Dua Before Dying

Hazrat Abu Bakr said upon his death bed, whomsoever says certain words before dying, God shall set his spirit on the Clear Horizon. What is the Clear Horizon? they asked, and he replied, A vale which lies before the Throne. In it lie the Garden of God, and rivers and trees. A hundred mercies cover it each day. God shall set in this place the spirit of whomsoever says these words: O Lord God! Truly You did create mankind, although You had no need of them. The You did render them two parties: a party for bliss, and a party for the Blaze. Make me, therefore, of the former party. O Lord God! Truly You did create humanity in groups, and divided them before their creation. From them did You appoint the damned and the saved, the strayer and the rightly guided. Do not damn me through acts of disobedience to You! O Lord God! Truly You knew what every soul would acquire before creating it; no escape has it from that which You have known. Render me, therefore, amongst those You make to act in obedience to You. O Lord God! No-one may wish for anything until You have willed it to transpire. So make it Your will that You decree that which brings me closer to You. O Lord God! You have determined the movements of Your bondsmen; nothing moves save by Your leave. Make, then, my movements to be in piety to You. O Lord God! Truly You have created good and evil, and appointed men who act by each. Make me, therefore, of the better party. O Lord God! Truly You did create Heaven and Hell, and appoint people for each of them. Make me, then, of the dwellers in Your Heaven. O Lord God! Truly You did will misguidance for some people, constricting with it their breasts. Open, then, my breast to faith, and adorn with it my heart. O Lord God! Truly You have disposed all things, making their final destiny unto Yourself. Raise me up. Then, after my death into goodly life, and grant me great nearness to You. O Lord God! Despite he whose hope and trust, morning and night is not in You, still You are my hope and trust. No power is there, and no strength, save in God.

(Taken from Book XL The Remembrance of Death and Afterlife of The Revival of the Religious Sciences translated by T.J. Winter)