Salawat with Allah’s Beautiful Names: Ya Hayy (the Living)

Sayyidi Habib Umar (may Allah preserve him and benefit us by him), asks Allah, the Living, through His Beloved ﷺ to bless us with the station of the martyrs, those who are alive in the presence of their Lord. 

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 حَيُّ صَلِّ على عَبْدِكَ و حَبِيبِكَ سَيِّدِنا مُحَمَّدٍ النَّبِيِّ الحَيِّ

و على آلِهِ و صَحْبِهِ و سَلِّمْ تَسْلِيماً واجْعَلْنا بِهِ في أَحْيَاءٍ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ يُرْزَقون

Allāhumma yā Allāhu yā Ḥayyu ṣalli ‘alā ‘abdika wa ḥabībika sayyidinā Muḥammad an-Nabī al-ḥayy wa ‘alā ālihi wa ṣaḥbihi wa sallim taslīman wa’j‘alnā bihi fī aḥyā’in ‘inda rabbihim yurzaqūn

O Allāh, O Living, bestow abundant prayers and peace upon Your slave and beloved, our Master Muḥammad, the living Prophet and upon his Family and Companions, and by him make us among those who are alive in the presence of their Lord receiving their provision.