Dua Al-Ahad

Sayyid ibn Tawus, Kafami and other Ulama, narrate from various books that Imam as Sadiq (as) has said:

"Whoever reads the following Dua for forty days straight makes a promise with Allah (swt), and he will be one of the helpers of al-Qaim (ajtf), and if one dies before the rise of al-Qaim, then Allah will raise one up from the grave so that one may be able to help the Imam. Allah will grant one who reads this Dua 1000 good deeds for every letter recited and will forgive 1000 sins for every letter recited."

Bismillah Arahman Araheem. Allahumma sale ala Muhammad wa ale Muhammad.

O Allah, the Sustainer of the Great Light, the Exalted Throne, and the tempestuous sea, the revealer of the Taurat, Injil and Zabur, the Sustainer of the shade and the heat, the Revealer of the great Qur'an, the Sustainer of the honored angels, Prophets and the Messengers:

O Allah, I beseech You by Your benevolent countenance and its brilliance and eternal kingdom; O the Ever Living, O the Self-subsisting, by Your name which illuminates the heavens and the earths and by Your name by which the predecessors and the posterity are reformed, O the Everpresent before any living thing existed and the Everlasting even after all life will cease. O Ever-living even when there was no life at all, O One who resurrects the dead and brings death to the living, O Ever-living, there is no God except You.

O Allah, convey to our Master, the Imam (as), the guide, the guided, the one established in authority by Your command, may Your blessings be on him and on his pure ancestors, from all the faithful male and female, in the East and the West of the world, in the plains or on the mountains, on the lands and in the sea, and from me and my parents, blessings that equal in weight the "Throne" of Allah, the ink of His words and such as only encompassed by His knowledge and covered by His book.

O Allah, I renew on the dawn of this day and all the days of the remainder of my life my pledge, covenant and allegiance to him, as my obligation, which I shall neither ever contravene nor neglect.

O Allah, include me amongst his helpers, defenders, those fulfilling his wishes and commands, his defenders, the fore-runners to carry out his intentions and those to be martyred in his presence.

O Allah, should death intervene between me and his reappearance -- the death which You have made inevitable on Your servants -- let me out from my grave covered in my shroud, my sword unsheathed, my spear poised responding to the call of the caller in the cities and deserts.

O Allah, grace me with a sight of the appearance of one rightly guided and the finest of the praise worthy and cool my eyes with a light of one in whom I am attentive and hasten his return, render his reappearance smooth and widen his path and lead me onto his path and cause his orders to be executed and strengthen his back. O Allah, populate Your cities through him and revive your servants for indeed You have said and Your words are true: 'Mischief has shown its face on the lands and in the seas on account of what the hands of men have wrought.' (Qur'an 30:41)

O Allah, present this from us to Your friend and the son of the daughter of Your Prophet who bears the name of Your Messenger until he destroys all untruth and manifests the truth fully.

O Allah, make him the refuge for Your oppressed servants and a helper for him who has no other helper besides You and the reviver of the commandments in Your book which has been neglected and the strengthener of the sciences in Your religion and the traditions of Your Prophet. May Allah's blessing be upon him and his progeny.

O Allah, please him among those whom You have protected from the oppression of the oppressors.

O Allah, please Your Prophet Muhammad, may the blessings of Allah be upon him and his progeny, and those who will obey the invitation of the Imam and have mercy on our state of abasement after his appearance.

O Allah, spare us this grief from this Ummah by his reappearance and hasten his reappearance for 'verily they (hypocrites) regard it to be far distant and we see it very near' (Qur'an 70:6-7) by Your mercy, O the most Merciful.

[Strike one's right thigh three times and each time recite the following:]

Hasten, Hasten, O My Master, O Master of the time ---- Al'Ajal, Al'Ajal, Ya Mawla Ya Saahiba- Zaman.