Supplication for Divine Light: Quranic Supplications 16

During Ramadan 2023, Sheikh Faraz Rabbani gave a series of daily video talks on supplications in the Quran. This series of articles are drawn from those talks and the related eBook. This article is about asking for Divine Light. The video series can be viewed here.

رَبَّنَآ أَتْمِمْ لَنَا نُورَنَا وَٱغْفِرْ لَنَآ ۖ إِنَّكَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدِيرٌۭ

“Our Lord, make our light consummately entire, and forgive us; Verily, You have the power to do anything.” [Quran 66:8]

This supplication serves as a reminder for us of what it is that we are seeking in this life. To exist is to have light. To have faith is to have light upon light. That light of existence, that light of faith, deserves gratitude through taking the means of completing it. How do we complete that light? We take the means through our acts of devotion. Through our doing the good for the sake of Allah. 

The completion of light is only through the One who is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth – the Source and Creator of all light. We ask Allah, “O Lord, complete for us our light,” – رَبَّنَآ أَتْمِمْ لَنَا نُورَنَا. This should encapsulate in our supplication a commitment. What am I doing in this life? I‘m striving to complete my light. Where? In the difficult choices in life.

Choose What Brings Light

Choose on the basis of that which increases you in light. Don’t make egotistical choices. Don’t make whimsical choices. Don’t make fickle choices. Make choices of light, choices of faith, choices of submission. Choices of closeness to Allah. Make the choices of one seeking the eternal good.

“O Lord, complete for us our light most fully, and forgive us.” In this commitment, like in everything else, we will fall short. وَٱغْفِرْ لَنَآ – “So forgive us.” Wipe away our sins and shortcomings. Beautify us with all that is beloved to You. إِنَّكَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ قَدِيرٌۭ – “Indeed, You have power over all things.” 

Why would that be mentioned here? Because we may fail again and again and again. But we don’t seek the light, we don’t seek Allah by our own strength and ability. Rather, we seek Him by the strength and ability of the Lord and Sustainer of the Heavens and the Earth.

So have the courage to ask, have the courage to seek, and have the certitude that He gives and He will answer you.

Praise be to Allah, Lord of all the worlds.