A Companion of the Imam’s complained to him of his accumulated debts against
him, and he, peace be on him, wrote him the following supplication and ordered
him to supplicate (Allah) with it:
“O Allah, repay to all Your creatures their complaints against me, small and
great, through ease and well-being from You, and that which my strength cannot
reach, my own hand cannot embrace, my body, my certainty, and my soul cannot
endure. So repay it on my behalf from the plentiful You have from Your favor.
Then do not let anything of it remain behind me to settle it of my good deeds. O
Most Merciful of the merciful! I testify that there is no god apart from Allah,
Who is unique and without partners, that Mohammad is His servant and His
Prophet, that the religion is just as He Has legislate, that Islam is just as He
has described, that the Book is just as He has revealed, that the speech is just
as He has related, and that Allah is the Clear Truth. Allah has mentioned
Mohammad and his Household in a good way, and He has greeted Mohammad and his
Household with (the greeting) salam.”