Imam Al-Sadiq’s Supplication before reciting the Holy Quran

My best buddy gave me a present recently. It was a translation of the Holy Quran that his mother bought when she went on a tour to Iran. I would like to share the translation of the supplication that Imam Al-Sadiq makes before reciting the Holy Quran:

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficient, the Merciful

O God, I implore to You to be the Witness on my declaration that this is Your scripture revealed by You to Your Apostle, Muhammad ibn Abdullah, may God bless him and his Household, that is Your speech, pronounced on the tongue of Your Prophet, whom You made Your guide for Your creatures and a tie between Yourself and Your servants.

O God, what I open is Your testament and Your epistle. O God, hallow my act of looking into it, and make my reading of it and act of contemplation, and make my contemplation therein educative. O God, make me one of those who take lesson from Your counsels and refrain from disobeying You. Do not close my inner ear as I read it, nor draw a curtain over my inner eyes. Let not my reading be one that is devoid of contemplation. Make me one who contemplates over its signs and prescriptions and follows the laws of Your religion. Let me not be negligent as I study it, nor let my recitation of it be mere babbling. Indeed, You are the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful.

Ameen.