Hisn al-Muslim 27
((يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ بِرَحْمَتِكَ أَسْتَغيثُ أَصْلِحْ لِي شَأْنِيَ كُلَّهُ وَلاَ تَكِلْنِي إِلَى نَفْسِي طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ)).
ya hayyu ya qayyum, bi-rahmatika astaghith, wa aslih li sha'ni kullahu wa la takilni ila nafsi tarfata 'aynin abada
O Ever-Living, O Self-Sustaining, by Your mercy I seek help, rectify all my affairs and do not leave me to myself even for the blink of an eye.
Source: Hisn al-Muslim · Reference: Hisn al-Muslim 27
Translation: dua-dhikr (fitrahive), free redistribution
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The supplication opens by addressing two names together, the Ever-Living and the Self-Sustaining, and then asks by means of His mercy rather than on any other grounds. Two requests follow. The first is comprehensive — that all affairs be set right, with none excepted. The second asks not to be handed over to oneself, and it attaches a duration to that request.
For the morning, and for the evening as well.
The measure chosen for that second request is the blink of an eye, the smallest interval the wording could have named. What is asked against is not a long abandonment but any gap at all.
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It is recorded at Hisn al-Muslim 27:88.
The English of it is: “O Ever-Living, O Self-Sustaining, by Your mercy I seek help, rectify all my affairs and do not leave me to myself even for the blink of an eye.” The supplication opens by addressing two names together, the Ever-Living and the Self-Sustaining, and then asks by means of His mercy rather than on any other grounds.
Transliterated: “ya hayyu ya qayyum, bi-rahmatika astaghith, wa aslih li sha'ni kullahu wa la takilni ila nafsi tarfata 'aynin abada”
For the morning, and for the evening as well. The measure chosen for that second request is the blink of an eye, the smallest interval the wording could have named.