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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

bismillahi alrrahmani alrrahimi

In the Name of Allah, the All-compassionate, the All-merciful.

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أَصْبَحْتُ ٱللَّهُمَّ مُعْتَصِماً بِذِمَامِكَ ٱلْمَنِيعِ

asbahtu allahumma mu`tasiman bidhimamika almani`i

O Allah, I have begun this morning seeking refuge with Your invulnerable security

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ٱلَّذِي لاَ يُطَاوَلُ وَلاَ يُحَاوَلُ

alladhi la yutawalu wa la yuhawalu

that is neither touched nor caught

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مِنْ شَرِّ كُلِّ غَاشِمٍ وَطَارِقٍ

min sharri kulli ghashimin wa tariqin

against the evil of all oppressive and domineering ones

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مِنْ سَائِرِ مَنْ خَلَقْتَ وَمَا خَلَقْتَ

min sa'iri man khalaqta wa ma khalaqta

from among all Your animate and inanimate creatures

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مِنْ خَلْقِكَ ٱلصَّامِتِ وَٱلنَّاطِقِ

min khalqika alssamiti walnnatiqi

both the silent and the speaking;

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في جُنَّةٍ مِنْ كُلِّ مَخُوفٍ

fi junnatin min kulli makhufin

and being in protection against all terrifying things;

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بِلِبَاسٍ سَابِغَةٍ

bilibasin sabighatin

and being in the complete garb

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وَلاَءِ أَهْلِ بَيْتِ نَبِيِّكَ

wa la'i ahli bayti nabiyyika

of my loyalty to the Household of Your Prophet;

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مُحْتَجِباً مِنْ كُلِّ قَاصِدٍ لِي إِلىٰ أَذِيَّةٍ

muhtajiban min kulli qasidin li ila adhiyyatin

and veiling myself against all those who intend harm to me,

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بِجِدَارٍ حَصِينٍ

bijidarin hasinin

behind an impervious wall,

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ٱلإِخْلاَصِ فِي ٱلإِعْتِرَافِ بِحَقِّهِمْ

al-ikhlasi fil-i`tirafi bihaqqihim

which is my sincerity in the profession of their (Divinely commissioned) right (of leadership)

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وَٱلتَّمَسُّكِ بَحَبْلِهِمْ

walttamassuki bihablihim

and my adherence to their Rope,

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مُوقِناً أَنَّ ٱلْحَقَّ لَهُمْ وَمَعَهُمْ

muqinan anna alhaqqa lahum wa ma`ahum

and bearing with certainty that the Right is theirs, with them,

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وَفيهِمْ وَبِهِمْ

wa fihim wa bihim

in them, and amid them.

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أُوَالِي مَنْ وَالَوْٱ

uwali man walaw

I thus accede to those whom they accept

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وَأُجَانِبُ مَنْ جَانَبُوٱ

wa ujanibu man janabu

and depart those whom they depart.

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فَأَعِذْنِي اَللَّهُمَّ بِهِمْ

fa-a`idhni allahumma bihim

O Allah, protect me, in the names of them,

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مِنْ شَرِّ كُلِّ مَا أَتَّقيهِ يَا عَظِيمُ

min sharri kulli ma attaqihi ya `azimu

against the evil of all that which I fear, O All-great.

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حَجَزْتُ ٱلأَعَادِيَ عَنِّي بِبَدِيعِ ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلأَرْضِ

hajaztu al-a`adiya `anni bibadi`i alssamawati wal-ardi

I am restraining the enemies against me through the Originator of the heavens and the earth;

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وَجَعَلْنَا مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْديهِمِ سَدّاً

inna ja`alna min bayni aydihim saddan

“And We have set a bar before them

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وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِمْ سَدّاً

wa min khalfihim saddan

and a bar behind them,

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فَأَغْشَيْنَاهُمْ فَهُمْ لاَ يُبْصِرُونَ

fa-aghshaynahum fahum la yubsiruna

and (thus) have covered them so that they see not.”