Muhammad Sarwar, The Holy Quran; Arabic Text and English Translation (2011)

“O Lord, make us to follow its lawful rules and avoid violating its rules for unlawful things, apply its laws and pay its dues. O Lord, make its recitation sweet to us, give us energy to recite it at night, respect it in reading with clarity, with the ability to benefit from it in the nights and on both sides of the day.

“O Lord, satisfy us with shorter sleep, wake us up in the hour of the night from the rest of those who rest (sleep), wake us up from sleep in the time in which prayer is accepted and supplications are heard. O Lord, make our hearts intelligent in its wonderful facts that do not end, delighted in repeated reading to learn a lesson from the review of the reading, and clearly benefit to understand it. O Lord, we seek protection with You against the remaining of its meaning out of our hearts, leaving it (ignored) when we sleep and throwing it behind our backs. We seek protection with You against our hardheartedness toward Your advice for us in it.

“O Lord, benefit us from the signs You have mentioned in it, remind us of the examples You have presented therein, expiate our sins with its interpretation, increase for us the reward with it (the Holy Quran), for good deeds, raise our degrees with reward in the positions and avail us with it good news after death. O Lord, make it the supply to provide us strength in the waiting area in Your presence (for judgment), a clear path to walk toward You, beneficial knowledge to benefit from, and in thanking for Your bounties a true humility to glorify Your names; You have admitted it as evidence against us that abolishes our excuses. You have made it such a bounty for which we can never pay enough thanks.

“O Lord, make it a friend for us to keep us away from slipping (mistakes), a guide to show us the virtuous deeds, a helping guide to protect us from deviating, a support for us against the other religions until we reach our best hopes. O Lord, make it our intercessor on the day we will meet You, a weapon for the day of progress, testimony for the Day of Judgment, a light for the dark day, when there will be no earth and no sky, the day when every worker will find the result of his work. O Lord, make it for us a quenching source on the day of thirst, success on the day of receiving rewards and (a shield) against the hot fire in which there is a lack of kindness to those heated up therein with its blazing heat. O Lord, grant us privileges with the position of the martyr, living of the people of salvation, and friendship of the prophets; You hear the pleading for help.”