Supplication is one of the best acts of worship that is recommended at all times, and millions of Muslims are searching for the times of blessings in which they hope to be answered, and one of these times that many people like to pray is the night of the Isra and Mi’raj, and although scholars differed in determining its date, the Egyptian Fatwa House adopts the opinion of a number of scholars. Scholars say that it coincides with the twenty-seventh night of the month of Rajab, that blessed night in which God took His Noble Messenger from the Sacred Mosque to Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it is desirable to commemorate it with various types of worship, obedience, and closeness.
A supplication at dawn on the night of Isra’ and Mi’raj
A supplication at the dawn of the night of the Isra’ and Mi’raj, or at the dawn of any night, especially at the time of dawn, is considered a desirable act of worship, as a person feels close to God by supplicating. Below are a number of supplications that can be repeated, but not limited to:
“O God, to You I complain of the weakness of my strength, my lack of resourcefulness, and my disdain for people, O Most Merciful of the merciful. You are the Lord of the oppressed, and You are my Lord, to whom do you turn? Me, to a faraway person who frowns upon me, or to an enemy over whom my command is dominion, if you are not angry with me, I do not care, but Your well-being is greater for me. I seek refuge in the light of your face, to which the darkness has shone, and the affairs of this world and the hereafter have been made right for it, from your wrath descending on me, or Your wrath will befall me. I will admonish you until you are satisfied. There is no power or strength except through you.
There are many supplications in which a Muslim can ask God for the good of this world and the hereafter at all times, whether on the anniversary of the Night Journey or Mi’raj or elsewhere. These supplications include, for example:
Prayer on the night of Isra and Mi’raj
“O God, make me happy as much as I have suffered, and comfort me as much as I am tired, and do not disappoint me, for you are my suffice and the best disposer of affairs. O God, open my chest to me and keep away from me all distress. My Lord, do not leave sadness without replacing it, and no grief without relieving it, and no anxiety except that you make me a way out of it. O God, you are the answer and I am forced to you, O God. You are the rich and I am the poor to You. Oh God, I raised my hands to You in need, so do not reject them. You are the Hearer of supplication. You have delegated my affairs to the one who does not forget who mentions Him, does not disappoint the one who hopes for him, and does not turn away the one who asks him.
“O Lord, I entrust you with supplications that my heart overflows with, so answer me. O God, O God, do not reject our supplication and do not disappoint our hope.”
“O God, I am your servant, the son of your servant, the son of your female slave, my forelock is in your hand, I proceed in your judgment, I am just in your decree. I ask you with every name that is yours that you have named yourself with, or revealed in your book, or taught to anyone of your creation, or kept reserved in the knowledge of the unseen with you, that you make the Qur’an the spring of my heart and the light of my chest and a majesty. My sadness and my worries go away.”
“O God, You do not burden a soul beyond its capacity, so do not burden me with the distress of life that I cannot bear, and distance me from the misfortunes of this world as You distanced between the East and the West.”
