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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Dua On the Day of Arafa From Imam Hussain (a.s) and Imam Sajjad (a.s) Endnotes [^1]: The ninth of Dhu l-Hijja, the last day of the hajj, when the pilgrims occupy themselves with prayer at Mount 'Arafa. Cf. Imam Husayn's long supplication for the day, translated in Chittick, A Shi'ite Anthology, pp. 93-113. [^3]: Cf. 15: 21-23: Naught is there, but its treasuries are with Us, and We send it not down but in a known measure...

It is We who give life, and make to die, and it is We who are the inheritors. [^5]: Reference to 10:61: Not so much as the weight of an ant in earth or heaven escapes from thy Lord... [^8]: Reference to 25:2: He created everything, then He ordained it with an ordination. [^9]: Allusion to 80:20: He created him [man] and determined him then the way eased for him. [^10]: Perhaps an allusion to 32:5: He governs the affair from the heaven to the earth.

[^11]: Reference to 72:28: He has counted everything in numbers. [^12]: The terms 'howness' and 'whereness' are found already in hadith attributed to the Prophet in Shi'ite sources, as well as to some of the Imams (cf. Chittick, A Shi'ite Anthology index under ayniyyah and kayfiyyah. The term 'selfness' (dhatiyya) is certainly more rare.

Lane in his Lexicon points out that it is a post-classical term used in philosophy, but in the present context it has no such philosophical sense and seems to be a coinage built on the analogy of the other two terms. [^13]: Reference to sura 112. [^14]: The 'Separator' is the Qur'an (cf. Supplication 42.2). There is an allusion here to 15:94: Therefore cleave [0 Muhammad] by means of that which thou art commanded [i.e. the Qur'anic injunctions] and turn away from the idolaters.

[^15]: Reference to 6:115. [^16]: The guardians or writers are the recording angels. Cf. Supplication 3.18. The 'book' mentioned here is referred to in such verses as: The Book shall be set in place; and thou wilt see the sinners fearful at what is in it and saying: 'Alas for us! How is it with this Book that it leaves nothing behind, small or great but it has numbered it?' (18:49).

[^17]: Allusion to 18:109: Say: 'If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the words of my Lord are spent.' [^18]: Reference to 33:33: Folk of the House, God only desires to put away from you uncleanness and to purify you.