As the morning is the beginning of being engaged in the...

As the morning is the beginning of being engaged in the multiplicity and entering the world, where man is faced with the danger of getting busy with the creatures and neglecting Allah, the conscious sālik , in this crucial situation of entering this dark house, has to turn to Allah, the Exalted, and be devoted to Him.

And as he finds himself not so dignified in the Holy Presence, he is to resort to the guardians of the affairs, the guards of the times, the intercessors of ins and jinn , i.e., the Seal of the Messengers ( s ) and the infallible Imāms (' a ), asking those honorable personalities to be his intermediates to, and his intercessors with, Allah.

Now each day has its guard and shelterer: for Saturday it is the blessed being of the Messenger of Allah ( s ), for Sunday it is Amīr al-Mu'minīn, 'Alī (' a ), for Monday are the two magnificent Imāms, the grandsons [of the Messenger of Allah ( s ), al-Hasan and al-Husayn (' a )], for Tuesday Imāms as-Sajjād, al-Bāqir and as-Sādiq (' a ), for Wednesday Imāms al-Kāzim, ar-Ridā, at-Taqī and an-Naqī (' a ), for Thursday Imām al-'Askarī (' a ), and for Friday waliyy al-amr (may Allah hasten his glorious advent) (The 12th Imām (' a ).[^4] So, it is suitable for one, in the after-the- salāt recitations in the morning, and for the purpose of entering this deadly dark sea, the awful Satanic trap-place, to resort to the guards of that day, and, with their intercession as they are close to the Holy Court and are the favorite confidents at the door of intimacy ask Allah, the Exalted, to remove the evils of Satan and the evil-commanding soul, and to have those great ones as his intermediates for the completion and acceptance of incomplete worshippings and unworthy rites.

Naturally, if Allah, Highly Exalted, made Muhammad ( s ) and his offspring our means of guidance, and through their blessings He saved the ummah from ignorance and straying, He would, because of their intercession, amend our inability and complete our shortcomings, and accept our unworthy obediences and worshippings, “He is the Lord of grace and bounty.” Other reported after-the*-salāt du'ā*'s are stated in the relevant books of invocations.

Everybody may select those which suit him best in order to bring this honorable journey to its good and happy destination. [^1]: Wasā'il ash-Shī'ah, vol. 4, p. 1030, “The Book of the Salāt,” sec. on “After-the-Salāt Invocation,” ch. 14, hadīth 2. [^2]: Furū' al-Kāfī, vol. 3, p. 343, “The Book of the Salāt,” ch.