كُلُّ دُعَاءٍ لَا يَكُونُ قَبْلَهُ تَحْمِيدٌ فَهُوَ أَبْتَرُ إِنَّمَا التَّحْمِيدُ ثُمَّ الثَّنَاءُ قُلْتُ مَا أَدْرِي مَا يُجْزِي مِنَ التَّحْمِيدِ وَ التَّمْجِيدِ قَالَ يَقُولُ اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ الْأَوَّلُ فَلَيْسَ قَبْلَكَ شَيْءٌ وَ أَنْتَ الْآخِرُ فَلَيْسَ بَعْدَكَ شَيْءٌ وَ أَنْتَ الظَّاهِرُ فَلَيْسَ فَوْقَكَ شَيْءٌ وَ أَنْتَ الْبَاطِنُ فَلَيْسَ دُونَكَ شَيْءٌ وَ أَنْتَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ali Bin Hassan, from one of his companions, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Every supplication which does not happen to have a Praise before it, so it is cut-off. But rather, it is the Praise, then the Laudation’. I said, ‘What I don’t know is, what would suffice me from the Praise and the Glorification’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘One should be saying, ‘O Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! You<sup>azwj</sup> are the Foremost, so there was nothing before You<sup>azwj</sup>, and You<sup>azwj</sup> are the Last, so there will be nothing after You<sup>azwj</sup>, and You<sup>azwj</sup> are the Manifest, so there is nothing above You<sup>azwj</sup>, and You<sup>azwj</sup> are the Hidden, so there is nothing besides You<sup>azwj</sup>, and You<sup>azwj</sup> are the Mighty, the Wise’’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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