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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. O Allah, I ask You for the goodness of this matter (retirement) and the goodness of what is in it and the goodness of what it was created with. And I seek refuge in You from the evil of this matter and the evil of what is in it and the evil of what it was created with. O Allah, I ask You for lawful and good provision.
O Allah, I ask You for its goodness and the goodness of what is in it and the goodness of what it has been sent with. And I seek refuge in You from its evil and the evil of what is in it and the evil of what it has been sent with.
I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created.
O Allah, I ask You for steadfastness in all matters, and determination in righteousness. I ask You to grant me the ability to be grateful for Your blessings and to worship You in the best way. I ask You for a sound heart and a truthful tongue. I seek refuge in You from the evil of what You know, and I ask You for the good of what You know. I seek Your forgiveness for what You know. Indeed, You are the Knower of all hidden things.
O Allah, I seek Your guidance through Your knowledge, and I seek ability through Your power, and I ask of Your great bounty. For You decree and I have no power, You know and I have no knowledge, and You are the Knower of the unseen. O Allah, if You know that this matter – and name your need: choosing a mentor for me – is good for me in my religion, my livelihood, and my end (or he said: in my present and future affairs), then decree it for me, make it easy for me, and bless it for me. And if You know that this matter is bad for me in my religion, my livelihood, and my end (or he said: in my present and future affairs), then turn it away from me and turn me away from it, and decree for me whatever is good, and make me pleased with it.
O Allah, suffice me with Your lawful provision instead of Your unlawful provision, and make me independent by Your grace instead of the provision of others.
O Allah, I ask You for the good of it, the good of what is within it, and the good of its people. And I seek refuge in You from the evil of it, the evil of what is within it, and the evil of its people.
O Allah, I am Your slave, son of Your slave, son of Your female slave. My forelock is in Your hand. Your command over me is inevitable. Your decree concerning me is just. I ask You by every name that You have called Yourself, or taught to any one of Your creation, or revealed in Your Book, or preserved in the knowledge of the unseen with You, that You make the Qur'an the springtime of my heart, the light of my chest, the banisher of my sadness, and the remover of my anxieties.
O Allah, You have made my form beautiful, so make my character beautiful.
Praise be to Allah, abundant, good, and blessed praise, which is not insufficient, nor is it bid farewell, nor is it dispensable from our Lord. O Allah, feed those who fed me and give drink to those who gave me to drink.
All praise is due to Allah, Who has clothed me with this (garment) and provided it for me, without any strength or power on my part.
O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the male and female devils (or evil spirits, or impurity and impurity-causing things).