TRANSLITERATION AND MEANING OF HIZBUL BAHR

1. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahm. 2. Allahumma, Ya 'Aliyyu, Ya Adhmu,Ya Halmu, Ya 'Alm. 3. Anta Rabb wa 'Ilmuka Hasb. 4. Fa Ni'ma Rabbu Rabb, wa Ni'mal Hasbu Hasb. 5. Tansuru Man Tash'u wa anta al Azizur Rahm. 6. Nas'alukal 'ismata fil harakti was sakanti wal kalimati wal irdti wal khatart. 7. Minash-shukki wadh-dhunni wal awhmis stirati lil qulbi 'an mutla'atil ghybi. 8. Fa qad 'ubtuliyal mu'minna wa zulzil zilzlan shadd. 9. Wa 'idh yaqlul minfiqna wal ladhna f qulbihim maradun m wa'adan-llahu wa Rasluhu illa ghurr. 10. Fa thabbitn wansurn wa sakh-khir lan hadhl Bahr. 11. Kam sakh-khartal Bahra li Ms.

12. Wa sakh-khartan Nar li Ibrahim. 13. Wa sakh-khartal jibla wal hadda li Dwda. 14. Wa sakh-khartar rha wash shaytna wal jinna li Sulaymn. 15. Wa sakh-khartath thaqalna li Mohammedin 'alayhi salti was salm. 16. Wa sakh-khir lan kulli Bahrin huwa laka fil 'ardi was sam'i wal mulki wal malakti. 17. Wa Bahra d-Duny wa Bahral kh-khirah. 18. Wa sakh-khir lan kulli shay'in. Y man, bi ydihi malaktu kulli shay'in. 19. Kaf Ha Ya 'Ayen Sad; Kaf Ha Ya 'Ayen Sad, Kaf Ha Ya 'Ayen Sad. 20. 'Unsurn fa 'innaka khayrul ftihna. 21. Wa-f-tah lan fa 'innaka khayrul ftihn. 22. Wa-ghfir lan fa'innaka khayrul ghfirn. 23. Wa r-hamn fa'innaka khayrur Rhimn. 24. Wa r-zuqn fa'innaka khayrur Rziqn. 25. Wa h-din wa najjin minal qawmi dh-dhlimn.

26. Wa hab lan rhan tayyibatan kam hiyya f 'ilmika. 27. Wa n-shurh 'alayn min khar'ini rahmatika. 28. Wa h-miln bih hamlal karmati ma'as salmati wal 'fiyati fi d-dni wa d-duny wal khirah. 29. 'Innaka 'ala kulli shay'in Qadr. 30. Allahumma Yassir lan 'umran ma'a r-rhata li qulbin wa abdnin. 31. Wa s-salmati wal 'fiyati f duyn wa dnin. 32. Wa kun lan sahiban f safarin wa khalfatan f ahlin. 33. Wa t-tmis 'al wujhi ad'in. 34. Wa m-sakhhum 'al maknatihum fal yastat'nal mudiya wa ll maj'a ilayn. 35. Wa lau nash'u la tamasn 'al a'yunihim fstabaq sirta fa 'inn yubsirna. 36. Wa lau nash'u la masakhnhum 'al maknatihim fa m stat' mudiyan wa l yarji'na. 37. Y Sn! 38. Wal Qur'ani l-Hakm. 39. 'Innaka lamina l-mursaln.

40. 'Al Sirti m-Mustaqm 41. Tanzla l'Azz ir-Rahm 42. Li tundhira qauman m undhira 'b'uhum fahum ghfiln. 43. La qad haqqal qawlu 'al aktharihim fahum l yu'minn.

44. Inn ja'aln f aghnqihim aghllan fahiya ill adhqni fahum muqmahn. 45. Wa ja'aln min bayni aydhim saddan wa min khalfihim saddan fa aghshaynhum fahum l yubsirn. 46. Shhatil Wujhu, Shhatil Wujhu, Shhatil Wujhu. 47. Wa 'anatil wujhu lilhayyi l-qayymi wa qad khba man hamala zulm. 48. Ya Sen, Ha Mem, 'Ayen Sen Qaf 49. Marajal bahrayni yaltaqiyni baynhum barzakhun l yabghiyni.

50. Ha Mem, Ha Mem, Ha Mem, Ha Mem, Ha Mem, Ha Mem, Ha Mem

51. Hummal amru wa ja'a n-nasru fa'alayn l yunsarn.

52. Ha Mem.Tanzlul Kitbi mina-llahi l-Azizil-'Alm. 53. Ghfiri dh-dhanbi wa qbili t-tawbi shaddil 'iqbi dh ttawli. 54. L ilaha illa Huwa, ilayhil Masr. 55. Bismi-llahi bbun. 56. Tabraka htnun, 57. Ya Sen saqfuna. 58. Kaf Ha Ya 'Ayen Sad Kifyatun. 59. Ha Mem, 'Ayen Sen Qaf Himyatun.

60. Fasayakfkahumu-llahi wa huwa s-sam'ul 'Alm (3x). 61. Sitrul 'arshi masblun 'alayn. 62. Wa 'aynu-llahi nziratu ilayn. 63. Bi hawli-llahi l yuqdaru 'alayn. 64. Wa-llahu min wara'ihim muhtin. 65. Bal huwa Qur'anun Majdun, f Lawhin mahfzin. 66. F-llahu khayrun hfizan wa huwa arhamu r-rhimn (3x). 67. Inna waliyya-llahu l-ladh nazzala l-kitba, wa huwa yatawall s-slihn (3x). 68. Hasbiya-llahu l ilah illa huwa, 'alayhi tawakkaltu, wa huwa rabbu l-'arshi l-'azm (3x). 69. Bismi-llahi l-ladh l yadurru ma'a s-smmhi shayyun f lardi wa l f s-sam'I wa Huwa s-Sam'u l-'Alm (3x). 70. A'dhu bikalimti-llahi t-tmti min sharri m khalaqa (3x). 71. Wa l hawla wa l quwwata illa bi-llahi l-'aliyyu l-'azm. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

- Hizb al-Bahr (Prayer of the Sea), a unique litany made of Quranic verses and supplications, is attributed to the venerated pole Mawlana Abul Hassan Shadhili (d. 656/1241). - Sidna Shaykh, al-Qutb al-Maktum, Mawlana Ahmed ibn Mohammed Tijani al-Hassani (may Allah sanctify his secrets) had Hizb al-Bahr recited in his morning and evening wirds at the order of his grandfather (peace and blessing be upon him) who himself taught the litany to Shaykh Abul Hassan Shadhili (may Allah be pleased with him). - The litany contains the Greatest Name of Allah (al-Ism al-Aadham) and the reading of it draws forth extraordinary majestic epiphanies. Hence the disicple should receive an ijaza (licence) from his muqaddam to benefit from it. On the litany, the Shaykh Abul hassan Shadhili said, By Allah, I did not utter it except as it came from the Holy Prophet, from whose instruction I learned it. Guard it;' the Holy Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) said to me, for it contains the greatest name of Allah.' It is not recited in any place without security reigning there. If it had been with the inhabitants of Baghdad, the Tatars would not have taken the city. - On the virtues of the Hizb al-Bahr, the noted Imam of Qarawiyyine Mosque, the Shaykh Sidi Ibn Abbad ar-Rundi al-Andalusi (d. 792/1377) said, Whoever recites it every day at sunrise, Allah hears his prayer, relieves his distress, raises his standing among people, expands his breast with knowledge of the divine oneness, facilitates his concerns, lifts his hardship, keeps from him the evil of man and jinn, and protects him from the harm of mishaps of the night and day. - Further, the grand master Sidi Ahmed Zarruq al-Fasi (d. 899/1484) clarifies, As for bringing about effects with this litany, it is commensurate with ones aim and aspiration that one has command of it to draw or repel, intending what is desired when ones say, And subject to us this sea. - wa sakh-khir lan hadhl Bahr-'.

D MEANING OF HIZBUL BAHR In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Ever Merciful. Oh Allah, Oh Most High, Oh Exalted, Oh Gentle, Oh All Knowing. You are my Sustainer and Your Knowledge is my Sufficiency. How excellent a Sustainer is my Sustainer, How excellent a Sufficer is my Sufficer. You aid whom you choose and You are The All Powerful, The Mercy Bestowing. We beseech Your protection in our movements and our stillness, in our words, in our desires, and our thoughts. From the thoughts and the suspicions and the illusions that veil our hearts from the perceptions of the Unseen. And truly have the believers been tested and shaken, shaken severely (33:11) And if the hypocrites and those with doubting hearts say: Allah and His Messenger did not promise us other than delusion. (33:12) Firmly root us and support us and subjugate to us this Sea. As You subjugated the Sea to (Prophet) Moses ("Sidna Musa"; peace be upon him).
8

And You subjugated the Fire to (Prophet) Abraham ("Sidna Ibrahim"; peace be upon him). And You subjugated the Mountains and the Iron to (Prophet) David "Sidna Dawud"; peace be upon him). Wind and the Demons and the Jinns to (Prophet) Solomon ("Sidna Sulayman"; peace be upon him). And You subjugated the Humans and the Jinns to (the Holy Prophet) Sidna Mohammed (peace and blessing be upon him). So subjugate to us every Sea of Yours on the Earth, in the Skies, the Dominions and the Heavenly bodies. And the Sea of this World and the Sea of the World to come. And subjugate to us everything. Oh You! In Whose Hand in the dominion over every thing. (Quran: 19.01) (Hold the and the for six counts. Hold the a for two counts.) Aid us, for You are the best of those who Aid. And open for us, for You are the best that Opens. And forgive us, for You are the best of Forgivers. And show mercy to us for You are the best of those who show Mercy. And provide for us for You are the best of Providers. And Guide us and deliver us from the hands of the oppressors.
9

And grant us a fair wind according to Your Knowledge. Waft it upon us from the treasures of Your Mercy. Carry us by the conveyance of Your Generosity with Peace and Well Being in our spiritual life and our worldly life to come. "Surely Your are powerful over all things" (Quran 3:26). Oh my Allah! Make easy for us our situation with rest for our hearts and our bodies. And peace and well being in our worldly and spiritual lives. And be to us our Companion in our journey and Guardian of our family. Efface the faces of our enemies. Freeze them in their places so that they are unable to go or come against us. "If We willed We would have wiped out their eyes, then they would have raced to the Way, but how would they see?" (Quran 36:66). "If We willed We would have frozen them in their places, neither could they go forth or return." (Quran 36:67) (Quran 36:01; These are mystic words, and entirely beyond the reach of vocabularies). "By the Wisdom Reading" (Quran 36:02). "Truly you are from the Messengers" (Quran 36:03).

10

"On a Straight Way" (Quran 36:04). "Sent down by the All Mighty, the Mercy Bestowing" (Quran 36:05). "So that you may warn a people whose forefathers were never warned and sot they are heedless" (Quran 36:06). "The Word has been proved True by most of them yet they will not believe" (Quran 36:07). (The Word = Divine Revelation in general and Qur'an in particular.) "Behold! We have placed fetters around their necks reaching to their chins so their heads are forced up" (Quran 36:08). "And We placed before them a barrier and behind them a barrier and We shrouded them so that they do not see" (Quran 36:09). "Defaced" (Quran 20: 111) (x3). "Faces shall be humbled before The Living, The SelfSubsistent; frustrated is he who carries oppression" (Quran 20: 111) (These are mystic words, and entirely beyond the reach of vocabularies) (Hold the a and the e for six counts. Hold the a for two counts.) "He let forth the two seas that come together; between them is a barrier they do not pass" (Quran 55:19-20).

11

(These are mystic words, and entirely beyond the reach of vocabularies)[Say Ha Mem six times pointing to the right and forward, upwards and downwards, left and behind, saying internally: "By Allah all evil and catastrophe coming from these six directions is erased. By the Baraka of these letters, good comes from the six directions." Say Ha Mem the seventh time breathing into your upraised hands and then pass them across your face. At the same time imagine Ha Mem written in light within and across your breast from right to left.] The matter is decreed, Victory came, against us they shall not be victorious. "Ha Mem (These are mystic words, and entirely beyond the reach of vocabularies). The Book came down from Allah, The All Mighty, The All Knowing" (Quran 40:1-2). "Pardoner of sin, Accepter of penitence, Terrible in retribution, The Bountiful" (Quran 40:3). "No deity except Him, to Him, is the Homecoming" ( Quran40:3). "In the Name of Allah" is our door. "Chapter 67 of the Quran" is our walls. "Chapter 36 of the Quran" is our roof. "Kaf Ha Ya 'Ayen Sad" (Quran: 19.01) is our sufficiency. "Ha Mem 'Ayen Sen Qaf" is our protection.

12

"And Allah will suffice you against them and He is the All Hearing, the All Knowing" (Quran 2:137). The veil of the Throne is extended over us. The Eye of Allah beholds us. By the Power of Allah none may decree evil upon us. "And Allah, all unseen, has surrounded them" (Quran 85:20). "Truly it is a Glorious Reading, in a preserved Tablet" (Quran 85:21-2). "And Allah is the Best Protector and He is the Most Merciful Bestower of Mercy" (Quran 12:92). "Truly my Protector is Allah who sent down The Book and He protects the Righteous" (Quran 7:196) "Sufficient for me is Allah, there is no deity other than He, on Him I place my trust, He is the Lord of the Glorious Throne" ( Quran 9:129). "In the Name of Allah with whose Name no harm shall come to anything on the earth or in the skies and He is All Hearing and All Knowing" (Hadith). "I take refuge in the Perfect Words of Allah from the evil of what He created" (Hadith). "And there is no Power and no Might except with Allah, The Exalted, The Glorious" (Hadith). ----------------------------------------------------------------------

13

nd supplications, is attributed to the venerated pole Mawlana Abul Hassan Shadhili 656/1241).

ni al-Hassani (may Allah sanctify his secrets) had Hizb al-Bahr recited in his morning pon him) who himself taught the litany to Shaykh Abul Hassan Shadhili (may Allah be sed with him).

the reading of it draws forth extraordinary majestic epiphanies. Hence the disicple ) from his muqaddam to benefit from it.

ter it except as it came from the Holy Prophet, from whose instruction I learned it. e, for it contains the greatest name of Allah.' It is not recited in any place without itants of Baghdad, the Tatars would not have taken the city.

e Mosque, the Shaykh Sidi Ibn Abbad ar-Rundi al-Andalusi (d. 792/1377) said,

is distress, raises his standing among people, expands his breast with knowledge of im the evil of man and jinn, and protects him from the harm of mishaps of the night and day.

hmed Zarruq al-Fasi (d. 899/1484) clarifies,

s aim and aspiration that one has command of it to draw or repel, intending what is o us this sea. - wa sakh-khir lan hadhl Bahr-'.

14