The Prayer (Dua) of Yusuf (Joseph) A.S.

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**Chapter 12 Verse 101: **

رَبِّ قَدْ آتَيْتَنِي مِنَ الْمُلْكِ وَعَلَّمْتَنِي مِن تَأْوِيلِ الْأَحَادِيثِ ۚ فَاطِرَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ أَنتَ وَلِيِّي فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ ۖ تَوَفَّنِي مُسْلِمًا وَأَلْحِقْنِي بِالصَّالِحِينَ

“O my Lord! Thou hast indeed bestowed on me some power, and taught me something of the interpretation of dreams and events,- O Thou Creator of the heavens and the earth! Thou art my Protector in this world and in the Hereafter. Take Thou my soul (at death) as one submitting to Thy will (as a Muslim), and unite me with the righteous.”

اے میرے پروردگار! تو نے مجھے ملک عطا فرمایا اور تو نے مجھے خواب کی تعبیر سکھلائی۔ اے آسمان وزمین کے پیدا کرنے والے! تو ہی دنیا وآخرت میں میرا ولی (دوست) اور کارساز ہے، تو مجھے اسلام کی حالت میں فوت کر اور نیکوں میں ملا دے

Joseph?s prayer may be analyzed thus:

(1) I am nothing; all power and knowledge are Thine;
(2) such things can only come from Thee, for Thou art the Creator of all;
(3) none can protect me from danger and wrong, but only Thou;
(4) Thy protection I need both in this world and the next;
(5) may I till death remain constant to Thee;
(6) may I yield up my soul to Thee in cheerful submission to Thy Will;
(7) in this moment of union with my family after many partings let me think of the final union with the great spiritual family of the righteous. How marvelously apt to the occasion!

Reference:
The Holy Qur’an, Text, Translation & Commentary
by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Published in 1977.

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Such a beautiful dua. Specially the last half. A true belief of who God is, and then a lament of how we should ideally be judged in order to be successful