# Dua-e-Ghareeq

**Urdu title:** دُعاء غریق

**Section:** Dua -- Fatima Zahra Imamia Centre devotional library
**Page:** https://fzic.org/library/dua/dua-e-ghareeq-2589

## About this text

Dua-e-Ghareeq, the supplication of the drowning man, is a short and urgent plea for steadfastness of faith: "O Allah, O Beneficent, O Merciful, O One who turns the hearts, keep my heart firm upon Your religion."

It is narrated from Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (a), who taught that in a time of confusion, when the guiding signs are hidden, none will hold to the true faith except those who recite it, and so it is to be said with the urgency of one who is drowning, which gives the dua its name. It is especially associated with the period of the occultation (ghaybah) of Imam al-Mahdi (ajtf), and closes, as supplications do, with salawat upon the Prophet Muhammad and his holy progeny.

## Text

- Arabic: بِسْمِ اللہِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ
- Transliteration: BISMILLAAHIR RAHMAANIR RAHEEM
- English: In the Name of Allah, the most Gracious, the most Merciful.
- Urdu: اللہ کے نام سے (شروع کرتا ہوں) جو بڑا مہربا ن نہایت رحم کرنے والا ہے۔

- Arabic: یَااَللہُ یَارَحْمٰنُ یَارَحِیْمُ۔ یَامُقَلِّبَ الْقُلُوْبِ، ثَبِّتْ قَلْبِیْ عَلٰی دِیْنِكَ۔
- Transliteration: YAA ALLAAHO YAA RAHMAANO YAA RAHEEMO YAA MOQALLEBAL QOLOOBE SABBIT QALBEE A’LAA DEENEKA.
- English: O Allah! O Beneficent! O Merciful. O One who changes the hearts (of people) Give me steadfastness upon Your religion.
- Urdu: اے معبود!اے بہت رحم کرنے والے اے مہربان اے دلوں کو پلٹا دینے والے میرے دل کو اپنے دین پر ثابت رکھ۔

- Arabic: اَللّٰهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلٰى مُحَمَّدٍ وَّآلِ مُحَمَّدٍ۔
- Transliteration: ALLAHUMMA SWALLE ALAA MUHAMMADIW WA AALE MUHAMMADIN
- English: Allah’s (s.w.t) choicest blessings be upon Mohammed and his holy progeny.
- Urdu: اے معبود! رحمت نازل فرما حضرت محمدؐ اور انکی آل ؑپر۔

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Published by Fatima Zahra Imamia Centre, North Ipswich QLD, https://fzic.org.
Free to read. Where the recitation is hosted by the Centre it is credited to duas.org.