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Supplications of the Hajj

The supplications below are taken from the Book al-Adhkr by Imam alNawawi.

Entering Ihrm
One should enter ihrm after performing a ghusl, ritual bath with the adhkr
and supplications related to the acts of purification. The pilgrim then prays two
raka of salh reading Qul y ayuhal kfirn in the first and Qul huwAllhu
Ahad in the second.
One then intends to perform the Hajj by saying:

I intend to perform the Hajj and have sanctified myself for it.
It is also good if one says the following:

O Allah I have sanctified myself, my hair, my skin, my flesh and my blood.
One then reads the talbiya, the call of response:

I am Yours O Allah, I am Yours, You have no partner, all praise is due to You,
to You belongs everything and therein You have no partner.
With the first call of the talbiya immediately after making intention one may
say:

I am Yours O Allah, I am Yours coming to perform Hajj, You have no partner,
all praise is due to You, to You belongs everything and therein You have no
partner.
One continues reading the talbiya call until one reaches the Kaba, the Sacred
House.
It is sunna for a male to raise his voice when making talbiya. Both males and
females should follow the third talbiya with salawt ala al-nabi, dua especially
asking for Allahs pleasure (ridwn) and His garden (jannah).

Entering Makka and seeing the Kaba

When the pilgrim enters the Sacred City, the pilgrim says:

O Allah, this is Your sanctuary and place of safety so sanctify me by
preventing me from entering the Fire and make me safe from Your
punishment on the Day on which You resurrect Your slaves and make me of
Your friends and the people of Your obedience.
Then one should supplicate for whatever one wishes.
It is said that the heavens open when one sees the House of God for the first
time. One should say:

O Allah increase this house in honour, greatness, dignity and awe and
increase whoever, among those who make pilgrimage to it, honours it and
dignifies it in honour, dignity, greatness and righteousness.
And:

O Allah You are peace, from You is peace, enliven us with peace.
And then one supplicates for whatever they want.

The tawf, circumambulation of the Kaba

One begins the tawf at the Black Stone. One greets it saying:

In the name of Allah; Allah is greatest; O Allah, with faith in You, with belief in
Your book, fulfilling Your covenant and following the way of Your Prophet,
upon him be peace.
One repeats this at the beginning of each circumambulation.
It is sunna to say in the first three circumambulations:

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O Allah, make it an unblemished pilgrimage, with sins forgiven and a feat of
gratitude.
And in the last four to say:

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O Allah forgive and show mercy, pardon that which You know, You are the
most mighty and most honourable. O Allah, our Lord, grant us goodness in

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this world and goodness in the next and keep us from the punishment of the
Fire.
Hasan al-Basri says that the last supplication is recommended in at least
fifteen places in the pilgrimage, including the Sai, Mina, Arafat, Muzdalifa and
when stoning the jamart.
Imam al-Shfi says the last supplication should be read throughout the
pilgrimage. He also said that it is preferable to read Quran in the tawf.
After the tawf, the pilgrim should pray two raka of prayer and make the
following supplication:

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O Allah, I am Your slave, the child of Your slave, I have come with many sins
and bad actions and this is the station that lifts from the Fire, so forgive me for
You are the All-forgiving, All-merciful.
If it is possible the pilgrim should go to the Hijr of Ismail and pray and
supplicate and to supplicate at the Multazim which is between the Black Stone
and the door of the Kaba.

The Sai
The Sai is performed by moving between the foot of the hill of Saf and the
foot of the hill of Marw. One starts at Saf and ends at Marw after moving
between the two hills seven times.
It is sunna to prolong the standing at Saf and at Marw, glorify Allah and say:

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Allah is greatest! Allah is greatest! Allah is greatest! To Allah belongs all
praise. Allah is greatest in that He guided us, all praise is to Allah over what
He has entrusted us. There is no god but Allah alone without partner. To Him
belongs the whole dominion and all praise. He brings to life and causes death.
Goodness is in His Hands and He is over all things powerful. There is no god
but Allah. He fulfilled his promise, assisted His slave and destroyed the
parties alone. There is no god but Allah and we worship not but He, sincerely
with the entire religion belonging to Him even if the disbelievers abhor it. O
Allah You said and your words are true call me and I will answer you and
surely You would not break your promise. So I therefore ask You to, just as
You guided us to Islam, to not take it from me so that it remains in tact and I
die as a Muslim.
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When one is moving between the two hills one should read:

O Lord, forgive! Show mercy! Overlook that which You certainly know for You
are the Most Mighty yet Most generous. O Allah, grant us goodnessin this
world and in the goodness in the next and keep us from the punishment of the
Fire.
One of the supplications of the Sai which is appropriate in every place is:

O Allah, O Turner of Hearts, make my heart firm upon Your religion.
O Allah, I ask you those things that necessitate Your mercy and lead to Your
forgiveness and safety from every sin and the prize of the Garden and
deliverance from the Fire. O Allah, I ask You for guidance, righteousness,
purity and wealth. O Allah, assist me in Your remembrance, expression of
gratitude to You and Your worship. O Allah, I ask you for every good that
which I know of and that which I do not! And I seek refuge in You from all evil
that which I know of and that I do not! And I ask You for the Garden and all
words and deeds which bring me close to it. And I seek refuge in You from the
Fire and all words and deeds which bring me close to it.
After completing the Sai, one leaves the state of Ihram by cutting ones hair
or shaving in the case of men.
This completes the Umra. If one is only performing the Hajj, one does not
have to perform the Sai as the tawf will be sufficient.
One should leave Makka on the 8th of Dhul Hijja and travel to Mina.
When leaving for Mina, one should say:

O Allah, in You I place my hope and upon You, I call. Allow me to fulfil my
righteous aspirations. Forgive my sins. Bless me as You blessed the people
of Your obedience. You have power over all things.
When leaving for Araft from Mina, one should say:
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To You I direct my face and Your Noble Countenance is what I want. Make
my sins forgiven and my Hajj a blessed one. Show me Mercy and do not
leave me empty handed. You have power over all things.
The most important supplication on Araft is:

There is not god but Allah alone without partner. To Him belongs the dominion
and all praise and He has power over all things.
It has also been narrated that the prayer that the Prophet, upon him be peace
made most on Araft was:

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O Allah, to You is all praise I make and better than the praise I offer. To You
belongs my prayer and my sacrifice. From You, O my Lord, is my legacy. O
Allah, I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave and whisperings
of the breast and the disintegration of the affair. O Allah I seek refuge with
You from all evil that comes with the wind.
One should busy oneself with supplication on Araft. Among the prayers that
should be read in all places in the Hajj is:

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O Allah grant me goodness in this world and goodness in the next.

Allah says about these days:

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Then when ye pour down from (Mount) Arafat, celebrate the praises of Allah
at the Sacred Monument, and celebrate His praises as He has directed you,
even though, before this, ye went astray.
(al-Baqara 2:198)
This verse refers to flowing from Araft towards Muzdalifa where one spends
the night in worship and then moving to the hill known as al-Mashar al-Harm
in the morning.
When leaving Araft and during the rest of the night, it is recommended to
read the talbiya, Quran and to supplicate and make remembrance Allah. This
is the night prior to Eid and it is recommended that one spends it in worship
and remembrance of Allah.
The duas recommended above should be read here, especially:

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O my Lord grant me goodness in this world and goodness in the next.
The following supplication has been narrated from the scholars:

O Allah, surely I ask you to provide for me, in this [sacred] place, the
gathering together of all goodness and to put right my affair and repel from me
all harm. For surely no one can do that other than You. And no one shows
that generosity except You.
It is sunna to pray the fajr prayer early and then to move to the hill known as
al-Mashar al-Harm if this is possible. One may climb the hill or supplicate at
the foot, saying:

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O Allah, just as You enabled us to this and enabled us to remember You and
how You guided us, forgive us and show us mercy as You promised us
through Your words and Your words are true Then when ye pour down
from (Mount) Arafat, celebrate the praises of Allah at the Sacred Monument,
and celebrate His praises as He has directed you, even though, before this,
ye went astray.

When leaving the Mashar al-Harm, one should continue supplicating and
reading the talbiya as this the last opportunity to make the talbiya in the Hajj.
When one arrives in Mina, it is recommended to read:

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All praise is to Allah who allowed us to reach it safely and in a good state. O
Allah this is Mina we have indeed come and I am Your slave in Your grasp I
ask you to bestow blessings on me as you bestowed blessings on Your
friends. O Allah I seek refuge in You from rejection and tribulations in my
religion. O Most Merciful of Merciful Ones.
At Mina, one stones the Jamara at Aqaba. It is not sunna to stand to
supplicate.
If you slaughter your sacrifice yourself, you should say:

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In the name of Allah. Allah is greatest. O Allah send prayers and salutations
upon Muhammad and his family. O Allah [everything] is from You and returns
to You and so accept this from me.
One should exit from ihrm saying:

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All praise is to Allah for the way He has guided us. All praise is to Allah or
what he has bestowed upon us. O Allah this is my forelock accept it from
me and forgive me my sins. O Allah forgiven those who shaved their heads
and those who cut their hair O You who is generous in forgiveness.
And after shaving ones head, one should say:

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All praise is to Allah who completed for us the rites. O Allah, increase us in
faith and certainty and enablement and divine assistance. Forgive us and our
forefathers and foremothers and all Muslims.
After leaving ihram one travels to Makka to do the tawf and sai. The
supplications for this have been discussed above.
This only leaves the final days of the Hajj, which are called the Days of
Tashrq where the nights should be spent in Mina and the jamart should be
stoned on each of these days.
Imm al-Nawawi says that these days should be spent in remembrance of
Allah and he says the best of these is recitation of Quran.
When stoning the jamart it is sunna to face Makka and praise Allah, glorify
Him and state His oneness and then supplicate at each of the first two pillars
but not at the third.
Before leaving Makka, one must circumambulate the Kaba with the intention
of tawf al-wada (farewell tawaf). This should be your last act of worship in
Makka and should be delayed as long as possible. After it one should
supplicate with the following prayer

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O Allah! The House is Your House. The slave is Your slave and the son of
Your slave. You brought me here by making subservient elements of Your
creation so that I could travel to Your land. You made me reach Your favours
and took care of me so I could complete Your rites. So, if You are pleased
with me, increase that contentment with me and bless me now before my
home calls me away from Your House and do not allow me departure if You
allow me to leave a case of turning my back on You or on Your House or a
desire for anything but You or Your House. O Allah! Provide me well being in
my body and protection in my religion and make all turns of events good for
me and provide me with [opportunities for] worshiping You for what remains of
my life and gather for me the goodness of this world and the next for surely
You have power over all things.
May Allah accept your pilgrimage and that of all the Muslims. mn.

This completes the Hajj and after this one should visit the Prophet in Madina if
you did not do this prior to the pilgrimage.
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