Namaz for Seeking (divine) help.

Text and Translation

As quoted from Makarim al-Akhlaq: when you go to sleep at night, put close to the side of your head a clean vessel full of pure water, covered by a clean piece of cloth. When you wake up to offer the Night Prayer, drink three doses of that water and perform the ritual ablution (wudu') with the rest of it. Then turn your face towards the qiblah direction, recite the adhan and iqamah statements, and offer a two-unit prayer, reciting whatever Surah you would like. While genuflecting, repeat the following supplicatory statement twenty-five times:

يَا غِيَاثَ الْمُسْتَغِيْثِيْنَ

YAA GHIYAATHAL MUSTAGHEETHEEN

O Aid of those who pray for aid,

When you stand erect again after the genuflection (ruku'), repeat the same statement twenty-five times. In the two prostrations of the prayer and the position of sitting between them, repeat the same statement twenty-five times each. When you stand up for the second unit, do the same as in the first. By this, you have repeated this statement three hundred times. Finish your prayer after uttering the statements of tashahhud and taslim. Keeping yourself in the sitting position of the prayer, raise your head towards the sky and repeat the following statement thirty times:

مِنَ الْعَبْدِ الذَّلِيْلِ اِلَى الْمَوْلَى الْجَلِيْلِ

MINAL A'BDIZ ZALEELI ILAL MAWLAL JALEEL

From the abject servant to the Glorious Master.

You may then submit your request, and the response will come very shortly, by the permission of Almighty Allah.