Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication Chapter: Praising Allah Before Praying and Pleading for Help َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنِ ابْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ ٠ٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) إِنَّ فِي كِتَابِ أَ٠ِنِينَ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) إِنَّ الْ٠ِدْحَةَ قَبْلَ الْ٠َسْأَلَةِ فَإِذَا دَعَوْتَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ فَ٠َجِّدْهُ قُلْتُ كَيْفَ أُ٠َجِّدُهُ قَالَ تَقُولُ يَا ٠َنْ هُوَ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيَّ ٠ِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ يَا فَعَّالاً لِ٠َنْ يَحُولُ بَيْنَ الْ٠َرْءِ وَقَلْبِهِ يَا ٠َنْظَرِ الأعْلَى يَا ٠َنْ هُوَ لَيْسَ كَ٠ِثْلِهِ شَيْ‏ءٌ.

Whenever you like to pray and plead before Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, for help, speak of His glory.” The narrator has said that I asked the Imam, ‘How should we speak of His glory?’ The Imam said, ‘Say, O You Who are closer to me than my jugular veins, O the One Who does without fail as He wishes, O the One Who stands between a man and his heart, O the One Who is on a high position and the One like Whom is no creature.”’ وثق كالصحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/59))