How is khatm al-Quran prayer said?

Dear Brother / Sister,

“Amin! Alhamdu lillahi rabbil-alamin, wal-aqibatu lil-muttaqin was-salatu was-salamu ala sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa ashabihi ajmain.”

O Sublime Lord!

You are merciful to all Your creatures and gracious to Your believing servants in particular; we have come to Your door and are begging You with our prayers and supplications; accept our prayers and do not turn us away from the door of forgiveness, O Allah!

You are the sole dominant power and owner of the Day of Judgment; have mercy on us there and protect us from the torment of Hell, O Lord!

We serve You alone and seek help only from You; never separate us from the path of worship and obedience, O Allah!

O Allah! Enable us all to stay on the path of guidance, to be among Your pious servants, and to spend our lives in this world with chastity and honor!

We seek refuge in Your pleasure from Your wrath, in Your forgiveness from Your punishment, in Your infinite mercy from the evil of Satan; You are forgiving; You love to forgive. Forgive us too, O Allah!

Accept the khatm al-Quran in Your sanctuary.

We have gifted the reward of it to the pure spirit of our beloved Prophet Muhammad Mustafa (PBUH) first; convey it to him, O Lord!

We have gifted it to the spirits of other prophets, the spirits of the Companions and the Tabi’un, to the spirits of the scholars and martyrs who served the religion of Islam with their knowledge and swords; convey it to them, O Lord!

We have gifted it to the spirits of the deceased people of our congregation who say amin, to the spirits of all the deceased people of those who caused this gathering, to the spirits of our Muslim brothers and sisters who have no one left in the world to remember them; convey it to them, O Lord!

We have gifted it especially to the spirits of the deceased people of everyone who participated and contributed to this khatm al-Quran; convey it to them, O Lord! If they have sins, convert them into good deeds, O Allah!

Enable all our brothers and sisters who participated in this khatm al-Quran to attain what their hearts desire with goodness and to be pure light with Your light in both worlds! Remove all their troubles, if any, O Lord!

Do not leave us without You at this time when we need Your forgiveness, mercy and grace more than ever, O Lord! We are begging you; we have come to your door; do not turn us away empty, O Lord!

O Allah! You know that we have never called anyone other than You Lord; we have served only You and asked for your help only; and we know that we have done things that You are not pleased with, but You are our Lord; we have no way to go to anyone other than You. You are our Lord in punishing us; and You are our Lord in forgiving us. You are gracious and merciful if You forgive us.

You are forgiving; You love forgiveness; forgive us, O Lord...

Illuminate the graves of those who passed into the hereafter, whose bones decayed and who are in need of al-Fatiha with the light of the Quran. May their stations be in paradise, O Allah!

Make the light of their belief and the Quran their partner in their graves! Make their graves among gardens of paradise; do not make them resemble the pits of hell, O Lord!

If there are those who are suffering from the torment of the grave because of their mistakes as human beings, save them for the sake of the Quran, O Allah! Forgive them for the sake of the beloved Prophet (pbuh), O Allah! Have mercy on them, O Allah, for the sake of the Kaaba al-Muazzama, Ravda al-Mutahhara and other holy places!

You know the situation of all our Muslim brothers and sisters who have been subjected to oppression all over the world, O Allah! Make the oppressors improve, O Lord! If it is not possible for them to improve, devastate them with Your name al-Qahhar (the Subduer), O Allah!

While we are here in a comfortable place with a full stomach and a roof over our heads, even praying seems hard for our souls; what about those Muslim brothers waiting to die in the cold, in hunger and in a corner in the middle of the night all over the world right now? What if one of them says, “I am waiting for the day when I will ask my Muslim brother who withholds even a prayer from me while I am here in this state.” How can we give account of it? O Allah! Grant us this awareness! 

Enable us to pass away from this world by saying “Ashhadu an la ilaha illallah wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluh” in our last breath, and to pass away without leaving the true, clean and enlightened path of belief and Islam, O Lord!

Make our religion, which is our honor, our world and our hereafter prosperous.

Protect us from the evil of our eyes, ears, hearts and all the other parts of our body

O our Lord, who is in control of the hearts! Keep us and our family members in obedience to You and in the deeds that will attain Your consent and in Your right path!

We seek refuge in You from raising our hands to You with prayers that will not be accepted, from knowledge that is not beneficial to humanity and Islam, from weakness, laziness and stinginess that do not fit a Muslim. Protect us, O Lord!

Make Your servants who say amin lofty in both worlds. Bless us with Your paradise and beauty and accept our supplication in Your sublime sanctuary, O Lord!

In short, the essence of the prayers: We ask You for all the good deeds that our beloved Prophet (pbuh) asked from You! Grant them to us, O Lord! We seek refuge in You from all the evil, mischief, sedition and discord that our beloved Prophet (pbuh) sought refuge in You! Protect us all, O Allah!

Forgive the sins of everyone who participated and did not participate in the prayer of khatm al-Quran with your vast forgiveness, O Lord!

Grant us blessings that are greater and larger than we can ever imagine, O Lord!

Enable us to be under Your shadow on that terrible day of reckoning when there is no shadow, O Allah!

Make us neighbors in paradise with the friends who participated in this khatm al-Quran, O Lord!

“Subhana Rabbika Rabbil-izzati amma yasifun wa salamun alal-mursalin wal-hamdu lillahi Rabbil-alamin”

For the spirits of all our deceased people and our beloved Prophet (pbuh), for the sake of Allah Taala, al-Fatiha.

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