Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Rafi’ (the One Who Raises)

This prayer is taken from Sayyidi Habib Umar bin Hafiz’s collection of prayers using Allah’s beautiful names in which he calls upon Allah by His beautiful names and then asks Him to bestow prayers upon His Beloved by those names. Finally, he asks Allah for a portion of those attributes which belong to Allah and which He has bestowed upon His Messenger ﷺ.

اللَّهُمَّ يا اللهُ يا رافِعُ صَلِّ على عَبْدِكَ و حَبِيبِكَ سَيِّدِنا مُحَمَّدٍ النَّبِيِّ الرَّافِع و على آلِهِ و صَحْبِهِ و سَلِّمْ تَسْلِيماً و ارْفَعْنِي بِهِ إلى مَرَاتِبِ قُرْبِكَ رِفْعَاً

Allāhumma yā Allāhu yā Rāfi’u ṣalli ‘alā ‘abdika wa ḥabībika sayyidinā Muḥammad an-Nabī al-Rāfi’ wa ‘alā ālihi wa ṣaḥbihi wa sallim taslīman w’arfa’nī ilā marātibi qurbika rifa’ā

O Allah, O He Who raises, bestow abundant prayers and peace upon Your slave and beloved, our Master Muhammad, the Prophet who raises others, and upon his Family and Companions, and by him raise me to the highest stations of closeness to You