O He that hears all voices...

O He that hears all voices, O He that gathered everything, O He that created the soul after death, O the causer, O the Inheritor, O master of the masters, O God of gods, O the Mighty over the oppressors, O the King of this world and the Hereafter, O the Lord of the lords, O the King of the kings, O the vigorous, O He that attains extreme vigor, O He that does what He wishes, O He that knows the number of breaths and movement of feet, O He to Whom all secrets are visible, O the starter, O He to Whom returns everything.

I requested from You for the sake of Your right over the best among Your creatures and for the sake of their right You made incumbent on Yourself to send blessing on Muhammad and members of his house and rescue my neck from Hellfire, execute for Your good friends from the descendants of Your Prophet, the callers to Your course with Your permission, Your trustee among Your creatures, Your eyes among Your servants, Your proof among Your creatures, may Your peace and blessings be upon him.

O Allah, support him with Your assistance and assist Your servant, empower his companions and grant them patience.

Open for them a protected authority and hasten his relief, let him prevail over Yours and Your Prophet’s enemies, O the Most Merciful of the merciful ones.[^2] The narrator asked, “May I be sacrificed for you, have you not prayed for yourself?” He (as) replied, “I have prayed for the light of Aale Muhammad (as), the first of them, and the avenger of their enemies by the command of Allah…” I (the narrator) said: May I be sacrificed on you, when will he appear?

He replied: When He, in Whose hand is the creation and the affair, wills. I asked: Are there some signs preceding the reappearance? He replied: Yes, there are a number of signs. I asked: Like? He replied: Coming out of a flag from the east and a flag from the west and seditions, such that the people of Zaura[^3] will be involved in it; advent of a descendant of my uncle, Zaid, in Yemen; destruction of the Kaaba covering. And Allah does what He likes.

Allamah Majlisi has written in Bihar[^4] quoting from Misbah Shaykh Tusi, Baladul Ameen, Jannatul Amaan and Al-Ikhtiyar that: Among the emphasized post-prayer recitations after Zuhr Prayer is: …(the above supplication). I say: Even though the chain of narrators of this report may be technically ‘weak’, but according to the rule of jurisprudence, to take easy the proof of recommended deeds, their result is all right.