Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Mubdi’ (the Initiator)

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 مُبْدِئ ُصَلِّ على عَبْدِكَ و حَبِيبِكَ سَيِّدِنا مُحَمَّدٍ النَّبِيِّ الَّذِي ابْتَدَأْتَ بِنُورِهِ الوُجُود و على آلِهِ و صَحْبِهِ و سَلِّمْ تَسْلِيماً واعْطِنا  بِهِ مَا سَأَلْنَاكَ و ابْتَدِئْنا بِما لَمْ نَسْأَلْكَ مِنْ وَاسِعِ الجُودِ فَضْلاً و إِحْسَاناً

Allāhumma yā Allāhu yā Mubdi’u ṣalli ‘alā ‘abdika wa ḥabībika sayyidinā Muḥammad an-Nabī alladhi’btada’ta bi nūrihi’l-wujūd wa ‘alā ālihi wa ṣaḥbihi wa sallim taslīman wa’ṭinā bihi mā sa’lnāka wa’btadi’nā bimā lam nas’alka min wāsi’I’l-jūdi faḍlan wa iḥsanā

O Allāh, O Initiator of creation, bestow abundant prayers and peace upon Your slave and beloved, our Master Muḥammad, the Prophet with whose light You initiated the creation and upon his Family and Companions, and by him give us what we have asked for and what we have not asked for from Your immense generosity out of Your bounty and kindness.