Sayf'ul'Ulama/Hayyu Dafiu (English translation)

 My English translation of Sayf'ulUlama/Hayyu Dafiu which is a theurgic prayer used by some African and North African Sufi orders.

 

Arabic  Text

 Translation

In the Name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful!

O God! O Alive! O Peerless Self-Subsistent! O One Elevating! O Wrathful! Conquer by Thy Wrath whosoever harms me! O One Who brought Adam out of Paradise and made him to enter; and O One Who harmed Job and healed him; and O One who made enemies for Moses and saved him; and O One Who elevated Jesus to heaven; and O One Who placed Jonah in the belly of the whale and brought him out; and O One who saved Noah and his people from the deluge, save me; and O One Who stilled Abraham from the fire of Nimrod! Give me peace from every dismay, grief, anxiety, sorrow, harm, evil, lack and disease, and from every possessor of  malevolence and from all the misfortunes of this world and the hereafter, O Most Compassionate of the Mercifiers! And O One Who brought Joseph out of the [condition of the] absence of love and adorned him with goodness! O Ancient Benefactor, Thy Beneficence is primordial! O Perpetual! O Peerless Self-Subsistent! O Gracious! “Sufficient is God as aid and Protector” (Quran 3:173) “and an excellent Patron and an excellent Support” (Quran 8:40), “and Job when he cried out to his Lord, ‘I have been touched by adversity, and Thou art the Most Compassionate of Mercifiers!’ So We answered him, and removed what was afflicting him, and returned his family to him and the like thereof with them as a mercy from Us and a reminder unto the worshippers!” (Quran 21:83-4) (my trans.)