The above piece of supplication was excerpted from a book named
"The Psalms of Islam" (al-Sahifat al-Sajjadiyya) by Imam Ali Ibn Husain
(al-Sajjad, Zayn al-Abidin), the 4th Imam/successor and grandson of
Prophet (PBUH&HF).
The Psalms of Islam, Arabic-English, Translated by: William C. Chittick,
Published by: The Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
1988
ISBN 0-946079-51-X
ISBN 0-946079-56-O
Mondays' Supplication
Praise belongs to God,
who allowed none to witness when He created the heavens and the earth, and
who took no assistant when He shaped the spirits (of people)!
He has no associate in divinity and no support in unity.
Tongues fall silent in describing the deepness of His attributes,
intellects fail in knowing Him thoroughly,
tyrants fall low before His majesty,
faces are humbled in fear of Him, and
everything mighty is overwhelmed of His might!
Thus praise be to You, again and again, and continuously!
And His blessings be upon His Messenger endlessly and everlastingly!
O' God, make the beginning of this day of mine righteousness, its middle
prosperity, and its end success!
And I seek refuge in You from a day whose beginning is fright, whose middle
is anxiety, and whose end is pain!
O' God, I ask forgiveness for every promise I have promised, then failed to
keep. I ask You concerning Your servants:
If there is any servant from among Your servants or any handmaid from among
Your handmaids, who has against me a complaint because I have wronged him
in respect to himself, his reputation, his property, his family, evil words
I have spoken about him in his absence, an imposition upon him through
inclination, caprice, scorn, zeal, false show, bigotry,
whether he be absent or present, alive or dead, such that my hand has
fallen short in order to find him and ask him for forgiveness, or my
capacity has been too narrow to compensate for him,
I ask You, O' He who owns all objects of need which are granted by His will
and hasten to His desire that bless Mohammad and his Household, and have
mercy on me by satisfying (the one I might have wronged) from me in the
manner
that You will. Because forgiveness decreases You nothing, and grant hurts
You nothing, O' Most Merciful of the merciful!
O' God, give me on every Monday (ITHNAIN) two favors from You:
the opportunity to obey You from its beginning, and
the favor of Your forgiveness by its end.
O' He who is the God, and none but him can forgive the sins!