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Prayer for Your Parents
Submitted by Sumayya

O lord bless Mohamed, your servant and your apostle and the holy people of his house.
Distinguish them particularly with the best of your favour, Mercy, Blessings and Peace
Distinguish, O lord, my parents with excellence before you and grace from you, O most merciful.
O lord my parents with excellence before you and grace from you o most merciful.
O lord bless Mohamed and his descendants.
Acquaints me by inspiration with the knowledge of what is due towards them from me collect for me the complete knowledge of all this.
Cause me to act according to what you did reveal to me by inspiration.
Give me grace to penetrate into such of this knowledge and you did teach me until I omit to perform nothing you have taught me. Do not let my limbs grow heavy (so as prevent them) from discharge of you did reveal onto me.
O lord bless Mohamed and his descendants as you have exalted us with him. Favour Mohamed and his descendants as you have given us claims upon your creation because of him.
Make me fear my parents as I would fear a severe ruler and love them with the tenderness of an indulgent mother.
Let my obedience to my parents as I would and beneficence to them be sweeter to my eyes than sleep is to drowsy, cooler to my heart than drinking water is so thirsty, until I give preference to their wishes over mine and priority to the satisfaction of their needs over mine.
Let me over value their kindness to me even in small things and under value my kindness to them, even in great things.
O lord…
Let me lower my voice for them.
Let my speech be agreeable to them
Soften my conduct towards them
Let my heart be kind to them Make me tender and lenient unto the both.
O lord, reward them for bringing me up.
Recompense them for loving me.
Guard them as they guarded me in infancy.
O lord whatever pain they may have received from me, whatever displeasure may have caused to them by me, or whatever duty owed to them that was left unperformed by me , let that be a pardon of their sins, an exaltation of their rank and an addition to their good deeds.
O you who does change evil deeds into multiplied good deeds!
O lord that speech in witch they were unjust to me, or that action in witch they were extravagant against me, or such of my claims as they failed to satisfy, or such debts as they failed to discharge , verily, I forgive them , and favour them therewith.
I turn towards you with a view to removing the penalty thereof from them.
For verily I do not  accuse them falsely of having done something to my hurt, nor do I deem the negligent in doing good to me, nor I despise the care they took for me, O lord!
Because their claim upon me is so great, their benevolence to me so magnificent and I am so highly obliged to them, that I cannot fairly meet it, nor repay them as they deserve.
O my God, how can I repay them for their tedious employment in bringing me up. For their hard labour in guarding me.
For their self-denial to lavish upon me!
Alas! Alas1 (I cannot)
Their claim can never be satisfied by me, nor can I perceive what is not due from me to them nor I can fully discharge the duty of serving them!
Therefore, bless Mohamed and his descendants. Help me. O best of all those whose assistance is solicited. Give me grace, O greatest of guides, towards whom people turn.
O lord, bless Mohamed and his descendants. Distinguish my parents in particular with the best distinctions witch you have conferred upon the fathers and mothers your true believing servants O most merciful.
O lord, do not let me forget to remember them after my ritual prayers ant every time of night and every time of my day.
O god bless Mohamed and his descendants
Forgive me for the sake of my prayers for them grant sure pardon to them because of their goodness to me
Be perfectly satisfied with them through my intersection for them.
Bring them by your mercy into places of safety.
O god if you pardon for me has preceded my prayers, then make them intercessors for me.
If you pardon for me has preceded then make me an intercessor for them so that we may gather together by your mercy.
For verily you are the one whose munificence is great, whose kindness is eternal you are the most merciful!