First day of the month of Ramadhan

O Allah: O He Who controls the management of all affairs;

and He has power over all things.

O He Who knows the stealth of looks

and that which breasts conceal and that which selves hide;

and He is the Knower of subtleties, the Aware.

O Allah: (please do) include us with those who intend and carried out their intentions;

and do not include us with those who are unhappy due to their laziness

or with those who depend upon unreal hopes.

O Allah: (please do) cure our bodies from ailments

and help us carry out the deeds that You have made incumbent upon us to do

so that when this month, which is Your month, elapses, we shall have carried out all the duties that You have made obligatory upon us to do.

O Allah: (please do) help us observe fasting in this month;

and guide us to practice the acts of worship (perfectly);

and grant us vigor to offer prayers;

and do not preclude us from reciting (the Holy Qur’an);

and make easy for us to give alms.

O Allah: (please) do not inflict us with fatigue, tiredness,

ailment, or injury.

O Allah: (please do) grant us the food with which we break our fasting from Your sustenance that is legally gotten.

O Allah: (please do) make easy for us the gaining of Your sustenance that You decide for us;

and facilitate for us Your act that You decide for us;

and make it pure, empty of sins,

and free from offenses and flaws.

O Allah: (please) do not feed us except the good that is neither bad nor forbidden;

and (please do) make the sustenance that You decide for us be legal, carrying neither filth nor diseases.

O He Who knows the secret in the same way as He knows the public;

O He Who confers upon His servants with benevolence;

O He Who has power over all things

and has acquaintance with all things;

(please do) bestow upon us with (ceaseless) reference to You;

and keep us away Your difficulty;

and make us obtain Your ease;

and guide us to the right path;

and lead us to the righteousness;

and protect us against misfortunes;

and safeguard us against sins and faults.

O He save Whom none forgives the grave sins

and He save Whom none can relieve from hardships;

O the most Merciful of all those who show mercy

and the most Generous of all those who show generosity;

(please do) send blessings upon Muhammad and his Household—the pure;

and decide our fasting as acceptable

and as connected to piety and godliness.

And, similarly, (please do) decide our efforts as praiseworthy,

our acts of worship as admissible,

our reciting of the Qur’an as raised (to the heavens),

and our supplications as responded.

And (please do) guide us to the most excellent way;

and save us from difficulties;

and facilitate for us the easy end;

and elevate our ranks;

and double the rewards for our good deeds;

and accept our fasting and prayers;

and react to our supplications;

and forgive our sins;

And overlook our wrongdoings

and make us of the successful worshippers;

and do not include us with those who earn Your anger nor of those who go astray,

so that when the month of Ramadhan elapses,

You shall have accepted our fasting and acts of worship,

blessed our deeds,

forgiven our sins,

and doubled our shares from all good things.

Verily, You are the God Who responds,

the Lord Who is Nigh,

and You encompass all things.

It is recommended to say the following supplication reported from Imam Ja`far al-Sadiq (a.s) as is mentioned in the book of ‘al-Iqbal’:

O Allah, the Lord of the month of Ramadhan,

the Revealer of the Qur’an

This is the month of Ramadhan

in which You revealed the Qur’an

And revealed therein chapters of true guidance and distinction (between the right and the wrong).

O Allah: make us observe fast in its days

and remain awake in its nights to pray.

O Allah: let it be peaceful for us,

keep us in sound condition for it,

let it take upon itself the supervision of our affairs to give us ease and well-being

and while taking decisions,

From among Your inevitable decisions

And from among that which You decide from the wise affairs,

At the Grand Night

From the act that is neither rejected nor altered,

write my name in the list of those pilgrims of Your Sacred House

whose pilgrimage receives Your approval,

whose efforts are appreciated,

whose sins are forgiven,

whose wrongdoings are overlooked,

and while making decisions and rendering possible things and events

make possible for me long life,

and enough lawful means of livelihood.