion of myself.
Prayer 50: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that would have brought about my destruction had it not been for Your forbearance and mercy; and would have entered me into the Abode of Perdition [Hell] had it not been for Your favor; and would have taken me down the path of deviance had it not been for Your guidance.
Prayer 51: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that perpetration of which brings loss of hope, and rejection of prayer, and consecutive calamities, ad successive anxieties, and multiplied sorrows.
Prayer 52: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that turns my prayer away from You, and prolongs my suffering of Your displeasure, and shortens my hope in You.
Prayer 53: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness of every sin that kills the heart, and incites anxiety, and preoccupies the mind, and pleases the Shaitan, and angers the All-Merciful.
Prayer 54: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that leaves in its wake despair of Your mercy, and despondency of your forgiveness, and deprivation of Your vast treasures.
Prayer 55: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin for which I despised myself out of reverence for You. I expressed my repentance to You and You accepted it. I invoked Your pardon and You granted it. Then my base desires returned me to my old habits, as I only longed for Your abundant mercy and generous forgiveness, and forgot Your threats [of punishment], and entertained hopes of Your gracious promises [of reward].
Prayer 56: O Allah, I seek forgiveness for every sin that will blacken my face on the day when the faces of Your friends will be whitened and the faces of Your enemies will be blackened- when Your enemies will turn, one against another, in reproach, and You will say, “Dispute not with each other in My presence, for I have already sent you advanced warning.” (al-Qur’an 50:28)
Prayer 57: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that I understood to be a sin and, out of shame before You, remained silent when remembering it; and every sin that I concealed in my heart but You knew of in me, for You know what is secret and what is still more hidden.
Prayer 58: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that makes me detestable to Your servants, and repels from me Your friends; or that estranges me to those in Your obedience, my mounting grief, and my perpetration of sins.
Prayer 59: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that calls toward unbelief, and prolongs indecisiveness in thought, and leads to poverty, and brings on hardship, and prevents prosperity, and rends the covering from over my sins, and prevents ease.
Prayer 60: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that draws nearer [to people] their appointed times of death, and severs hopes [in your mercy], and spoils good deeds.
Prayer 61: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that pollutes what You have made pure, and exposes of me what You have covered [of my wrongdoings], or makes repulsive what You have beautified in me.
Prayer 62: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness of every sin because of which Your promise cannot be obtained, and in the presence of which safety from Your wrath cannot be felt, nor can Your mercy descend, nor can I attain Your permanent favors.
Prayer 63: O Allah, I seek forgiveness for every sin in doing which I concealed myself from Your servants in the light of day but openly and daringly opposed You by committing them in the darkness of night. This I did despite knowing that secrets are open to You, and that the hidden is exposed to You, and that nothing can protect me from Your punishment, nor can anything- neither my wealth nor my children- avail me before You, except that I come to You with a sound heart.
Prayer 64: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that causes forgetfulness of Your remembrance; or that brings in its wake heedlessness of Your warning and drives me to senselessly feel safe from Your devising; or that causes me to despair of the good reward You possess.
Prayer 65: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that overtook me because I disrespectfully complained and objected to You for withholding Your subsistence from me, and because I turned away from You and inclined instead toward Your [powerless] servants in submissiveness and earnest petition; whereas You had let me hear Your clear statement in Your Book, “But they humbled not themselves to their Lord, nor did they submissively entreat [Him]” (al-Qur’an 23:76)
Prayer 66: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that remained with me because, when anxiety struck, I sought aid, succor, and support from someone besides You.
Prayer 67: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin to which fear of someone else besides You drove me and it [the fear] called me to earnestly entreat one of Your creation or inclined me to yearn for what others besides You possessed- so I preferred to obey them and disobey You in order to lay hand on what they had, though I was aware that I am in need of You and that I am never free and independent of Your support.
Prayer 68: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that my soul made seem to me trivial and small, and continued to make seem insignificant, until it finally entangled me in it.
Prayer 69: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin that Your pen recorded and Your knowledge encompassed- every one that I have committed and that I am to commit until the end of my life. I seek Your forgiveness for all of my sins: the first and the last, the intentional and the unintentional, the few and the many, the minor and the major, the subtle and the noticeable, the past and the recent, the secret and the open and public- and all those I am to commit throughout my life.
Prayer 70: O Allah, I seek Your forgiveness for every sin of mine. I ask You to forgive me all the injustices against Your servants that You have enumerated against me; for Your servants have against me many claims of violated rights and injustices to which I am held captive. O Allah, even if these evil deeds of mine are many in number, they are a paltry few in sight of Your forgiveness. O Allah, any make or female servant of Yours who has against me a claim of injustice, that I forcefully seized from him something of his land or wealth or honor or body- whether he was absent or present, or whether he or his representatives demanded from me compensation for it but neither was I able to return it to him nor did I seek to be pardoned for it- I ask that You, with Your benevolence, generosity, and abundant treasures, satisfy them on my behalf; and do not give them over me power to take away and decrease my good deeds. For indeed You possess what can satisfy them on my behalf, and I do not. And do not make a way for their bad deeds to overcome my good deeds on the day of Judgment.